Rene Descartes

He broadly talked about mathematics and physics, and has influenced many other philosophers. One of his most famous arguments was the Dream Argument. He believed that there is truly no way of differentiating between being awake or in a dreaming state. Hilary Putnam was another philosopher, who followed Descartes work. His theory suggested a brain-in-a-vat scenario, that our brains are controlled and deceived by another individual or thing. In the Dream Argument, Descartes considers the senses and their ability to…...

Rene achieves some absolutely unquestionable and obvious knowledge the individual in solitude in the almost desperate task of finding a firm ground on which to rest his convictions. This is the pretense of the philosophy of René Descartes. This theme results on the phrase I think therefore I am. With it Descartes expresses the discovery of an unquestionable truth but also a new realm of the real: individual self-conscious subjectivity. also called Cartesius he was born in French on March…...

The philosophical and mathematical advancements sparked by Rene Descartes, a French philosopher of the 17th century and Scientific Revolution, contributed to many of the main ideas seen currently in geometry. He is attributed with the development of influential ideas, theorems, and formulas in modern geometry, despite his ideas being from centuries ago. Arguably some of his most groundbreaking ideas of his are quantified in the Discussion of the Method, where his method of scientific and mathematical thinking that helped him…...

In Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes presents his "divisibility argument" for mind-body dualism, or Cartesian Dualism, by using the idea that the mind and body have different properties and are therefore two separate and distinct things. In this essay, I will state the argument and its premises, and through critical analyzing, contend that this argument cannot be accepted as true, with the fault mainly lying in the second premise: the mind's indivisibility. Descartes' “Cogito Argument”, which can be summed up…...

If there was one philosopher whose name could be taken as a synonym for the Enlightenment, Rene Descartes would have a strong case for being the one. His contributions to Western Civilization are vast and impressive, contributions in fields ranging from mathematics to physics to philosophy. His crowning achievements, however, are his Meditations, in which he attempts to settle once and for all the lofty philosophical questions of the existence of God and the immortality of the soul. To do…...

"Politics should be the application of the science Of man to the construction of the community" Explain this remark and discuss what reasons there might be for thinking it is not trueIn this essay I intend to examine the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes and Rene Descartes, in particular their ideas relating to the science of man, and attempt to explain why their ideas prove that it is not possible to construct a science of man. I will also briefly…...

Rene Descartes was a French Mathematician and a modern Philosopher who developed an original philosophy based on sciences aimed at being stable and likely to last. His method was based upon premises of senses, reason, doubt and belief. Like most philosophers his quest was for Truth and knowledge. However the nature of Truth and knowledge remains debatable among philosophers to this day. It is worth noting that a contemporary modern philosopher said at the beginning of the 21st century, the…...

Socrates once said, “As for me, all I know is that I know nothing. ” Several philosophers contradicted Socrates’ outlook and believed that true knowledge was in fact attainable. This epistemological view however had several stances to it, as philosophers held different beliefs in regards to the derivation of true knowledge. Rationalists believed that the mind was the source of true knowledge, while in Empiricism, true knowledge derived from the senses. Rene Descartes, a rationalist, and John Locke, an empiricist,…...

Rene Descartes and David Hume discussed epistemology on the exact same concern, "where does human knowledge originated from?" They both pertained to very different conclusions. Descartes claimed that our understanding originated from human reasoning alone and this is an outright certainty concept. This professors of reasoning is natural tool that came with human types. He called this tool, "mind," which is separated from our body. Hume on the other hand, declared that human gained from observing the empirical world, and…...

The question of God is a perennial subject of debate in the history of philosophical scholarship and can be located in nearly all the epochs of philosophy. The subject however occupies a central space in the medieval epoch that was characterized by religious thinkers. The debate is largely between two schools of thought. There are those who opine that there is no such entity as God. To such thinkers, the question of God does not amount to anything but is…...