Jy’t seker al afgelei ek hou van dink, van filosofeer-dink, van Descartes se dink.
Nou, ou Descartes het hierdie stelling gemaak in ‘n tyd toe die eksistensialisme-debat hoogty gevier het; in sy Discourse on Method (1637). Sy argument het gegaan oor die non-existence van alle dinge? En so gaan hy toe voort: “Does it now follow that I too do not exist? No: if I convinced myself of something then I certainly existed. But there is a deceiver of supreme power and cunning who is deliberately and constantly deceiving me. In that case I too undoubtedly exist, if he is deceiving me; and let him deceive me as much as he can, he will never bring it about that I am nothing so long as I think that I am something.”1 So kom Descartes toe by cogito ergo sum, want reken hy, al sou iemand my probeer mislei dat ek my misgis en eintlik nie bestaan nie, sou ek in elk geval moes bestaan om so mislei te kan word. So as jy wonder of jy bestaan, bestaan jy want jy wonder daaroor… “the very act of doubting one’s own existence serves as proof of the reality of one’s own existence“.
Lekker né? Dis hoekom ek hou van filosfeer; van partykeer sommer net nonsens praat!
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