Comments by "marie parker" (@marieparker3822) on "David Starkey: The State of the West" video.

  1. 'Men go to fight, and women and children go to safety.' I don't think it was exactly like this in the Second World War, or to a lesser extent even in the First World War.
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  2. 'Cogito ergo sum' is Descartes' attempt to escape the radical scepticism that his Method of Doubt has led him into. He doubts the existence of his own body - he may be being given false perceptions by an evil demon (or in today's language, a mad scientist). But something representing him must exist. There must be something that's doing the doubting. Therefore it would have been clearer to translate 'Cogito . . .' as 'I doubt therefore I am.' He then has a difficulty in escaping Dualism, which he does not really manage.
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