Augustine,Descrates,Nietzsche,Aquines
Descartes and Nietzsche both state with the individual, but in different ways and senses. Descartes starts his investigation of what can be known with certainty with the thought experiments of the individual, namely, the individual perceiver and thinker, namely, himself. Nietzsche, is concerned with himself as an author, he wrote his own autobiography and titled it Ecce Homo, meaning "behold, the Man" using a title sometimes used in biographies of Jesus, and also considers his Overman as an individual and not as being a group or class. Descartes has other things in mind and considers the human being in quite different terms. To Descartes the human individual is one with a body that has extension in space as its basic material property, but, more importantly. As a mind, in the sense of being one who thinks and doubts. This is something that one cannot consistently doubt, in contrast to what one senses or observes, and so the thinking self becomes the basic knowing entity, the basis of certainty in his knowledge. What is presented as clearly and distinctly to the self as its own existence is accepted as true. Yet the human self is finite in intellect though the will is not limited, or as limited, and Descartes takes this as
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Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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