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René Descartes
French philosopher (1596–1650)
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René Descartes (day-KART, DAY-kart; French:[ʁənedekaʁt]ⓘ; [note 3][11] 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650)[12][13]: 58 was a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science. Mathematics was paramount to his method of inquiry, and he connected the previously separate fields of geometry and algebra into analytic geometry. Descartes spent much of his working life in the Dutch Republic, initially serving the Dutch States Army, and later becoming a central intellectual of the Dutch Golden Age.[14] Although he served a Protestant state and was later counted as a deist by critics, Descartes was Roman Catholic.[15][16]
Many elements of Descartes's philosophy have precedents in late Aristotelianism, the revived Stoicism of the 16th century, or in earlier philosophers like Augus
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Descartes’ Life and Works
1. Early Years
Descartes 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 Flèche. 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 document:
Descartes’ Law Thesis
In 1618, at the age of twenty-two, he enlisted in the army of Prince Maurice of Nassau. It is not known what his duties were exactly, though Baillet suggests that he would have very likely been drawn to what would now be called the Co
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Born on March 31, 1596, René Descartes was born in La Haye, France (subsequently renamed for him, Descartes). Descartes lost his mother when he was thirteen, who died in childbirth. With his father Joachim, a lawyer, living in Châtteleraut, René spent his early years, together with his older sister Jeanne and his older brother Pierre with his grandmother, Jeanne Sain Brochard in La Haye. Shortly thereafter he relocated to the house of his great uncle, Michel Ferrand, a lawyer and Counselor of the King in Chätterlaut. Sometime in 1606 or 1607, Descartes took up studies at the Jesuit College of La Fleche, remaining there for some seven or eight years. His course of study was not untypical for the time: French, Greek and Latin, Ancient Poetry, Cicero and rhetoric, several years of philosophy (logic, morals, physics and metaphysics), followed by several years of mathematics.
About the education he received at the hands of the learned Jesuits, where he had distinguished himself as a most able student, Descartes remarked: “Languages are necessary for the understanding of ancient litera
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