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Ideas for 'Folk Psychology', 'Empiricist View of Religion' and 'Nicomachean Ethics'

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11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 4. The Cogito

2573	To perceive or think is to be conscious of our existence [Aristotle]
	Full Idea: To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our existence (for we have seen that existence is sensation or thought).
	From: Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics [c.334 BCE], 1170a32)
	A reaction: A lovely glimpse of Descartes' Cogito, which was made more explicit by Augustine. Is an animal (which presumably perceives) conscious of its existence?