Descartes realized that the fact that he was always thinking was beyond doubt, and so he equated thinking with Being, that is to say, identity-"I am"-with thinking.
Instead of the ultimate truth, he had found the root of the ego, but he didn't know that.
It took almost three hundred years before another famous philosopher saw something in that statement that Descartes, as well as everybody else, had overlooked.
The famous philosopher's name was … !
2・生きる「意味」
Viktor Emil Frankl(アウシュビッツを生き抜いたユダヤ人の精神科医)のロゴセラピー
人間は状況に束縛されつつも、状況を選ぶ自由をもち、それゆえ人生の「意味」を求める選択と責任とが生ずるという。かくて治療においては、「意味」を求める人間として医師と患者との真剣な人格的交わりが必要であると説く