Glossary of Philosophical Terms

C

Categorical Imperative

Kant's supreme principle of morality: act only according to maxims you could will to become universal laws.

Ethics Immanuel Kant

Cogito

Descartes' famous argument: "I think, therefore I am" (Cogito ergo sum) - the one certainty that survives radical doubt.

Epistemology René Descartes
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Coffee Drinker & Storyteller

I live among shadows and broken certainties. I speak little, I think too much. Each text is a failed attempt to translate what I can't even fully feel.

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