Uri Milstein known that Rabin fled the battlefield he commanded on April 20, 1948, that he was fired from all his active military commands in Israel's Independence War, and that he received electric shocks in a psychiatric hospital in May 1967, even so we would have to follow the principle of Rene Descartes: I think (question), therefore I am (Cogito ergo sum), or to the motto of the Royal Society"Do not believe the words of man"("nullius in verba")." Milstein maintains that Rabin, long revered as "Mr. Defense" and "The Warrior Par Excellence" achieved nothing militarily, knew nothing about economics, and had violent
Cogito and the History of Madness translation of the text into English as "Madness and Civilization". The abridged 1964 edition removed the pages concerning Descartes on which Derrida had explicitly based his argument in "Cogito and the History of Madness." These pages on Descartes were only made available in English with Jean Khalfa's 2006 translation of Foucault's work on madness. Derrida makes an allusion to the master–slave dialectic in Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit" in the opening pages of "Cogito and the History of Madness." Foucault writes at the start of the second chapter of the "History of Madness" of a strange violent event that silenced madness