If you don't know what the Cogito is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogito_Ergo_Sum
2007-03-01 03:30:49 · 18 answers · asked by Theophile 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Many of you took a defensive approach in your response. Don't. I'm hear to learn, not to attack or condescend. This is an was an honest question.
2007-03-01 03:37:37 · update #1
Why would we hate it?
Oh, by the way... it's been proven to be logically erroneous as well. Though it was a good try, lasted 300 years. Jean Paul Sartre managed to show, via what eventually morphed into the 'brain in a jar' scenario, that it does not hold.
2007-03-01 03:37:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I can not speak for atheist or agnostic sentiment as I don't share these thoughts but I most assuredly detest the cogito. It is the great lie that allows the illusion; the duality, to persist. To think is not to be, mere awareness does not qualify as existence in the multitude. Only the singular exists, all else is but splinters from this, shadows and dreams, albiet persistant but still mere fragments and reflections of the One.
2007-03-01 12:09:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dubito ergo cogito, cogito ergo sum.
Super, I'm "here" to teach so you would most likely get the same response if you asked if we liked the scientific method or pork. It is just a bit of an odd question.
2007-03-01 12:11:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If someone don't know what the Cogito is then how can they detest it?
I am, therefor I think.
2007-03-01 11:35:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Trying to figure out why we would detest it...
Oh yeah, after it tears down reality to the foundation, it tries to build it up again with God. I read that as a freshman. I didn't think he did a very good job of necessarily inserting God.
2007-03-01 11:38:20 · answer #5 · answered by vehement_chemical 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Why would we?
We generally don't detest things nearly as much as religious people do, especially different schools of thought.
2007-03-01 11:35:28 · answer #6 · answered by JP 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cogito is latin for "I think".
Thus translated, your question becomes
"Do atheists, agnostics detest the I think"
2007-03-01 11:43:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I was unaware that people had mad this into a creed, interesting. Not sure that he wasn't doing more than tieing himself into mental knots though.
But detest, no.
2007-03-01 11:38:06 · answer #8 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why would we detest it? We may *protest* it's use in theological arguments for god... but, other than that... it's one more existential and semantic idea to play with...
2007-03-01 11:36:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't. I don't consider it to be a particularly useful line of reasoning, but I don't have a problem with it.
2007-03-01 11:34:12 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋