Yap Lee Posted October 7, 2001 Share Posted October 7, 2001 Tony, Can you write everything, please?!? Since I'm Asian , and my place does not have this book! YOU WROTE on " Smart VS Intelligence" before for someone : " I think, therefore I am " Rene Descartes, philosopher, in Discourse on the Method" published in 1637 In the Mediation (1641), the cononical phrase does not occur, but Descartes argues instead that " I am, I exist is is certain as often as it is put forward or conveived in the mind" . Descartes later observed that mediator's indubitable awareness of his own existence was " recognized as self-evident by a simple intuition of the mind" .There is a partial anticipation of Descartes's Cogito in Augustine, De Civitate Dei, 11.26 On the other hand, philosopher Immanuel Kant Advanced the opposit, Sum Ergo Cogito..I am, therefore i think. Link to post Share on other sites
Tony T Posted October 7, 2001 Share Posted October 7, 2001 I'm not quite sure what you are wanting here. I think you have given a compelling argument that one could assume that a summation of Descartes' theory in that particular work is: "I think, therefore I am" whether it was actually written that way or not. Personally, my position is: "I eat, therefore I am." Link to post Share on other sites
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