Research Paper On Rene Descartes

Renè Descartes was a scientist in the mid-1600s. He became famous for having made an important connection between geometry and algebra, which he was known for the first modern philosopher. Renè was so important, because he was the first major figure in the philosophical movement known as rationalism, which is a method of understanding the world based on the use of reason as the mean to attain knowledge.

Renè Descartes was born on March 31,1596 at La Haye which is now known in France, Descartes. Renè has 2 step siblings and 2 relatable siblings. Anne Descartes half sister, Joachim Descartes half brother, Jeanne Descartes relatable sister, and Pierre Descartes relatable brother. His parents are Joachim Descartes and Jeanne Brochard.

Ever since his mother’s death, Renè’s father couldn’t take care of them, so he sent Renè and his full brother and sister, Pierre and Jeanne, to live and be raised by their grandmother in La Haye. His father was very concerned with good education and sent René, at age 8, to boarding school at the Jesuit college of Henri IV in La Flèche, several miles to the north, for seven years. Renè was a good student. The subjects he studied were, rhetoric and logic and the “mathematical arts,” which included music and astronomy, as well as metaphysics, natural philosophy and ethics, which equipped him well for his future as a philosopher. He spend the next four years earning a baccalaureate in law at the University of Poitiers. Renè later added theology and medicine to his studies. Renè wrote a book much later in Discourse on the Method of Rightly

Renè believed in basically clearing everything off the table, all preconceived and inherited notions, and starting fresh, putting back one by one the things that were certain, which for him began with the statement “I exist.” From this sprang his most famous quote: “I think; therefore I am.” Since Renè believed that all truths were ultimately linked, he uncover the meaning of the natural world with a rational approach, through science and mathematics in some ways an extension of the approach. Sir Francis Bacon had asserted in England a few decades prior. Philosophy is largely where the 20th century deposited Renè each century has focused on different aspects of his work his investigations in theoretical physics led many scholars to consider him a mathematician first. Renè introduced Cartesian geometry, which incorporates algebra, through his laws of refraction, he developed an empirical understanding of rainbows, and he proposed a naturalistic account of the formation of the solar system, although he felt he had to suppress much of that due to Galileo’s fate at the hands of the