I Think Therefore I Am, and I Think I Am

Soill: Many modern philosophers take it for granted that this is the fundamental thing that you cannot doubt. But why aren't there texts of philosophy where you can just look up descart's cogitatl? Weing are not reading the philosopher's ideas in their own words, but rather some one else who has distilled out the useful stuff. Soill: As those old philosophies especially, are critiqued and improved, there's no reason for us to go back, except as a matter of some sort of literature, to read the old philosophers. There's better ways to understand those ideas now.