This first blog brings back great memories

Sitting down to write this blog brings back some old memories from the days of honors past. This time I'm going to actually do the reading though.

First of all I want all of you to know that Descartes is one of my favorite philosophers. I fell in love with his work last year during PY 101. He made me rethink everything that I ever thought I knew about thinking. Rereading it this year brought back the memories of the completely forgetting everything I knew about thinking.

After I read this passage I set down in an attempt to remove all of my biases that I have developed over the span of my life. I found it impossible to remove all of them. Some of the things that I have been taught at a young age I found it impossible to look past now. I found it was easy to doubt some things through systematic logic. I could doubt that I was actually awake and that my body as a whole actually exists. I then tried to doubt my mind and that is impossible. I tried to and found that the only way to know that I exist is through the thought process. This lines up with the thinking of Descartes when he says, "cogito ergo sum." Which everyone knows but I'll translate anyways, "I think therefore I am." This is the opposite view of one of my professors at the school who says that, "He is therefore he thinks." I found it a fairly comical view especially since it's a pun on Descartes who we are reading at the same time as he told us this.

-Lane

P.S. I commented on Katelyn Osborne's blog