cogito

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• The emphasis on rational thought in our culture is epitomized in Descartes's celebrated statement "Cogito, ergo sum" -- "I think, therefore I exist" -- which forcefully encouraged Western individuals to equate their identity with their rational mind rather than with their whole organism.

  Academic text (1993)

• In Sartor Resartus, then, the cogito is not a speculative proposition; it is an action and a moral action.

  Academic text (1997)

• This is often talked about in terms of a famous formula which shows up in other works, Cogito Ergo sum.

• In its attempt to achieve full self-consciousness, the cogito is limited by two paradoxes.

  Academic text (2001)

• 2) We follow Descartes back to the Cogito and observe that I think, therefore I am a thinking thing, at least.

  Blog text (2)

• I've read a little, and everything beyond "Cogito ergo sum" gives me a headache.

  Blog text (25)

• Cogito ergo sum.

  American Wedding (2003)

• But he overlooks another insight that is at least as important: that every time the cogito demonstrates its existence, it also demonstrates the priority of being over knowing.

  Academic text (2001)

• Thus Kant, building on his empiricist predecessors, drew out the epistemological consequences of the Cartesian cogito.

  Academic text (1990)

• Many philosophy students explore the concept of cogito in their introductory courses.

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