René Descartes

(1596 –1650)

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René Descartes BiographyPhilosopher, Scientist, Mathematician, Academic (1596–1650)

Born on March 31 1596 in La Haye En Touraine inside the kingdom of France.

Descartes was the first to provide a framework in philosophy for the nature sciences and mathematics as they developed.

Descartes died on February 11 1650 age 53 in Stockholm, Sweden while he was invited as a philosophy teacher for the Queen Christina of Sweden.

Birth

Career

Death Father of Modern

Philosophy

Why is Descartes known as the Father of Modern Philosophy?

He was the first major figure in the philosophical movement known as rationalism, a method of understanding the world based on the use of reason as the means to attain knowledge.

“That it is impossible to doubt that you are thinking (you must think to doubt) thus we can be certain that a thinking mind exists.”

René Descartes PhilosophiesRATIONALISM

“ Understanding the world based on the use of reason. Believing only in the sense of a general nature and absolute Intellect / truth does not require experience; because it can reduce the sense of truth from its self. “

SKEPTICISM “ You must think to doubt “ Descartes wanted to seek knowledge of what

can not be doubted. Which ultimately leads to the premise Cogito Ergo Sum (I think therefore I am).

REFLECTION

Reflection of thought or philosophy of Descartes takes us in the understanding that mind is a substance or matter that the only exist.

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