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Contains first use of the phrase cogito ergo sum.'
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed MICHAEL POSNER 2011
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Some philosophers even claim that the phrase cogito ergo sum is a syllogistic inference , as it appears to require extra premise.
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This is why, for Lacan, not only is the cogito not to be reduced to the self-transparency of pure thought, but, paradoxically, the cogito is the subject of the unconscious - the gap/cut in the order of Being in which the Real of jouissance breaks through.
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This is why, for Lacan, not only is the cogito not to be reduced to the self-transparency of pure thought, but, paradoxically, the cogito is the subject of the unconscious - the gap/cut in the order of Being in which the Real of jouissance breaks through.
enowning enowning 2009
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There is no detached Cartesian 'cogito' from which we look out upon the world.
Speedlinking 6/5/07 William Harryman 2007
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I find the clarification from 'cogito' useful and also a better formulation than the earlier one.
The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe 2009
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You're of course right that there is a similarity with Descartes 'cogito.
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Cognition and emotion, thinking and feeling, interpreting and relating -- these are separable only in pathology, as can be seen in the case of Descartes himself, the profoundly isolated man who created a doctrine of the isolated mind, of disembodied, unembedded, decontextualized cogito.
Robert D. Stolorow: What Is Character and How Does it Change? Robert D. Stolorow 2012
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Cognition and emotion, thinking and feeling, interpreting and relating -- these are separable only in pathology, as can be seen in the case of Descartes himself, the profoundly isolated man who created a doctrine of the isolated mind, of disembodied, unembedded, decontextualized cogito.
Robert D. Stolorow: What Is Character and How Does it Change? Robert D. Stolorow 2012
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But notice the huge difference: Rand takes the existence of the physical world as obvious, while Descartes has a tortured argument deducing the existence of the physical world from the cogito.
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