Discussion
'I think, therefore, I am', is the basic principle of ....................... .
Answer: C
The answer is Existentialism.
'I think, therefore I am' (cogito ergo sum) is Rene Descartes' starting point: the one thing that cannot be doubted is the existence of the thinking self. The existentialists take the existing, conscious individual as their starting point in the same way; Sartre wrote that there can be no other truth to start from than the cogito. That shared emphasis on the self-aware individual is why the paper links the statement with existentialism.
Strictly, Descartes was a rationalist, which is not among the options. Realism starts from the external world, Marxism from material and economic conditions, and logical empiricism from sense experience and verification, so none of them begins with the thinking self.
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