Word: cogito
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...each other, and fragments of self-taught Shakespeare are swept by the currents alongside recollections of patricide. It is here that Day exposes his full self to scrutiny. All is bared: his torturous conception of love, his conflicted feelings about his low class origins, his insatiable desire to learn. Cogito, ergo sum: And so from Day’s thoughts, a human being is born. Profoundly violent (apparently his sole solution to interpersonal disputes is his fist), he is also profoundly sensitive and reflective. And, while hesitant to admit it, Day is intellectual. Day is full of self-loathing...
...then one day I had what we hotshot English majors call an “epiphany.” Don’t we all live in a bubble? Isn’t that what Descartes meant by cogito, ergo sum? And didn’t the poet John Donne say that every man is a bubble unto himself? What makes one bubble more privileged than another...
What I mean is that a professional football game is the mutation of inert muscle (noun) into pure historicized act (verb), framed in a matrix ("gridiron") of time and space. At the precise pencil-point of time, the quarterback's cogito presses urgently upon the possibilities of the unthought...
...arose. Finally, in the 17th century, the French philosopher Rena Descartes declared that the mind, while it might live in the brain, was a nonmaterial thing, entirely separate from the physical tissues found inside the head. Furthermore, said Descartes in one of history's most memorable sound bites, "Cogito, ergo sum" (I think, therefore I am). His point: consciousness is the only sure evidence that we actually exist...
...modern world. The conflict boils down to different paths of reason and standards of truth. In Crossing the Threshold of Hope, John Paul locates the source of the great schism between faith and logic in the writings of the 17th century French philosopher Rene Descartes, particularly his assertion "Cogito ergo sum" (I think; therefore I am). The Pope points out that Descartes's formulation turned on its head St. Thomas Aquinas' 13th century pronouncement that existence comes before thought -- indeed, makes thought possible. Descartes could presumably have written "Sum ergo cogito," but then the history of the past 300 years...