Check out this Reels video from the Louisiana Channel, HERE.
The video is about the "first principle" of René Descartes's philosophy, “cogito, ergo sum, usually translated into English as "I think, therefore I am.”
The video is about the "first principle" of René Descartes's philosophy, “cogito, ergo sum, usually translated into English as "I think, therefore I am.”
| Antoine Léonard Thomas, in a 1765 essay in honor of Descartes, presented it as dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum ("I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am") – and that’s what made me think of Dickinson. For a short period of time, Dickinson attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (today Mount Holyoke College). At the time of Dickinson, students were instructed to arrive there with their own Bible, a dictionary, a modern atlas, Watts’ Psalms and Hymns, Village Hymns, and any other books they felt might be useful to their studies. |  |
As a Female Seminary, religion was at the core of all work, but upon examination by Mary Lyon in 1847, Dickinson, then 17 years old, was infamously classified as a “No Hoper” on a scale of “Saved,” “Hoper,” or “No Hoper” regarding the state of her soul. Dickinson left after only one year of study.
No doubt, Dickinson was full of doubt – and most certainly she was a thinker; therefore she “was.” ;-)
Below: Mount Holyoke Female Seminary
No doubt, Dickinson was full of doubt – and most certainly she was a thinker; therefore she “was.” ;-)
Below: Mount Holyoke Female Seminary
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