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Rene Descartes: The Man Of Meditation

Rene Descartes: The Man Of Meditation

Running head: René Descartes: The Man of Meditation

A Brief History and Interview of René
Descartes: The Man of Meditation
Danielle Ennis
 
René Descartes
René Descartes, philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. His philosophy is called Cartesianism (from Cartesius, Latin form of his name). Often called the father of modern philosophy, he is regarded as the bridge between scholasticism and all philosophy that followed him. Primarily interested in mathematics, he founded Analytic Geometry and originated the Cartesian Coordinates and Cartesian curves. To algebra he contributed the treatment of negative roots and the convention of exponent notation. Descartes also contributed to optics, physiology, and psychology.
René Descartes was born in La Haye, Touraine, March 31, 1596.   “His father was a counselor of the Parliament of Britainy. Descartes was also the grandson and great grandson of physicians, on his mother's side” (Westfall, 1995).
   In 1606 at the age of eight, Descartes entered the Jesuit College of La Fleche in Anjou, one of the most famous schools of the time.“He studied there until 1612, studying classics, logic and traditional Aristotelian philosophy. He also learnt mathematics from the books of Clavius” (O'Connor & Robertson, 1997).   “Descartes clearly benefited to a great extent from this

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