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    Rene Descartes is the first modern French philosopher with his work La Géométri e from which we know the Cartesian geometry. He was born in his grandmother’s house. His father was Joachim Descartes and his mother is Jeanne Brochard. His name Rene Descartes was named after his grandfather named Rene Brochard. Rene Descartes was a Roman Catholic and was baptized at Saint George in La Haye Church. His mother died after she gave birth to him. But, Rene’s health was quite unstable due to his tuberculosis

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    Rene Descartes Rene Descartes was a philosopher of the 17th century. He had this keen interest in the search for certainty. For he was unimpressed with the way philosophy is during their time. He mused that nothing certain was coming forth from all the philosophical ideologies. He had considered that the case which philosophy was in was due to the fact that it was not grounded to something certain. He was primarily concerned with intellectual certainty, meaning that something that is certain through

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    Rene Descartes is the sole reason teenagers have to sit through fifteen days of mind corrosive and non-existent scenarios that adults will likely never encounter. The lack of visual representations of mathematical equations would prevent us from discovering and mass producing ninety-five percent of retail. Descartes had a wealthy background in the spring starting off his life, given his family was separated by death. He has portrayed ideas relating to the fundamentals of algebra and philosophy that

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    René Magritte once said “Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.” Nearly his whole life’s work was devoted to uncovering what was seen by the eye. His work gave a new perspective to many daily things, and helped to popularize a new style of art, surrealism. René Magritte was born on November 21, 1898 in Lessines, Belgium. He was the the oldest of three boys in a well-off family. Two major events influenced his career as an artist. The first was

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    René Descartes René Descartes was a French philosopher and also mathematician. His method of doubt led him to the famous "cogito ergo sum" when translated means "I am thinking, therefore I exist". This cogito was the foundation for Descartes' quest for certain knowledge. He explored doubt and how we can prove our own existence, by taking the first steps of scepticism. His book "Meditations On First Philosophy", was written in six parts. Each

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    mind, I think the personalistic theory along with the scientific theory has Descartes using his achievements and contribution’s changed the viewpoint, the progress and redirected the course of philosophy that we still hold in high standard today. If Rene Descartes would have not written some of his famous doctrines in the various fields, such as mathematics and psychology, which would no doubt prove his intelligence, his creative talents and his energetic quietness. The naturalistic theory reflects

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    1. About Rene Descartes Meditations: a) What is the function of the doubt in Descartes’ Meditations? What are the different stages of doubt in the Meditations? What does Descartes find to be ultimately indubitable to constitute the foundation of his new philosophy? - Descartes function of doubt in Meditations is basically to overthrow skepticism on its own ground, to begin by doubting everything you know and everything you think you know. The first stage of doubt is the argument of physical misconception

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    René Descartes uses Discourse on Method to explain his view that god exists and that human nature consists of the body and soul, which both interact but can exist without one another. He believed that the body occupies space but has no mental properties. René believed that it was in fact the soul or mind that does the thinking or sleeping. Using animals as an example, he highlights in the text how humans unlike animals possess a soul. In the text, René originally viewed things to be beyond

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    René Magritte Belgian Surrealist artist René Magritte was a master not only of the obvious, but of the obscure as well. In his artwork, Magritte toyed with everyday objects, human habits and emotions, placing them in foreign contexts and questioning their familiar meanings. He suggested new interpretations of old things in his deceivingly simple paintings, making the commonplace profound and the rational irrational. He painted his canvasses in the same manner as he lived his life -- in strange modesty

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    Rene Descartes is an extremely influential philosopher from the 17th century and is widely considered the father of modern philosophy. One of Descartes’s most famous philosophies is his cogito ergo sum statement: I think, therefore, I am (Descartes, 2008). He believed that because he is a thing that thinks, then he must have some kind of consciousness or awareness of the world. Because he has consciousness, he reasons that he must exist, especially since he is aware that he is a thing that thinks

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