None,”S0renKierkegaardoncecomplained,“none daressayT.”WhatevermayhavebeentrueofKierkegaard’s contemporaries, against whom he directed this remark, cer¬ tainly both Augustine and Descartes were thinkers who dared say “I.” In ways that are strikingly similar, as well as strikingly
different, they developed and presented many of their philo¬ sophical thoughts from an unapologetically first-person point of view. In this they were worthy of Kierkegaard’s approbation.