LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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Voltair
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Socrates
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Aristotle
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Descartes
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Detailed explanation-1: -cogito, ergo sum, (Latin: “I think, therefore I am) dictum coined by the French mathematician and philosopher René Descartes in his Discourse on Method (1637) as a first step in demonstrating the attainability of certain knowledge. It is the only statement to survive the test of his methodic doubt .
Detailed explanation-2: -René Descartes (1596–1650) was a French philosopher and mathematician, credited as a foundational thinker in the development of Western notions of reason and science.
Detailed explanation-3: -Doubt and Skepticism The phrase “I think, therefore I am” first appears in Discourse on the Method (1637). But Descartes changes the wording to “I am, I exist” in his most famous (1641) work, Meditations on First Philosophy (called the Meditations for short).
Detailed explanation-4: -René Descartes is most commonly known for his philosophical statement, “I think, therefore I am” (originally in French, but best known by its Latin translation: “Cogito, ergo sum”).
Detailed explanation-5: -I act therefore I am: identity and performance in Shakespeare’s Hamlet.