"I think, therefore I am" is a philosophical principle put forward by Descartes, a famous French scientist and philosopher in the17th century. Descartes believes that the world of human life is composed of a relatively independent spiritual world and a relatively independent material world. This relatively independent spiritual world is a world composed of each of our thoughts, and human beings are the masters of this spiritual world; The relatively independent material world is a world composed of various substances, which develop and change according to the laws of nature. Descartes' philosophy is called "dualism" because he advocates that both spirit and matter are the origins of the world. Descartes' philosophical thought is obviously a challenge to the backward thought of "God rules everything", which shook the dominant position of scholasticism and theology at that time and was obviously progressive.

From the philosophical point of view, combined with the basic spirit of Descartes' philosophical thought, we can understand the sentence "I think, therefore I am", and we can notice three meanings: (1) My thoughts and my body are both real, and the whole world is such a whole composed of human spiritual world and material world. (2) it is everyone or human beings who dominate the fate of mankind or the whole human race, not God or anything else. (3) All kinds of substances in the material world, just like the items placed in our room, have their own laws of old and new changes, but people can choose them according to their own needs, exert influence on them and use them for us.

Combining these three meanings, it is not difficult for us to appreciate the brilliance of this 300-year-old western philosopher's philosophical thought, which can be said to have sounded the clarion call for all mankind to change their destiny, the world and everything.

Excerpt: XIONGZQ 168