René Descartes

René Rene Descartes was born on March thirty one, 1596 in La Haye, France. Rene Descartes became one in every of the foremost potent thinkers in human history, and is usually known as the founding father of trendy philosophy.

Descartes folks were violinist Rene Descartes and Jeanne Brochard. His mother died the year following his birth. His father was a professional person and justice, that left very little time for raising a family. René and his brother and sister, capital of South Dakota and Jeanne, were raised by their gran.

From 1606 till 1614, Rene Descartes attended La Fleche, a Jesuit faculty in Anjou. He spent the subsequent 2 years in Paris finding out arithmetic, and being introduced to trendy French society. In 1616, he began the study of law at University of Poitiers, however in 1617, taken off for Kingdom of The Netherlands wherever he volunteered within the Dutch army. Over the subsequent eleven years Rene Descartes cosmopolitan throughout Europe, subsidence within the European country in 1628. He completed 2 further years of education within the Dutch cities of Franeker and urban center. Rene Descartes later claimed that his formal education provided very little of substance, which solely arithmetic, any real information.

Descartes revealed his major philosophical work, "A Discourse on technique, Meditations on initial Philosophy" in 1641, the year before Galileo Galilei died and Isaac Newton was born. as a result of he lived at a time once ancient ideas were being questioned, he sought-after to plot a technique for reaching the reality. This concern and his technique of systematic doubt had a huge impact on the next development of philosophy. Rene Descartes introduced the currently famed Latin phrase "cogito ergo add," or in English "I suppose, thus i'm."

In Descartes' read, the universe was created by God on whose power everything depends. He thought of God as resembling the human mind in this each the mind and God suppose, however don't have any physical being. however he believed that God is not like the human mind in this God is infinite and doesn't depend upon a creator for His existence.

In addition to his accomplishments as a thinker Rene Descartes was an impressive scientist, inventing analytical geometry and making an attempt to plot the easy universal laws that ruled all natural process.

In 1649, Queen Christina of Scandinavian nation persuaded Rene Descartes to come back to national capital. On Feb eleven, 1650, once solely a number of months in this cold climate, he died of respiratory illness.