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I think, therefore I know. [Edited.]
All inquiry in modern philosophy unavoidably begins with Descartes, the father of modern philosophy according to Bertrand Russell.
Cogito ergo sum, I think therefore I am.
To this I myself would add: Cogito ergo cognito, I think therefore I know. [edited.]
Thus by thinking we not only validate our own individual existence, but we also come to understand the Universe around ourselves as well.
To validate the existences of those other things around us -- other animals like and unlike ourselves as well as the plants, streams, rivers, lakes, seas and oceans, deserts, forests, hills, mountains, land, sky, clouds, rain, wind, lightning, and shooting stars (meteors) -- we must give them due credit aesthetically and romantically.
Aesthetically they are all beautiful. It therefore looks like they have all been designed and created with a purpose by an Artist.
Romantically they can each make us feel happiness or pain -- some can even kill us. Thus we must take them all seriously or else we as fools not doing so will die. Thus they also exist because they can terminate our own physical existence.
And my one favorite religious proverb (a psalm) is reconstituted as follows --
Yay though I walk thru the valley of the shadow of death I fear no evil,
For there is nothing on this Earth that I cannot kill.
(Thus there is a little of Machiavelli and Nietzsche in all of us, especially me -- not just Descartes.)
All inquiry in modern philosophy unavoidably begins with Descartes, the father of modern philosophy according to Bertrand Russell.
Cogito ergo sum, I think therefore I am.
To this I myself would add: Cogito ergo cognito, I think therefore I know. [edited.]
Thus by thinking we not only validate our own individual existence, but we also come to understand the Universe around ourselves as well.
To validate the existences of those other things around us -- other animals like and unlike ourselves as well as the plants, streams, rivers, lakes, seas and oceans, deserts, forests, hills, mountains, land, sky, clouds, rain, wind, lightning, and shooting stars (meteors) -- we must give them due credit aesthetically and romantically.
Aesthetically they are all beautiful. It therefore looks like they have all been designed and created with a purpose by an Artist.
Romantically they can each make us feel happiness or pain -- some can even kill us. Thus we must take them all seriously or else we as fools not doing so will die. Thus they also exist because they can terminate our own physical existence.
And my one favorite religious proverb (a psalm) is reconstituted as follows --
Yay though I walk thru the valley of the shadow of death I fear no evil,
For there is nothing on this Earth that I cannot kill.
(Thus there is a little of Machiavelli and Nietzsche in all of us, especially me -- not just Descartes.)
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