cogito, ergo sum (English spelling) cogitoergosum

Japanese: cogito,ergo sum(英語表記)cogitoergosum
cogito, ergo sum (English spelling) cogitoergosum

…Cogito was originally just the first person singular form of the Latin word cogitare, which means to think or be conscious, but today it implies self-consciousness and is associated with the position of trying to see the essence of the mind and ego in self-consciousness. In Descartes' Discourse on Method (1637), he started from a methodical doubt, which is to doubt everything in order to discover an absolutely indubitable truth, and as a result arrived at the proposition "I think, therefore I am" ("I must be something because I think"), which he called "the first principle of philosophy" ("cogito ergo sum" is the Latin translation of the proposition). Since then, various discussions have been held up to the present day regarding the relationship between the mind, ego, and cogito. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "cogito, ergo sum" are listed below.

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Japanese:

…コギトはもともと〈考える〉とか〈意識する〉という意味のラテン語cogitareの一人称単数形にすぎないが,今日ではむしろ〈自己意識〉を含意し,精神や自我の本質を自己意識に見ようとする立場と結びつけて語られる。かつてデカルトが《方法叙説》(1637)の中で,絶対不可疑の真理を発見すべく,まずあらゆるものを疑ってみるという〈方法的懐疑〉から出発し,その結果〈そう考えている私は何ものかでなければならぬ〉として〈われ思う,ゆえにわれ在りJe pense,donc je suis〉の命題に到達し,これを〈哲学の第一原理〉と呼んだことに由来する(コギト・エルゴ・スムcogito,ergo sumはその命題のラテン語訳)。以来,精神や自我とコギトとのかかわりをめぐってさまざまな論議が戦わされて今日に至っている。…

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