Cogitatio

Japanese: cogitatio
Cogitatio

…This conscientia becomes the English word conscience (conscience) and the French word conscience (consciousness), and even in German, it is said that it was only with C. Wolf in the 18th century that Bewusstsein (consciousness) became independent from the old form Gewissen. The particularly modern meaning of the word consciousness is thought to be in (2) above, but it can be said that its establishment began with Descartes (although he often used the word cogitatio). When he defined the mind as "thinking (res cogitans)," the cogito was nothing other than self-consciousness. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "cogitatio" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…このconscientiaが英語のconscience(良心)やフランス語のconscience(意識)になるわけであるが,ドイツ語でも,古形のGewissenからBewusstsein(意識)が独立したのは,やっと18世紀のC.ウォルフからであるという。 意識という語のとくに近代的な意味は上述の(2)にあると考えられるが,その確立はデカルトとともに始まったと言ってよい(彼は多くはコギタティオcogitatioという語を使ったが)。彼が精神を〈考えるもの(レス・コギタンス)〉と規定したとき,そのコギトとは自己意識にほかならなかったからである。…

※「cogitatio」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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