Yeah I don't know what you think is going on. I couldn't understand why of what you wrote or how it related to Descartes
Descartes is looking for something indubitable. He knows that while he's consciously thinking, doubting, perceiving he exists. It makes no sense to doubt ones existence.
The meditations is written for people to follow . It's an actual meditation
I feel like Descartes' cogito thing could also be taken, not as a so-called proof of selfhood, but rather as pointing to the process by which a sense of selfhood happens - the thoughts constantly suggesting the existence of a thinker.
"In terms of sheer philosophical stupidity and hubris, there is no greater representative than Descartes’ famous dictum Cogito, ergo sum. Translated to, I think, therefore I am, this phrase not only stands as an abject lie, but is, in its progression, inherently self-defeating.
It’s quite simple, for the statement I think, therefore I am, to be thought—or more aptly, to arise as a thought—being had to already be. Amness, being, isn’t predicated on thought; it just Is. For the statement to even begin (let alone get to its end) with the word I, being has to be there already, for this thought of what it is to Be to be altogether, there has to be Being already. You are, then thoughts arise. The thought ‘I see’ doesn’t see. The thought ‘I hear’ doesn’t hear. The thought ‘I am’ isn’t Being."
You just talked a lot of crap here. Maybe you haven't read Descartes
Where is the misstep? Cartesian doubt reduced everything to that which is undoubtable for Descartes, the fact he is thinking (existing). But, existing and thinking are different. Thinking is the description that is after the fact of Being.
One could argue that the act of thinking is seemingly synonymous with Being itself, but thats incorrect considering one can just Be. Thinking is required for communication (and therein communicating that one is), but not for Being itself.
Yeah I don't know what you think is going on. I couldn't understand why of what you wrote or how it related to Descartes
Descartes is looking for something indubitable. He knows that while he's consciously thinking, doubting, perceiving he exists. It makes no sense to doubt ones existence.
The meditations is written for people to follow . It's an actual meditation
I feel like Descartes' cogito thing could also be taken, not as a so-called proof of selfhood, but rather as pointing to the process by which a sense of selfhood happens - the thoughts constantly suggesting the existence of a thinker.
"In terms of sheer philosophical stupidity and hubris, there is no greater representative than Descartes’ famous dictum Cogito, ergo sum. Translated to, I think, therefore I am, this phrase not only stands as an abject lie, but is, in its progression, inherently self-defeating.
It’s quite simple, for the statement I think, therefore I am, to be thought—or more aptly, to arise as a thought—being had to already be. Amness, being, isn’t predicated on thought; it just Is. For the statement to even begin (let alone get to its end) with the word I, being has to be there already, for this thought of what it is to Be to be altogether, there has to be Being already. You are, then thoughts arise. The thought ‘I see’ doesn’t see. The thought ‘I hear’ doesn’t hear. The thought ‘I am’ isn’t Being."
You just talked a lot of crap here. Maybe you haven't read Descartes
Where is the misstep? Cartesian doubt reduced everything to that which is undoubtable for Descartes, the fact he is thinking (existing). But, existing and thinking are different. Thinking is the description that is after the fact of Being.
One could argue that the act of thinking is seemingly synonymous with Being itself, but thats incorrect considering one can just Be. Thinking is required for communication (and therein communicating that one is), but not for Being itself.