RENE DESCARTES
René Descartes 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) was a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist.
His Major Works;
Discourse on the Method Principles of Philosophy
Meditations on First Philosophy La Géométrie
Discourse on the Method
Famous definition of Descartes;
«philosophy is like a tree whose roots are metaphysics and then the trunk is physics.
The branches coming out of the trunk are all the other sciences»
Within the doubt, Descartes encounters a first certainty, the cogito (“I think” in Latin).
The cogito is the self-consciousness of the thinking subject.
Indeed, so universal is the doubt, since it deals with the totality of knowledge, there is something he can not reach: it is its own condition, because doubting, I think, and
thinking, I am.
– But what am I, who am I? I am basically thinking, the latter referring to everything that is in us so that we immediately perceive for ourselves
– And the activity of the mind and consciousness characterize me: consciousness is the essence of thought. (www.the-philosophy.com)
The second truth is discovered by Descartes existence of God. It demonstrates the existence of several ways.
– The Cartesian evidence specifically proves the idea of perfect, in fact, among the ideas that are in me is the idea of God, an idea to be
sovereign, almighty, eternal, infinite (idea of perfection and infinity).
– But this idea of how perfect she could make an imperfect being?
actually, I must admit the existence of a being containing in itself all the perfection of the idea is, that is to say God.
– Therefore, God exists. (www.the-philosophy.com)
