Sublime

O Eu penso é o princípio mais geral da representação, isto é, a fonte desses elementos e a unidade de todas essas faculdades: eu concebo, eu julgo, eu imagino e me recordo, eu percebo – como os quatro ramos do Cogito. E, precisamente sobre esses ramos, é crucificada a diferença. Quádruplo cambão, em que só pode ser pensado como diferente o que é

“You are what you think” is a motto that reduces human beings to brains-on-a-stick. Ironically, such thinking-thingism assumes that the “heart” of the person is the mind. “I think, therefore I am,” Descartes said, and most of…

I am, therefore I think.

Having now secured a firm foundation, Descartes sets to work to rebuild the edifice of knowledge. The I that has been proved to exist has been inferred from the fact that I think, therefore I exist while I think, and only then. If I ceased to think, there would be no evidence of my existence. I am a thing that thinks, a substance of which the whole

In philosophy, there is the famous statement “I think, therefore I am”—translated from the original Latin text, “Cogito, ergo sum.” However, with regard to tribes and congregations, it’s more like “I am, therefore I do.”