Rene Descartes was a famous 17th century French philosopher known for several important contributions. He connected geometry and algebra, allowing geometric problems to be solved using equations. He also promoted a new mechanical conception of matter that explained physical phenomena mechanically. However, he is most famous for his 1641 work "Meditations On First Philosophy" which provides a philosophical foundation for knowledge and certainty through systematic doubt and the famous saying "I think therefore I am".
Rene Descartes was a famous 17th century French philosopher known for several important contributions. He connected geometry and algebra, allowing geometric problems to be solved using equations. He also promoted a new mechanical conception of matter that explained physical phenomena mechanically. However, he is most famous for his 1641 work "Meditations On First Philosophy" which provides a philosophical foundation for knowledge and certainty through systematic doubt and the famous saying "I think therefore I am".
Rene Descartes was a famous 17th century French philosopher known for several important contributions. He connected geometry and algebra, allowing geometric problems to be solved using equations. He also promoted a new mechanical conception of matter that explained physical phenomena mechanically. However, he is most famous for his 1641 work "Meditations On First Philosophy" which provides a philosophical foundation for knowledge and certainty through systematic doubt and the famous saying "I think therefore I am".
Rene Descartes has been heralded as the first modern philosopher.
He is famous for having made an important connection between geometry and
algebra, which allowed for the solving of geometrical problems by way of algebraic equations. He is also famous for having promoted a new conception of matter, which allowed for the accounting of physical phenomena by way of mechanical explanations. However, he is most famous for having written a relatively short work, Meditationes de Prima Philosophia (Meditations On First Philosophy), published in 1641, in which he provides a philosophical groundwork fDescartes was born in La Haye on March 31, 1596 of Joachim Descartes and Jeanne Brochard. He was one of a number of surviving children (two siblings and two half-siblings). His father was a lawyer and magistrate, which apparently left little time for family. Descartes' mother died in May of the year following his birth, and he, his full brother and sister, Pierre and Jeanne, were left to be raised by their grandmother in La Haye. At around ten years of age, in 1606, he was sent to the Jesuit college of La Flche. He studied there until 1614, and in 1615 entered the University of Poitiers, where a year later he received his Baccalaureate and License in Canon & Civil Law. For the history and the text of his thesis, see the following supplementary