Cogito Ergo Sum..
That has been a part of my official work signature for almost two years. It is a Latin phrase and most people are not familiar with it. It is the part of my mails that arouses a lot of curiosity, my colleagues often ask me what does it mean, where does it come from?
To come clean to all the curious ones and to put forth the rationale behind the name of this blog, i would like to discuss this phrase in my inaugural post.
Cogito Ergo Sum, is a Latin phrase by the French philosopher Rene Descartes. According to Wikipedia encyclopedia, the phrase translates to "I think, therefore I am" in English, but can be less ambiguously translated as "I am thinking, therefore I exist". The philosophy tries to find proof of our existence in our ability to think.
My view is a bit different. Let me begin by saying that what makes man different from the beast is its ability to think and act. Had we, as a species, been driven for the sole purpose of survival, we would have been like the countless others that exist on Earth. But even though we have earned this gift from our anscestors through a process of evolution, the choice of using it or not still lies with us as individuals.
We go about our daily lives, our daily routines, our jobs, our schools, our movies, our restaurants.
But it is only now and then do we actually stop to think, really think about our sorroundings, the environment we are living in, the people we are working with, the kind of life we are living., the stuff that really makes a difference to us. We are supposed to be working to make a living, but somehow, we have ended up living to work. A lot of times we do think, but do not act, give ideas but do not implement it. Why is it so? Does it matter then if we can "think"?
Living is easy, just keep doing what everyone is doing and in 70 years you are home free, gone. But would such an existence made any difference? Would it matter that you spent a lifetime amongst the human race? Can this be called "existing"? Think about it.
That is what I like about the phrase, it makes people think and act. It is my very own subtle experiment. When people read the phrase, they become curious, they start thinking, they ask or look the phrase up. They read about it and a few understand that it is their ability to think that makes them exist.
I have another blog, tlasic.blogspot.com. I used to maintain it regularly till 2007 when I started working. It was a platform on which I would address issues, about which I felt strongly, to the public and, more importantly, to myself. It was an implementation of my think and act policy. But in 2007 I stopped writing.
The past 2 years have been a kind of void. I would feel, but I would not do. I would think, but I would not act. I did not exist for the past two years and with this post and blog, I am reborn. Hence the name reborn.
That has been a part of my official work signature for almost two years. It is a Latin phrase and most people are not familiar with it. It is the part of my mails that arouses a lot of curiosity, my colleagues often ask me what does it mean, where does it come from?
To come clean to all the curious ones and to put forth the rationale behind the name of this blog, i would like to discuss this phrase in my inaugural post.
Cogito Ergo Sum, is a Latin phrase by the French philosopher Rene Descartes. According to Wikipedia encyclopedia, the phrase translates to "I think, therefore I am" in English, but can be less ambiguously translated as "I am thinking, therefore I exist". The philosophy tries to find proof of our existence in our ability to think.
My view is a bit different. Let me begin by saying that what makes man different from the beast is its ability to think and act. Had we, as a species, been driven for the sole purpose of survival, we would have been like the countless others that exist on Earth. But even though we have earned this gift from our anscestors through a process of evolution, the choice of using it or not still lies with us as individuals.
We go about our daily lives, our daily routines, our jobs, our schools, our movies, our restaurants.
But it is only now and then do we actually stop to think, really think about our sorroundings, the environment we are living in, the people we are working with, the kind of life we are living., the stuff that really makes a difference to us. We are supposed to be working to make a living, but somehow, we have ended up living to work. A lot of times we do think, but do not act, give ideas but do not implement it. Why is it so? Does it matter then if we can "think"?
Living is easy, just keep doing what everyone is doing and in 70 years you are home free, gone. But would such an existence made any difference? Would it matter that you spent a lifetime amongst the human race? Can this be called "existing"? Think about it.
That is what I like about the phrase, it makes people think and act. It is my very own subtle experiment. When people read the phrase, they become curious, they start thinking, they ask or look the phrase up. They read about it and a few understand that it is their ability to think that makes them exist.
I have another blog, tlasic.blogspot.com. I used to maintain it regularly till 2007 when I started working. It was a platform on which I would address issues, about which I felt strongly, to the public and, more importantly, to myself. It was an implementation of my think and act policy. But in 2007 I stopped writing.
The past 2 years have been a kind of void. I would feel, but I would not do. I would think, but I would not act. I did not exist for the past two years and with this post and blog, I am reborn. Hence the name reborn.
bagus alias jempol loro
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