Cogito ergo sum. Descartes famous words. What do they actually mean to us?

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#541 gorski, Dec 29, 2021
It's more Human, though, to try to control yourself in such situations... Otherwise known as "being civilised"...

Or you have a better solution? Like "let it rip, kill 'em all"?!?
"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's own understanding without the guidance of another. This immaturity is self-incurred if its cause is not lack of understanding, but lack of resolution and courage to use it without the guidance of another." I. Kant, "What is Enlightenment" in "Political writings" (1784) - the basis of Modernity...

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