René DescartesРене Декарт
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Each date opens its day beside the list, with these passages marked.Каждая дата открывает свой день рядом со списком, где отрывки этого автора отмечены.
1. Единственная непосредственная достоверность есть достоверность сознания.
1. The only immediate certainty is the certainty of consciousness.
Probably from Discours de la méthode · reworded by Tolstoy (more).
Not in Leo Tolstoy as EditorDescartes is only a candidate: the line is not a sentence of his; it states what “je pense, donc je suis” means, in the terms of Schopenhauer’s gloss on it, and Tolstoy’s source was not found.
Original · French… remarquant que cette vérité, _je pense, donc je suis_, étoit si ferme et si assurée, que toutes les plus extravagantes suppositions des sceptiques n'étoient pas capables de l'ébranler, je jugeai que je pouvois la recevoir sans scrupule pour le premier principe de la philosophie que je cherchois.
Source text: gutenberg.orgIn English · John Veitch, 1850… as I observed that this truth, I think, therefore I am (COGITO ERGO SUM), was so certain and of such evidence that no ground of doubt, however extravagant, could be alleged by the sceptics capable of shaking it, I concluded that I might, without scruple, accept it as the first principle of the philosophy of which I was in search.
Source text: gutenberg.orgRelated · Schopenhauer, Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung, vol. II, ch. 4, Von der Erkenntniß a p…Eigentlich aber hat Karteſius damit die große Wahrheit ausdrücken wollen, daß nur dem Selbſtbewußtſeyn, alſo dem Subjektiven, unmittelbare Gewißheit zukommt …
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A likely source, not certain. Discours de la méthode (1637), part IV, Part IV, the cogito; Veitch's translation, part IV.
Descartes's thought, in another writer's words. «Единственная непосредственная достоверность есть достоверность сознания» ('the only immediate certainty is the certainty of consciousness') is not a sentence of Descartes; it states what his 'je pense, donc je suis' means. Its terms are Schopenhauer's gloss on the cogito: 'what Descartes really wished to express was the great truth that immediate certainty belongs only to self-consciousness, to what is subjective' (Haldane and Kemp's English, vol. II, ch. IV; German 'unmittelbare Gewißheit' = «непосредственная достоверность»). Tolstoy read Schopenhauer closely, and the Circle quotes him often; whether he took the line from this chapter or from an anthology is not known. Searched as well: Amiel's Journal (which mentions Descartes but has no such line) and Boiste's Dictionnaire universel.