21. General Term: Descartes, Rene (1596-1650) Descartes, Rene (15961650). French philosopher and natural scientist. He isoften said to be father of modern philosophy. Descartes shifts attention from http://www.meta-library.net/gengloss/descart-body.html

Descartes, Rene (1596-1650) French philosopher and natural scientist. He is often said to be father of modern philosophy. Descartes shifts attention from the question of what is the nature of what we know, to can I know anything at all for sure? The legacy of this is that modern philosophy effectively still deals with problems set by Descartes. In terms of scientific achievements he is the first to provide full world picture to challenge (and replace) Scholasticism . It is a fully mechanistic schema - including biological phenomena. par excellence of dualism , but contemporary scholarship is presently engaged in the task of trying to separate the man and his ideas from the caricature that has been assembled of him in the history of Western philosophy. He was schooled at a Jesuit college called La Fleche , after this he joined the army and travelled around Europe. He had a revelation in 'well heated room' and decided to take up philosophy in a serious manner. Legend tells of his habit to meditate in bed until noon. In 1649, he took up a position with Queen Christina in Stockholm, but died of pneumonia. Le Monde Contributed by: Richard P Whaite Related Topics: Philosophy Search for Descartes, Rene (1596-1650)

22. Rene Descartes Rene Descartes, biographies, papers and critiques of the physicist, RENÉ Descartes (15961650) Cogito Ergo Sum ( I think, therefore I am. ) http://www.renedescartes.com/

Home Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences Meditations Essay ... Resources REN DESCARTES (1596-1650) "Cogito Ergo Sum" ("I think, therefore I am.") Ren Descartes was born on March 31st, 1596 in the town of La Haye in the south of France, the son of Joachim Descartes, a Councilor in Parliament and and intellectual who made certain to provide a good learning environment for his son. In 1606, at the age of 8, René attended the Jesuit college of Henri IV in La Fl che, where he studied literature, grammar, science, and mathematics. In 1614, he left La Fl che to study civil and cannon Law at Poitiers. In 1616, he received his baccalaureate and licentiate degrees in Law. Aside from his Law degrees, Descartes also spent time studying philosophy, theology, and medicine. After a short stay in the military, Descartes went on to lead a quiet life, continuing his intellectual pursuits, writing philosophical essays, and exploring the world of science and mathematics. In 1637, he published "geometry", in which his combination of algebra and geometry gave birth to analytical geometry, better known as Cartesian geometry. But the most important contribution Descartes made were his philosophical writings; Descartes, who was convinced that science and mathematics could be used to explain everything in nature, was the first to describe the physical universe in terms of matter and motion, seeing the universe a as giant mathematically designed engine. Descartes wrote three important texts: Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences, Meditations on First Philosophy, and Principles of Philosophy.

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24. Rene Descartes (1596-1650) Library Of Congress Citations Other authors Descartes, Rene, 15961650. Discours de la mbethode. English. Meditationes de prima philosophia References Descartes, Rene, 1596-1650. http://www.mala.bc.ca/~mcneil/cit/citlcdescart1.htm

Rene Descartes (1596-1650) : Library of Congress Citations The Little Search Engine that Could Down to Name Citations LC Online Catalog Amazon Search Book Citations [First 20 Records] Author: Descartes, Rene, 1596-1650. Title: The Method, Meditations, and selections from the Principles of Descartes, tr. from the original texts, with a new introductory essay, historical and critical, by John Veitch. Edition: 12th ed. Published: Edinburgh, London, W. Blackwood and sons, 1899. Description: clxxxi, 292 p. 19 cm. LC Call No.: B1837 .V4 1899 Other authors: Vietch, John, 1829-1894, tr. Control No.: 01006791 Author: Hoffmann, Abraham. Title: Rene Descartes, von Abraham Hoffmann. Published: Stuttgart, F. Frommanns Verlag (E. Hauff) 1905. Description: x, 194 p. 22 cm. Series: Frommanns klassiker der philosophie, hrsg. von R. Falckenberg ... XVIII LC Call No.: B1873 .H7 Notes: 1. t. Descartes' leben und philosophische entwicklung.2. t. Das metaphysische system. Subjects: Descartes, Rene, 1596-1650. Series Entry: Frommanns Klassiker der Philosophie ; 18. Control No.: 06014379 //r86 Author: Descartes, Rene, 1596-1650. Uniform Title: Musicae compendium. English Title: Renatus Des-Cartes excellent compendium of musick: with necessary and judicious animadversions thereupon. By a person of honour. Published: London, Printed by T. Harper, for H. Moseley, 1653. Description: 8 p.l., 94 p., 1 l. diagrs. 20 x 15 cm. LC Call No.: ML3805.A2 D32 Notes: The "Animadversions", p. [59]-94, have special t.-p. A person of honour: Lord Brouncker. Subjects: Music Acoustics and physics Early works to 1800. Music Theory 17th century Early works to 1800. Other authors: Brouncker, William Brouncker, Viscount, 1620 or 21-1684, ed. Control No.: 08030100 //r854

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Rene Descartes Philosopher and Mathematician French Descartes was a "jack of all trades", making major contributions to the areas of anatomy, cognitive science, optics, mathematics and philosophy. Underlying his methodology is the belief that all science is based on mathematics. This is manifested in his unification of ancient geometry and his new alegbra based on the Cartesian coodinate system. For Descartes, certainty in philosphy and in mathematics is gained through understanding. We may know that two apples and two apples makes four apples, but Descartes believes that matematics transcends the senses, contributing to an overall mathematical order to the universe that is independent of senses. Senses were at the center of his Meditations on First Philosphy , a work in which Descartes explores the concepts of self, God and mind. He begins by shaking our belief in the sneses; if they are all an illusion created by a malicious deceiver, what can we trust? His answer is that we can doubt, and that the deceiver cannot cause us to doubt our own existence. Thus, the famous "cogito ergo sum" (I think therefore I am). However, the I is not a physical "i", is is an immaterial mind that is identified by "I". Thus begins Cartesian Dualism, the theory that there are two fundamental types of entities : mind and matter. The physical bodies exists extended in space, with depth, width and breadth. However, minds are entirely immaterial and nonspatial; they are the "I" he refers to. Since the mind is the only entity that can think (rocks cannot), Descartes uses the cogito arguemnt to prove the existence of a mind.

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Rene Descartes 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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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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Mystical World Wide Web Rene Descartes Rene Descartes is labelled as the first modern philosopher. Born in La Haye in Central France he was left an annual income for life by his father who was a prosperous lawyer. His early education was from the Jesuits which he then went on to gain degrees in Civil and Church law at the University of Poitiers. He is most famous for his statement of principal of certainty and validity, "I think therefore I am." His main argument was that God did not create people with unreliable senses, which we conclude Descartes believed "sense" information is an individuals only accurate depiction of the environment. Descartes always maintained that the role of the brain was to be a transitional agent between spiritual energies of the mind and physical forces of bodily mechanics. When he died in 1663 all his books were placed in The Index of Forbidden Books by the church. Cartesian dualism (the interaction between Mind and Body) asserts all human activity excluding thinking and feeling come under the heading of Bodily Physiology and can be said to be the study of the psychophysilogical. He is credited for directly stimulating the founding of psychology which in turn now gives us the discipline known as parapsychology. Although many psychologists have difficulty in applying some of the theories of parapsychology to psychology, as both of them rely heavily on scientific (statistical) data. BACK 2 MAIN SUBJECT GRID BACK 2 Alternative Theories Grid This page was brought to you by Mystical World Wide Web

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Home Authors Titles Keyword Search ... Reference Rene Descartes French rationalist philosopher and mathematician, "the father of modern philosophy," born at La Haye, near tours; trained at the Jesuit College at La Fleche, he remained a Roman Catholic throughout his life but soon became dissatisfied with scholasticism. While serving in the Bavarian army in 1619, he became convinced that it was his calling to refound human knowledge on a basis secure from skepticism. He expounded this idea in his most famous work, Meditationes de Prima Philosophia Meditations on First Philosophy , 1641). He began his inquiry by claiming that while one can doubt all the experiences of one's senses and the fruits of one's reason, one cannot doubt one's own existence as a thinking being, summarized in the Latin expression for which Descartes is famous: Cogito ergo sum (I think therefore I am). From this basis he argued that God must exist and cannot be a deceiver, therefore it is possible to discern truth through one's senses (a fundamental premise of rationalism). Descartes also argued that mind and body are distinct substances, believing that this dualism made possible human freedom and immortality. These ideas are seen in his Discours de la methode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la verita dans les sciences

31. Descartes, Rene - Principles Of Philosophy SELECTIONS FROM THE PRINCIPLES OF PHILOSOPHY OF Rene Descartes (15961650).TRANSLATED BY JOHN VEITCH, LL. D., LATE PROFESSOR OF LOGIC AND RHETORIC IN THE http://www.classicallibrary.org/descartes/principles/

Home Authors Titles Keyword Search ... Rene Descartes SELECTIONS FROM THE PRINCIPLES OF PHILOSOPHY OF RENE DESCARTES TRANSLATED BY JOHN VEITCH, LL. D., LATE PROFESSOR OF LOGIC AND RHETORIC IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW CONTENTS LETTER OF THE AUTHOR TO THE FRENCH TRANSLATOR OF THE PRINCIPLES OF PHILOSOPHY SERVING FOR A PREFACE. TO THE MOST SERENE PRINCESS, ELIZABETH, ELDEST DAUGHTER OF FREDERICK, KING OF BOHEMIA, COUNT PALATINE, AND ELECTOR OF THE SACRED ROMAN EMPIRE. PART I. OF THE PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE. PART II. OF THE PRINCIPLES OF MATERIAL THINGS. ... PART IV. OF THE EARTH. From the Publisher's Preface. The present volume contains a reprint of the preface and the first part of the Principles of Philosophy, together with selections from the second, third and fourth parts of that work, corresponding to the extracts in the French edition of Gamier, are also given, as well as an appendix containing part of Descartes' reply to the Second Objections (viz., his formal demonstrations of the existence of Deity). The translation is based on the original Latin edition of the Principles, published in 1644. The work had been translated into French during Descartes' lifetime, and personally revised and corrected by him, the French text is evidently deserving of the same consideration as the Latin originals, and consequently, the additions and variations of the French version have also been giventhe additions being put in square brackets in the text and the variations in the footnotes.

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iTeachMyKids articles : Rene' Descartes (1596-1650) Rene' Descartes (1596-1650) Idea: "I think, therefore I am" Immediate Impact: Ideas build upon one another. Rene's idea builds upon the idea that nothing is true or absolute except that "I doubt everything". The "I" replaces all absolutes - and anyone who builds upon this idea may insert any "I" they care to. Previous philosophers mostly delt with the two major forces in the universes: God and Nature. Rene introduces man into the equasion. Scripture: Matthew 16:18 "And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Lasting Impact: "I" can replace God - In fact any man with sufficient power can. The Internet Encylopedia says : "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. ... 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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Descartes, Rene Profile DESCARTES, Rene (1596-1650) French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician. At a time when the intellectual movements of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance had become moribund, he conceived fresh programs for philosophy and science and elaborated and defended them with great originality and brilliance. Descartes founded modern philosophical rationalism and had a profound and pervasive influence on subsequent philosophers of all schools. He was among the first to construe philosophy as providing a necessary foundation for science and, rejecting the traditional contemplative ideal, to regard science as a means of acquiring mastery over nature for the benefit of mankind. In addition to being an innovator in philosophy, he was one of the creators of mathematical physics, the inventor of analytic geometry, and an important figure in the histories of optics, physiology, and other branches of science. Science and sapience

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