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' Cogito ergo sum.' (' I think; therefore I am.') " Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men , after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ." It is generally accepted that 'the father
of modern philosophy' is, Rene Descartes. It is
Descartes who coined the phrase: 'I think, therefore
I am '. His original statement was: The father of modern philosophy is reaffirming the credo of natural man: 'I exist, because I am not sure of anything'. For any person to say: 'Because I doubt, I exist', can only mean one thing; the person is not sure that he exists. This is the mindset of natural man. 'I think, therefore I am', translated into reality means: ' I doubt, therefore I am(exist), I am not(I do not exist).' This is the nature of the duality of the irrational mindset. In his book " Irrational man."
William Barrett writes the following: ' By doubting
all things Descartes arrived at a single
certainty:
the existence of his own consciousness '.
This statement that Barrett makes, makes
no sense at all. Descartes cannot doubt 'all
things', and then be certain of his own
existence. This means he excludes himself
from 'all things'. Descartes is saying: 'all
things', are 'not all things', 'A is not-A' , a contradiction.
In view of the above, it is not surprising that Descartes separated 'mind' from 'matter'. This dualism is the philosophy of natural man, in contrast we have the message according to the Gospel, the philosophy of spiritual man.
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