我是什么？对于笛卡尔，我是一种思想，一个怀疑的机构；很明显的，因此我只是一个想法。

What am I? For Descartes, I am a thinking, doubting agency; and obviously, therefore, I am a mind.

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从笛卡尔、达尔文到德彪西，Europeana希望成为一个在网上展示欧洲人思想的文化展览柜。

From Descartes to Darwin to Debussy, Europeana hopes to become the online cultural showcase of European thought.

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相比伏尔泰、孔多塞和笛卡尔这些利用理性去直面迷信和封建主义的法国启蒙思想者们，海峡对面的思想家，如布鲁克斯在书中所提及的伯克、休谟以及亚当·斯密，则认为信任理性是不明智的行为。

While Voltaire, Condorcet and Descartes used reason to confront superstition and feudalism, thinkers across the Channel – Brooks cites Burke, Hume and Adam Smith – thought it unwise to trust reason.

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Well, I'm not going to follow the details of this argument, but the basic idea goes back to Descartes.

我不打算对这个论证进行详细讨论,只是说一下笛卡尔的基本思想

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And so, Descartes' attempt to establish the distinctness of the mind, the immateriality of the mind, on the basis of this Cartesian thought experiment, I think that's unsuccessful.

所以,笛卡尔试图,用他的卡式思想实验来证明,心灵的独立存在性,和非物质性,我认为这种尝试是失败的

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I think the sort of skepticism I mean arises from what one might call and what often is called modernity not to be confused with Modernism, an early twentieth-century phenomenon, but the history of modern thought as it usually derives from the generation of Descartes, Shakespeare, and Cervantes.

我所说的怀疑主义,产生于我们通常说的现代性,不要与20世纪早期的，现代主义搞混了，现代性是现代思想的历史,始于笛卡尔，莎士比亚和塞万提斯一代。

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