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  1. Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences by René Descartes, 2010-07-24
  2. Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes, 2007-08-09
  3. Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings (Penguin Classics) by Rene Descartes, 1999-09-01
  4. The Philosophical Works of Descartes (v. 1) by René Descartes, 1967-01-01
  5. Meditations on First Philosophy: In which the existence of God and the immortality of the soul are demonstrated by Rene Descartes, 2009-04-03
  6. Meditations on First Philosophy: In Which the Existence of God and the Distinction of the Soul from the Body Are Demonstrated by Rene Descartes, 2009-09-16
  7. Discourse on Method and Related Writings (Penguin Classics) by Rene Descartes, 2000-03-01
  8. Meditations, Objections, and Replies by Rene Descartes, Roger Ariew, et all 2006-03-30
  9. The Passions of the Soul: An English Translation of Les Passions De L'Ame by Rene Descartes, Stephen Voss, 1990-01
  10. Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes, 2010-06-13
  11. Oeuvres De Descartes (French Edition) by Jules Simon, René Descartes, 2010-03-24
  12. The Principles Of Philosophy by Rene Descartes, 2010-05-23
  13. Descartes: The World and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by René Descartes, 1998-12-28
  14. The Philosophical Writings of Descartes: Volume 2 by Rene Descartes, 1985-08-30

1. RENE DESCARTES
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"I am thinking therefore I exist."
(Latin: Cogito ergo sum)
from the Discourse on Method Rene Descartes was a famous French mathematician, scientist and philosopher. He was arguably the first major philosopher in the modern era to make a serious effort to defeat skepticism. His views about knowledge and certainty, as well as his views about the relationship between mind and body have been very influential over the last three centuries. Regulae or Rules for the Direction of Mind written in 1628-9 but not published until 1701. This work shows Descartes interest in method which he shared with many sixteenth and seventeenth century scientists, mathematicians and philosophers. One source of this interest in method was ancient mathematics. The thirteen books of Euclid's Elements was a model of knowledge and deductive method. But how had all this been achieved? Archimedes had made many remarkable discoveries. How had he come to make these discoveries? The method in which the results were presented (sometimes called the method of synthesis) was clearly not the method by which these results were discovered. So, the search was on for the method used by the ancient mathematicians to make their discoveries (the method of analysis). Descartes is clearly convinced that the discovery of the proper method is the key to scientific advance. For a more extended and detailed discussion of these methods, see John Cottingham , The Rationalists

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While the great philosophical distinction between mind and body in western thought can be traced to the Greeks, it is to the seminal work of Rene Descartes (1596-1650) , French mathematician, philosopher, and physiologist, that we owe the first systematic account of the mind/body relationship. Descartes was born in Touraine, in the small town of La Haye and educated from the age of eight at the Jesuit college of La Fleche. At La Flèche, Descartes formed the habit of spending the morning in bed, engaged in systematic meditation. During his meditations, he was struck by the sharp contrast between the certainty of mathematics and the controversial nature of philosophy, and came to believe that the sciences could be made to yield results as certain as those of mathematics. From 1612, when he left La Fleche, until 1628, when he settled in Holland, Descartes spent much of his time in travel, contemplation, and correspondence.

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Rene Descartes, a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, is sometimes called the father of modern philosophy. Descartes's philosophy, sometimes called Cartesianism, carried him into elaborate and erroneous explanations of a number of physical phenomena. These explanations did have value, though, because he substituted a system of mechanical interpretations of physical phenomena for the vague spiritual concepts of most earlier writers. Although Descartes had at first been inclined to accept the Copernican theory of the universe with its concept of a system of spinning planets revolving around the sun, he abandoned this theory when it was pronounced heretical by the Roman Catholic church. In its place he devised a theory of vortices in which space was entirely filled with matter, in various states, whirling about the sun. In the field of physiology, Descartes held that part of the blood was a subtle fluid, which he called animal spirits. The animal spirits, he believed, came into contact with thinking substances in the brain and flowed out along the channels of the nerves to animate the muscles and other parts of the body. Descartes's study of optics led him to the independent discovery of the fundamental law of reflection: that the angle of incidence is equal to the angle of reflection. His essay on optics was the first published statement of this law. Descartes's treatment of light as a type of pressure in a solid medium paved the way for the undulatory theory of light.

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"I think, therefore I am."
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Rene Descartes was born on March 31, 1596, in a small town in France called La Haye. He attended the college of Henri IV in La Fleche at the age of 10 and he left La Fleche in 1614 to study civil and cannon law at Poitiers. He received baccalaureate and licentiate degrees in law in 1616, and in 1618 he joined the army of Prince Maurice. Between 1628 and 1649 he led a quiet scholarly life. He produced most of his philosophical writings within this period. Rene Descartes died in Sweden in the year 1650.
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L’autore mantiene sempre il controllo della ragione. Il fatto che i verbi siano tutti al presente suggerisce una ripetizione abituale di queste azioni, egli è cosciente del suo fantasticare. La lirica è formata da quattro periodi, il primo e l’ultimo hanno un ritmo piano e discorsivo, mentre quelli centrali hanno un ritmo mosso e la loro sintassi è più complessa.
Leopardi vuole superare il limiti dell’esperienza umana e per far ciò, accosta dei contesti naturali, rappresentati dalla siepe e dei contesti mentali, dello stormire del vento per potersi proiettare negli spazi indeterminati, nell’infinito silenzio e nella dimensione dell’eterno; dimensioni nelle quali la fantasia trova dolce il naufragio. Per quanto concerne il paesaggio esso è ridotto all’essenzialità assoluta: il “colle” e la “siepe” che limita la visuale e l’ultimo orizzonte che funziona da stimolo per l’immaginazione.
Il poeta crea nel suo pensiero per via negativa, semplicemente opponendo allo spazio chiuso una vastità, illimitata, ai suoni e ai moti della vita, un silenzio e una quiete ignote.

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Back to the mind-body problem, the fact that different people perceive tennis balls differently shows us that internal realities vary. But the mind-body problem is deeper than that when one begins to consider the interactions between mind and body. Before Descartes, the problem was fuzzy, convoluted. People believed that mental powers routinely affected the physical world. For example, the witch down the road could kill your chickens by hexing them, so you had to be nice to her. Today, we do not think that way, or do we? Consider the following: We carry brides across thresholds, we put pine trees on top of buildings when we finish them, and we throw salt over our shoulders. But, most of us only pay lip service to such behaviors. We do not really believe that our marriage will last if we carry our bride across the threshold, or that the building will fall if we do not top it, or that bad luck will follow if we fail to throw the salt. In the Middle Ages, however, people did believe strongly in those kinds of interactions between internal and external reality. Further, they believed that both types of realities were completely and totally bound together. Descartes destroyed that type of thinking by proposing that mind and body were separable. He said that they existed separately but that they did interact from time to time. For that reason, we call Descartes' solution to the mind-body problem interactionism. In many ways, one can argue that interactionism led directly to the creation of the modern world. By separating mind and body, Descartes made it possible to study the two separately, and that is exactly what happened. The route made possible by studying the body or external reality, is called mechanism. Today, we pay more attention to the engineer's analysis of a building than we pay to whether or not a building was topped by a pine tree during its construction. If the building were to collapse, we would look for the engineer, not for the person who rigged the pine tree. In short, science and technology have flourished by ignoring, at some level, the mind half of the mind-body problem.

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The son of a French nobleman, his gift for mathematics emerged during his Jesuit education. In 1619 he dreamed of reworking knowledge on a more rational basis, and after ten years of travel in Europe he chose a secluded life in the Netherlands to pursue his goal. In his "Meditations," written in French, not Latin, to allow a wider readership, Descartes began by doubting all knowledge, finding certainty only in the statement "I think, therefore I am." He went on to argue that everything should be categorized as either mind or matter, and that all that is matter functions mechanically. He also helped to found coordinate geometry and made major contributions to optics.
In 1649 Descartes went to Stockholm to instruct Queen Christina of Sweden in philosophy. Accustomed to meditating in bed until 11 a.m., he fell into bad health when the queen insisted on taking her lessons at 5 a.m. He died of pneumonia one year later.

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18. René Descartes [Internet Encyclopedia Of Philosophy]
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René Descartes (1596-1650) René Descartes (1596-1650) is one of the most important Western philosophers of the past few centuries. During his lifetime, Descartes was just as famous as an original physicist, physiologist and mathematician. But it is as a highly original philosopher that he is most frequently read today. He attempted to restart philosophy in a fresh direction. For example, his philosophy refused to accept the Aristotelian and Scholastic traditions that had dominated philosophical thought throughout the Medieval period; it attempted to fully integrate philosophy with the 'new' sciences; and Descartes changed the relationship between philosophy and theology. Such new directions for philosophy made Descartes into a revolutionary figure. The two most widely known of Descartes' philosophical ideas are those of a method of hyperbolic doubt, and the argument that, though he may doubt, he cannot doubt that he exists. The first of these comprises a key aspect of Descartes' philosophical method. As noted above, he refused to accept the authority of previous philosophers - but he also refused to accept the obviousness of his own senses. In the search for a foundation for philosophy, whatever could be doubted must be rejected. He resolves to trust only that which is clearly and distinctly seen to be beyond any doubt. In this manner, Descartes peels away the layers of beliefs and opinions that clouded his view of the truth. But, very little remains, only the simple fact of doubting itself, and the inescapable inference that something exists doubting, namely Descartes himself.

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(Renatus Cartesius), philosopher and scientist, born at La Haye France, 31 March, 1596; died at Stockholm, Sweden, 11 February 1650. He studied at the Jesuit Galileo frightened Descartes who preferred to avoid all collision with ecclesiastical authority. He deferred the publication of this clever work without, however, losing hope of eventually bringing it out. In 1649, yielding to the entreaties of Queen Christina, he went to Sweden, and died at Stockholm of inflammation of the lungs. Descartes' work is important rather because of its quality than of its quantity. Let us see first of all wherein his method is new. He observed, as Bacon Aristotle Bacon Bacon ... Baconian method (letter to Mersenne, 1631), and acts accordingly. He put himself in touch with all the experimental work of his day (letter, April, 1632), urged others to take up research (letter to Mersenne, 1632), and carried on experiments of his own that covered a wide range of subjects: the weight of air (letter, 2 June, 1631), the laws of sound and light (letter, 1633); the essential differences between oils, spirits, eaux-de-vie, common waters, aquafortis, and salts. He dissected the heads of various animals to show the workings of memory and imagination (cf. letters to Mersenne, 1633 April, 1637; 13 November, 1639; 4 January, 1643, ed. Cousin, Paris, 1826). There was hardly a fact that escaped this apologist of Reason nor anything into whose hidden nature he did not inquire; even the "Chasse de Pan" he followed with his accustomed ardour.

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