socrates said i think therefore i am quote.
who said i think therefore i am quote?
socrates
since the european enlightenment, the western philosophy has placed the individual, as an indispensable category, at the center of the universe. rené descartes' famous aphorism, 'i think therefore i am' proves that a person is a rational subject whose feature of thinking brings the human into existence. the cartesian subject, therefore, is a scientific individual who imposes mental concepts on things in order to control the nature or simply what exists outside his mind. this subject-centered view of the universe has reduced the complex nature of the universe. one of the biggest challenges for system theory is thus to displace or de-center the cartesian subject as a center of a universe and as a rational being. the idea is to make human beings not a supreme entity but rather to situate them as any other being in the universe. the humans are not thinking cartesian subject but they dwell alongside nature. this brings back the human to its original place and introduces nature in the equation. the systems theory, therefore, encourages a non-unitary subject in opposition to a cartesian subject.
systems theory in anthropology
if we accept the fact that they were above the second step, they would have seemed to be incredibly close to the summit of everest and i think at that stage something takes hold of most climbers ... and i think therefore taking all those circumstances in view ... i think it is quite conceivable that they did go for the summit ... i certainly would love to think that they actually reached the summit of everest. i think it is a lovely thought and i think it is something, you know, gut emotion, yes i would love them to have got there. whether they did or not, i think that is something one just cannot know.
george mallory