Cogito, ergo Sum

# [My Youthful Rebellion Against Descartes] “I Am, Therefore I Think?”Between 1971 and 1973, when I was a high school student, books and philosophical texts were scarcer than gold in Korea. To quench my intellectual thirst, I used to wake up before dawn to stand in a long, freezing line at the Busan City Public Library just to get a daily admission ticket. In that dim reading room, far before I ..

cogito, ergo sum, (Latin: “I think, therefore I am) dictum coined by the French mathematician and philosopher René Descartes in his Discourse on Method (1637) as a first step in demonstrating the attainability of certain knowledge. It is the only statement to survive the test of his methodic doubt. The statement is indubitable, as Descartes argued in the second of his six Meditations on First P..