{"id":242,"date":"2010-10-13T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T14:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=242"},"modified":"2013-08-28T18:39:03","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T22:39:03","slug":"analects-of-the-core-181","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2010\/10\/13\/analects-of-the-core-181\/","title":{"rendered":"Analects of the Core: Descartes on questioning existence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CC201 students will soon be discussing one of the foundations of Western discussions of knowledge, relying on the fact that the mind necessarily exists if it can question its own existence:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Cogito ergo sum.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think, therefore I am.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; Ren\u00e9 Descartes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Descartes-Discourse-Meditations-Laurence-Lafleur\/dp\/0023672609\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1286913726&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">Discourse on Methods and Meditations<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read up some more context for Descartes and his philosophy on the <a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/descartes-epistemology\/\">Stanford philosophy website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CC201 students will soon be discussing one of the foundations of Western discussions of knowledge, relying on the fact that the mind necessarily exists if it can question its own existence: Cogito ergo sum. &#8220;I think, therefore I am.&#8221; &#8211; Ren\u00e9 Descartes, Discourse on Methods and Meditations Read up some more context for Descartes and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3691],"tags":[3915,3934,3937,3936,3935],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2929,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/2929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}