81. RENE DESCARTES 1596--1650 Rene Descartes 15961650. Return to Unit Outline. Return to Home Page.His life see video. His works Regulae ad directionem ingenii http://members.optusnet.com.au/~gjmoses/DESCART.htm

RENE DESCARTES Return to Unit Outline Return to Home Page His life see video. His works: Regulae ad directionem ingenii 1628, published posthumously; Le Monde, 1633, published posthumously; Discors de la Methode Meditationes de prima philosophia 1641, French edition 1647; Principia Philosophiae 1644, French edition 1647; Les Passions de l'Ame Descartes' intentions and his Method., Descartes thinks he can make a new start in knowledge -because he has come across a particular method, which he has already applied with some success. This method = a generalization of the procedure of mathematicians, the essentials summed up in his four Rules see Discourse 2. In first or fundamental philosophy however the method is qualified by the fact that we can only use analysis, not synthesis, whereas in maths proper both methods can be used reversibly. To use synthesis we would have to presuppose the existence of God and also that God had to create the world. This differentiates Descartes from Spinoza. Descartes intends not only to found knowledge, to provide a new basis, but to build significantly on the foundations. Compare his comparison of philosophy to a tree: An Introduction to The Meditations: The title : meditations rather than a treatise because the order is analytic.

82. The Philosophy Of René Descartes - Page 1 René Descartes (15961650). I. General Observations. René Descartes(picture) is justly considered the father of modern philosophy http://radicalacademy.com/phildescartes1.htm

Classic Philosophers The Great Thinkers of Western Philosophy Academy Resources Glossary of Philosophical Terms Philosophy Search Engine Timeline of Philosophy A Timeline of American Philosophy ... Books about Religion in The Radical Academy Bookstore Shop Amazon Stores in the Radical Academy Bookstore Magazine Outlet Music Store Video Store ... Baby Superstore TABLE OF CONTENTS I. II. III. IV. ... The Development of Cartesian Rationalism I. General Observations picture ) is justly considered the father of modern philosophy and the founder of the rational method as applied to philosophical research. In fact, he is the first philosopher to begin with the impressions which are in our intellect (intellectual phenomenalism) and lay down the laws which reason must follow in order to arrive at reasonably certain philosophical data. This phenomenalism does not find its full development in Descartes. Indeed, Descartes reaches metaphysical conclusions which are no different from those of Scholastic philosophy. He maintains the transcendency of God, upholds human liberty and Christian morality.

83. René Descartes. The 17th Century French Philosopher And Mathematician. A Brief 15961650, Who is Descartes? René Descartes (pronounced deikat ) was a 17th centuryFrench philosopher, mathematician and a man of science. Why the big deal? http://members.tripod.com/s_kichu/descartes.html

var cm_role = "live" var cm_host = "tripod.lycos.com" var cm_taxid = "/memberembedded" Home Snippets Jokes Art of living ... Net Tantra Who is Descartes? Why the big deal? He could be quite justifiably called the Father of Modern Philosophy. Descartes is regarded as the bridge between scholasticism and other schools of philosophy that followed. He provided a link to physics and philosophy. It was he who developed the'X','Y' and 'Z' coordinates to locate a point in 2 or 3 dimentions. We also owe the analytical geometry to him (Quite naturally, dont we know that!) Thanks to him you are able to use algebra and calculus to solve geometrical problems. In addition to the convention of exponent notation, his other contribution to Algebra is the treatment of Nagative Roots. Tell us something about his philosophy. He asserted that thinking is the sole aim, meaning and purpose of living! This (in my opinion) is opposed to "Hedonism" which believes in pleasure as the sole aim of humankind. His theory in a nutshell is 'cogito ergo sum' meaning,'I think, therefore I am'

84. Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650) Rene Descartes (1596 1650). 1. Biographical Sketch. · Born to upperclass parentsin small Fench town. Attended College at 10 until he was 18 years old. http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/philosophy/04R_Course_Outlines/04R_15.120

Rene Descartes Biographical Sketch Born to upperclass parents in small Fench town. Attended College at 10 until he was 18 years old. Did well at college but disillusioned - all that he learned was questionable/uncertain - no satisfaction, want to know things with certainty. overwhelmed by contradicting philosophies, became sceptical, later wrote “I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no affect other than the increasing discovery of my own ignorance.” Reminiscent of Socrates, except Socrates embraced this recognition of his intellectual limits, and made it the mark of wisdom. gave up studying, began to travel. Began to seek certainty. idea of joining mathematical certainty with philosophy. spent 20 years in Holland writing and publishing his philosophy as well as work in optics, anatomy, physiology and mathematics. 1649 Tutor of Queen Christina of Sweden - died from pneumonia in harsh climate in 1649.

85. Biografía Matemáticos: Rene Descartes (1/4) Translate this page Versión para imprimir, 1596 - 1650. 31 de marzo de 1596 a la Haye (ahoraDescartes), Touraine 11 de febrero de 1650, Estocolmo, Suecia. http://www.divulgamat.net/weborriak/Historia/MateOspetsuak/Descartes.asp

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86. Rene Descartes Quotes - The Quotations Page Quotations by Author. Rene Descartes (1596 1650) French mathematician philosopher more author details. Showing quotations 1 to 10 of 10 total, http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Rene_Descartes/

Home / News Quotes of the Day Motivational Author Index ... Contact Us Also visit: The Literature Page Quotations by Author Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650) [more author details] Showing quotations 1 to 10 of 10 total Read the works of Rene Descartes online at The Literature Page Cogito ergo sum. (I think; therefore I am.) Rene Descartes Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems. Rene Descartes If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. Rene Descartes - More quotations on: Doubt In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate. Rene Descartes The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts. Rene Descartes It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well. Rene Descartes, 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637

87. Rene Descartes At Erratic Impact's Philosophy Research Base René Descartes Biography. Biography by Peter Landry at blupete.com. Descartes TextsOnline. Meditations on First Philosophy (searchable html at Great Voyages). http://www.erraticimpact.com/~modern/html/modern_rene_descartes.htm

Modern Index New Book Search General Resources Francis Bacon ... George Berkeley Rene Descartes Galileo Galilei Thomas Hobbes David Hume Immanuel Kant ... Rationalists Five Basic Works on Rationalism by Rene Descartes Descartes : An Intellectual Biography by Stephen Gaukroger Descartes : His Life and Thought by Genevieve Rodis-Lewis, Jane Marie Todd (Translator) Rene Descartes Texts: Descartes Used Books: Descartes Descartes' Online Texts Know of a Resource? ... René Descartes: Biography Biography by Peter Landry at blupete.com. Excerpt: Descartes was a product of the church and his philosophy reflected the times in which he lived. Descartes was a dualist , viz., a man was of two natures, a spiritual nature and a temporal nature. Now whether this was a belief held deeply, might be a matter of some question, what is clear is that he would have professed his beliefs, such, that, they were in keeping with the doctrine of the time, as promulgated by the all powerful church. As a dualist, Descartes, would have accepted that there exists

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89. Rene Descartes - Famous Mathematicians Pictures, Posters, Gifts Items, Note Card René Descartes, 1596 1650. René Descartes viewed the world witha cold analytical logic. He viewed all physical bodies, including http://www.mathematicianspictures.com/Mathematicians/Descartes.htm

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90. Rene Du Perron Descartes The summary for this Chinese (Traditional) page contains characters that cannot be correctly displayed in this language/character set. http://episte.math.ntu.edu.tw/people/p_descartes/

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91. Descartes René Descartes. Born 31 March 1596 in La Haye (now Descartes),Touraine, FranceDied 11 Feb 1650 in Stockholm, Sweden. However Descartes claims http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Descartes.html

Born: 31 March 1596 in La Haye (now Descartes),Touraine, France Died: 11 Feb 1650 in Stockholm, Sweden Click the picture above to see eleven larger pictures Show birthplace location Previous (Chronologically) Next Biographies Index Previous (Alphabetically) Next Main index was a philosopher whose work, , includes his application of algebra to geometry from which we now have Cartesian geometry. Clavius . While in the school his health was poor and he was granted permission to remain in bed until 11 o'clock in the morning, a custom he maintained until the year of his death. School had made Descartes understand how little he knew, the only subject which was satisfactory in his eyes was mathematics. This idea became the foundation for his way of thinking, and was to form the basis for all his works. Descartes spent a while in Paris, apparently keeping very much to himself, then he studied at the University of Poitiers. He received a law degree from Poitiers in 1616 then enlisted in the military school at Breda. In 1618 he started studying mathematics and mechanics under the Dutch scientist Isaac Beeckman, and began to seek a unified science of nature. After two years in Holland he travelled through Europe. Then in 1619 he joined the Bavarian army. From 1620 to 1628 Descartes travelled through Europe, spending time in Bohemia (1620), Hungary (1621), Germany, Holland and France (1622-23). He spent time in 1623 in Paris where he made contact with

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Resources Menu Categorical Index Library Gallery Philosopher If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. Descartes was born on March 31, 1596 in Touraine, France. He was one of the most important and influential thinkers in human history and is sometimes called the founder of modern philosophy. In addition to his accomplishments as a philosopher Descartes was an outstanding mathematician, inventing analytic geometry and attempting to devise the simple universal laws that governed all physical change. Descartes published his major philosophical work, "Meditations on First Philosophy" in 1641, the year before Galileo died and Isaac Newton was born. Because he lived at a time when traditional ideas were being questioned, he sought to devise a method for reaching the truth. This concern and his method of systematic doubt had an enormous impact on the subsequent development of philosophy. Descartes introduced the now famous Latin phrase "cogito ergo sum," or in English "I think, therefore I am." In Descartes' view, the universe was created by God on whose power everything depends. He thought of God as resembling the human mind in that both the mind and God think, but have no physical being. But he believed that God is unlike the human mind in that God is infinite and does not depend on a creator for His existence.

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HOME HELP Article Bibliography ... Descartes, Ren© (1596–1650) Updated August 29, 2003 1 Life 2 The programme 3 Method 4 Doubt and the quest for certainty ... 13 The Cartesian heritage DANIEL GARBER Descartes, Ren© (1596–1650) Ren© Descartes, often called the father of modern philosophy, attempted to break with the philosophical traditions of his day and start philosophy anew. Rejecting the Aristotelian philosophy of the schools, the authority of tradition and the authority of the senses, he built a philosophical system that included a method of inquiry, a metaphysics, a mechanistic physics and biology, and an account of human psychology intended to ground an ethics. Descartes was also important as one of the founders of the new analytic geometry, which combines geometry and algebra, and whose certainty provided a kind of model for the rest of his philosophy. After an education in the scholastic and humanistic traditions, Descartes’ earliest work was mostly in mathematics and mathematical physics, in which his most important achievements were his analytical geometry and his discovery of the law of refraction in optics. In this early period he also wrote his unfinished treatise on method, the Rules for the Direction of the Mind , which set out a procedure for investigating nature, based on the reduction of complex problems to simpler ones solvable by direct intuition. From these intuitively established foundations, Descartes tried to show how one could then attain the solution of the problems originally posed.

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René Descartes Discourse on Method Meditations on First Philosophy Principles of Philosophy Secondary Source Material: Descartes' Epistemology : Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy René Descartes : Catholic Encyclopedia Descartes : Weber - History of Philosophy Miscellanae: The Cartesian School : Weber - History of Philosophy 17th Century Reaction to Mind/Body Dualism Continental Rationalism : Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Ontological Arguments : Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy "On Descartes and Newton" : Voltaire - Letters on England Descartes : Hegel - Lectures on the History of Philosophy Medieval elements in Descartes : John Kilcullen Biographical Information Readings in Modern Philosophy

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var baseDir = '../'; EGS Home MA in Communication PhD in Communication Admin ... Links Biography Descartes went on to obtain a degree in law from Poiter, then enlisted in the Dutch military. Military service was tradition in his family, and when the Thierty Years' War began he was encouraged to volunteer under the Count de Bucquoy in the Bavarian army. In his leisure time he studied mathematics, having been influenced by the Dutch mathematician and scientist Beeckman. Descartes dates his first new philosophical ideas and his analytical geometry from three dreams that he had while campaigning on the Danube. He saw November 19, 1619, the date of these dreams, as a landmark moment in his life. It was around 1619 that he may have started Rules for the Direction of Mind , his first major philosophical treatise, which would remain unfinished. This work discusses the proper method for engaging with science and rational theology. From 1620 to 1628 Descartes traveled through Europe, moving from Bohemia, to Hungary, Germany, Holland and France. In 1623 he was is Paris where he met Mersenne, a connection who would keep him in contact with his contemporaries in science. After Paris, he spent time in Venice, returning to France in 1625. In 1628 he met the Cardinal de Berulle, the founder of the Oratorians. Berulle was impressed by his conversation with Descartes, and he encouraged Descartes to devote his life to the study of truth. In 1629 Descartes moved to Holland where he would live in seclusion for 20 years. Occasionally during this time he would visit France, and he changed his address frequently to maintain his privacy.

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