Question

Which answer represents a central idea from Descartes?

Answer 1

Rene Descartes is actually a known mathematician and philosopher and is even dubbed as the "Father of Modern Philosophy". According to him, his main idea focuses on "I think, therefore I am." This statement is translated from his Latin philosophical preposition "Cogito ergo sum". The answer to this would be the second option.

Answer 2

The answer is B: I think therefore I am.

Descartes is best known for this argument that he develops in his Discourse on the method. In this book, the French philosopher is concerned with reaching a proposition that would be indubitable and from which philosophy could aspire to build a form of knowledge that would be certain. As it goes, Descartes came to the conclusion that he could doubt everything except the fact that he was doubting. If such was the case, then one could be certain that, if one doubts, one is thinking, therefore, one must exist or be something (a thinking thing): I think, therefore I am.