LA CRITIQUE DE SARTRE SUR LE COGITO CARTÉSIEN
SARTRE’S CRITICISM OF THE CARTESIAN COGITO

Summary/Abstract: Sartre admits that cogito is the proper name for consciousness, to which he maintains the specific of ʺthoughtʺ given to it by Descartes. But he makes a firm separation between ego and cogito, therefore between ʺIʺ and ʺthoughtʺ, which Descartes always considered together. Sartre criticizes the Cartesian reflexive cogito because it cannot fully explain the specificity of consciousness, and he introduces the concept of the ʺpre‐reflexive cogitoʺ, a condition of the reflexive cogito. He emphasizes the essential difference between the Cartesian cogito, isolated in complete solitude, and his own cogito, namely the consciousness as being‐for‐itself, which opens towards the other, conceived like other‐for‐himself.

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