21. CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Rene Descartes descartes, rene. Bartleby.com Authors Nonfiction Harvard Classics René descartes. I think, hence I am. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04744b.htm

Home Encyclopedia Summa Fathers ... Z (Renatus Cartesius), philosopher and scientist, born at La Haye France, 31 March, 1596; died at Stockholm, Sweden, 11 February 1650. He studied at the Jesuit Galileo frightened Descartes who preferred to avoid all collision with ecclesiastical authority. He deferred the publication of this clever work without, however, losing hope of eventually bringing it out. In 1649, yielding to the entreaties of Queen Christina, he went to Sweden, and died at Stockholm of inflammation of the lungs. Aristotle God Cogito, ergo sum God exists God God The presence in us of this idea of God God enlightens us as to His existence. Whatever the manner of our questioning it gives us always from the depth of its fulness the one reply, Ego sum qui sum . Since then the veracity of God potentia These clear and distinct notions constitute of themselves the object of the understanding, and one may say that they are all involved in the idea of perfect being. Whether I understand, or pass judgment or reason, it is always that idea which I perceive and my understanding could have no other object, seeing that its sphere of action is always the infinite, the eternal and the necessary. To advance in knowledge is to progress in the knowledge of God Himself. (Rep. aux 2es obj.) But thought has another dominant form, viz. freedom. For Descartes this function of the mind is a fact "of which reason can never convince us", but one which "we experience in ourselves", and this fact is so evident" that it may be considered one of the most generally known ideas" (Rep. aux 3es obj.; Rep. aux 5es obj.- Princ., 1re partie). Not only is this freedom a primordial and undeniable datum of consciousness: it is, in a way, infinite like

22. The Philosophy Of René Descartes - Page 1 An overview of the significance of descartes' philosophy. http://radicalacademy.com/phildescartes1.htm

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23. RENE DESCARTES Short profile along with links to some of his works. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/4753/descartes.html

Descartes' Life Rene Descartés was born near Châtellerault, France in 1596. His family was well off, and therefore he could afford an education. However, Descartés was so sickly as a child, that he did not attend his lessons until he felt like getting out of bed. Descartés would later give credit for much of his philosophy to the fact that he had hours to ponder the mysteries of the world while he was in bed. Many people claimed that his death in 1650 was caused by the fact that he had to awake at 5:00 a.m. to tutor the Queen of Sweden. Descartes was also a soldier in two armies. During The Thirty Years' War, Descartes rediscovered his love for mathematics and philosophy, and therefore quit his job as a soldier to once again pursue his studies. Descartés' Philosophy HIS WORKS Rene Descartés wrote several volumes. Among his famous works are Meditations on Philosophy Principles of philosophy and Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason, and Seeking Truth in the Sciences WORKS ON INTERNET Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason, and Seeking Truth in the Sciences

24. Descartes Indepth biographical profile of the great thinker takes a look at his contributions to mathematics, above all else. Includes related links. René descartes. Born 31 March 1596 in La Haye (now descartes) Touraine, France http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Descartes.html

Born: 31 March 1596 in La Haye (now Descartes),Touraine, France Died: 11 Feb 1650 in Stockholm, Sweden Click the picture above to see nine larger pictures Show birthplace location Previous (Chronologically) Next Biographies Index Previous (Alphabetically) Next Main index was a philosopher whose work, , includes his application of algebra to geometry from which we now have Cartesian geometry. Clavius . While in the school his health was poor and he was granted permission to remain in bed until 11 o'clock in the morning, a custom he maintained until the year of his death. School had made Descartes understand how little he knew, the only subject which was satisfactory in his eyes was mathematics. This idea became the foundation for his way of thinking, and was to form the basis for all his works. Descartes spent a while in Paris, apparently keeping very much to himself, then he studied at the University of Poitiers. He received a law degree from Poitiers in 1616 then enlisted in the military school at Breda. In 1618 he started studying mathematics and mechanics under the Dutch scientist Isaac Beeckman, and began to seek a unified science of nature. After two years in Holland he travelled through Europe. Then in 1619 he joined the Bavarian army. From 1620 to 1628 Descartes travelled through Europe, spending time in Bohemia (1620), Hungary (1621), Germany, Holland and France (1622-23). He spent time in 1623 in Paris where he made contact with

25. Rene Descartes And The Legacy Of Mind/Body Dualism MIND AND BODY René descartes to William James. by Robert H. Wozniak.RENÉ descartes AND THE LEGACY OF MIND/BODY DUALISM. http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/Mind/Descartes.html

MIND AND BODY: by Robert H. Wozniak The 17th Century: Reaction to the Dualism of Mind and Body The 18th Century: Mind, Matter, and Monism The 19th Century: Mind and Brain ... Trance and Trauma: Functional Nervous Disorders and the Subconscious Mind De homine was completed in Holland about 1633, on the eve of the condemnation of Galileo. When Descartes' friend and frequent correspondent, Marin Mersenne, wrote to him of Galileo's fate at the hands of the Inquisition, Descartes immediately suppressed his own treatise. As a result, the world's first extended essay on physiological psychology was published only well after its author's death. In this work, Descartes proposed a mechanism [see figure 2] for automatic reaction in response to external events. According to his proposal, external motions affect the peripheral ends of the nerve fibrils , which in turn displace the central ends. As the central ends are displaced, the pattern of interfibrillar space is rearranged and the flow of animal spirits is thereby directed into the appropriate nerves. It was Descartes' articulation of this mechanism for automatic, differentiated reaction that led to his generally being credited with the founding of reflex theory.

26. Mind And Body By Robert H. Wozniak, Bryn Mawr College. History of philosophical and scientific reactions to the Cartesian impasse . Spanish translation available. http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exhibitions/Mind/

MIND AND BODY: by Robert H. Wozniak Modified from the Catalogue Accompanying an Exhibition of Books from the Collections of the National Library of Medicine, Held in Honor of the Centennial Celebration of the American Psychological Association, August 7 to December 15, 1992 The original exhibition was sponsored by National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland; and the American Psychological Association, Washington D.C. 1992 A translation into Spanish has been prepared and made available by Miguel Angel de la Cruz Vives. Acknowledgements TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction The 17th Century: Reaction to the Dualism of Mind and Body The 18th Century: Mind, Matter, and Monism The 19th Century: Mind and Brain ... Biological Consciousness and the Experience of the Transcendent: William James and American Functional Psychology [By Eugene Taylor, Harvard University Medical School] CATALOGUE OF THE EXHIBIT REFERENCES AND TITLES CONSULTED Forum Guest Exhibitions ... Serendip Home Send us your comments at Serendip

27. Rene Descartes Een virtueel interview in de hel met rene descartes door Herman Philipse. http://www.leidenuniv.nl/mare/arx/lustrum/21.html

René Descartes (1596 -1650) Go To: Hell Een virtueel interview met de wijsgeer René Descartes Door Herman Philipse en zijn maîtresse Beatrice Plaats: De Hel Datum: 8 februari 2000 Er komt een leeftijd dat je rijp wordt voor buitenechtelijke escapades. Ik ontsnap niet aan deze wetmatigheid maar omdat de realiteit vaak weerbarstig is, heb ik me een fictieve maîtresse aangeschaft. Ze is jong en bevallig, ze heet Beatrice, en ze heeft een passie voor de wijsbegeerte, vooral voor het werk van René Descartes (1596-1650). Het kostte Beatrice en mij geen moeite het eens te worden over de bestemming van onze virtuele wittebroodsweken. We wilden ons idool Descartes te spreken krijgen. De vraag was alleen: waar zouden we hem kunnen treffen? De zoekmachine Altavista bracht ons op een idee. Bij het commando ‘go’ vonden we ergens de bestemming ‘to Hell’. ‘Ecco’, riep Beatrice uit, ‘daar moet René D. zitten. Zijn werk werd toch in 1663 op de index geplaatst?’ Dus klikten we op ‘to Hell’. Het duurde eindeloos voordat de heftig snorrende computer de volgende tekst op het scherm wist te toveren (in het Italiaans): ‘In het midden van de reis door ons leven Hervond ik mijzelf in een duister woud

28. Online Literature Library - Rene Descartes Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason, and SeekingTruth in the Sciences. This Online Literature Library is sponsored http://www.literature.org/authors/descartes-rene/

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29. CBC Infoculture Review The Thirteenth Floor begins with a quote from rene descartes, I think therefore I am. Large ideas are not the things this movie ends up wrestling though, and they're not the things I ended up wrestling with either. http://infoculture.cbc.ca/archives/filmtv/filmtv_05311999_thirteenfloor.html

30. Descartes, René (1596-1650) -- From Eric Weisstein's World Of Scientific Biogra Biography of the French mathematician, scientist, and philosopher outlines his contributions to the scientific revolution. http://www.treasure-troves.com/bios/Descartes.html

Branch of Science Philosophers Nationality French French scientific philosopher who developed a theory known as the mechanical philosophy. This philosophy was highly influential until superseded by Newton's methodology, and maintained, for example, that the universe was a plenum in which no vacuum could exist. Descartes believed that matter had no inherent qualities, but was simply the "brute stuff" which occupied space. He divided reality into the res cognitas (consciousness, mind) and res extensa (matter, extension). In (1664) and (1649), he expounded the view that an animal was an automaton lacking both sensation and self-awareness, and that only man was endowed with a soul. Descartes also generalized Harvey's mechanical interpretation of circulation, believing that the heart is an automatic mechanical pump. Descartes also believed that colors were caused by the rotation of "spheres" of light, using the tennis ball as a model of a spinning sphere. Unlike Newton , Descartes believed that white light was the pristine form. Descartes gave the first formulation of what is now known as Snell's law of refraction Descartes believed that God created the universe as a perfect clockwork mechanism of vortical motion that functioned deterministically thereafter without intervention.

31. Mathematics And Rene Descartes College essay relating to descartes' contributions to mathematics. http://www.math.psu.edu/tseng/class/descartes.html

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34. Descartes A brief discussion of the life and works of rene descartes, with links to electronic texts and additional information by Garth Kemerling. http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/desc.htm

Philosophy Pages F A Q Dictionary ... scholastic philosophy and troubled by skepticism of the sort expounded by Montaigne , Descartes soon conceived a comprehensive plan for applying mathematical methods in order to achieve perfect certainty in human knowledge. During a twenty-year period of secluded life in Holland, he produced the body of work that secured his philosophical reputation. Descartes moved to Sweden in 1649, but did not survive his first winter there. Although he wrote extensively, Descartes chose not to publish his earliest efforts at expressing the universal method and deriving its consequences. The Regulae ad directionem ingenii Rules for the Direction of the Mind ) (1628) contain his first full statement of the principles underlying the method and his confidence in the success of their application. In Le Monde The World ) (1634), Descartes clearly espoused a Copernican astronomy, but he withheld the book from the public upon learning of Galileo's condemnation. Descartes finally presented (in French) his rationalist vision of the progress of human knowledge in the Discourse on Method ) (1637). In this

35. Rene Descartes Full English texts of descartes' key works, the Meditations and Discourse on Method. Also includes frequently asked questions, background information, links. http://www.renedescartes.com/

Home Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences Meditations Essay ... Resources REN DESCARTES (1596-1650) "Cogito Ergo Sum" ("I think, therefore I am.") Ren Descartes was born on March 31st, 1596 in the town of La Haye in the south of France, the son of Joachim Descartes, a Councilor in Parliament and and intellectual who made certain to provide a good learning environment for his son. In 1606, at the age of 8, René attended the Jesuit college of Henri IV in La Fl che, where he studied literature, grammar, science, and mathematics. In 1614, he left La Fl che to study civil and cannon Law at Poitiers. In 1616, he received his baccalaureate and licentiate degrees in Law. Aside from his Law degrees, Descartes also spent time studying philosophy, theology, and medicine. After a short stay in the military, Descartes went on to lead a quiet life, continuing his intellectual pursuits, writing philosophical essays, and exploring the world of science and mathematics. In 1637, he published "geometry", in which his combination of algebra and geometry gave birth to analytical geometry, better known as Cartesian geometry. But the most important contribution Descartes made were his philosophical writings; Descartes, who was convinced that science and mathematics could be used to explain everything in nature, was the first to describe the physical universe in terms of matter and motion, seeing the universe a as giant mathematically designed engine. Descartes wrote three important texts: Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences, Meditations on First Philosophy, and Principles of Philosophy.

36. Rene Descartes At PhilosophyClassics.com -- Essays, Resources A biographical essay, some links and resources, and a sectionalized etext of his Discourse on the Method. http://www.philosophyclassics.com/philosophers/Descartes/

Part of the Classics Network , a leading provider of online resources for the humanities. Literature Classics.com Philosophy Classics.com —Advertisement Home Help Login Contact Rene Descartes the founder of modern Western philosophy DESCARTES, RENÉ (1596—1650), French philosopher, was born at La Haye, in Touraine, midway between Tours and Poitiers, on the 31st of March 1596, and died at Stockholm on the 11th of February 1650. The house where he was born is still shown, and a métairie about 3 m. off retains the name of Les Cartes. His family on both sides was of Poitevin.descent. Joachim Descartes, his father, having purchased a commission as counsellor in the parlement of Rennes, introduced the family into that demi-noblesse of the robe which, between the bourgeoisie and the high nobility, maintained a lofty rank in Frenc... [read entire biography] Source Public Domain This page is maintained by our Editorial Team. Become an Expert and help us build this site! These essays offer analysis of the author's life and work. Many of them have been submitted by users, and are assigned an editorial rating on a scale from one to five stars to assist you in evaluating their worth. See also: Note on Essays Editorial Policy get a free printed certificate and stand the chance of winning $2000 Evaluating Descartes' Dreaming Hypothesis A critical evaluation of a slightly modified version of Descartes' argument.

37. Rene Descartes Note the following has been abstracted from the Grolier Encyclopedia. rene descartes.The French philosopher rene descartes, b. Mar. 31, 1596, d. Feb. http://pratt.edu/~arch543p/help/Descartes.html

Note: the following has been abstracted from the Grolier Encyclopedia. Rene Descartes The French philosopher Rene Descartes, b. Mar. 31, 1596, d. Feb. 11, 1650, was one of the most important and influential thinkers in human history and is sometimes called the founder of modern philosophy. Writing at the beginning of the scientific revolution, he made major contributions to both philosophy and mathematics. His principal philosophical work, Meditations on First Philosophy, was first published in 1641, the year before Galileo Galilei died and Isaac Newton was born. One of his two main aims in philosophy was to provide a conceptual foundation for the new mechanical physics based on the Copernican system, which tried to explain everything in the created world external to human beings solely by the shapes, sizes, and motions of bodies. Because he lived at a time when traditional ideas were being questioned, he also sought to devise a method for reaching the truth. This concern and his method of systematic doubt had an enormous impact on the subsequent development of philosophy. Life and Works Born in Touraine, France, Descartes was educated at the Jesuit academy of La Fleche in traditional Aristotelian philosophy. After receiving a law degree in 1616 at the University of Poitiers, he traveled through Europe as a volunteer in a Dutch and then a Bavarian army. In his early twenties he began working on problems in mathematics and mechanics under the influence of the Dutch scientist Isaac Beeckman, and he first conceived of developing a unified science of nature.

38. Rene Descartes Web directory of rene descartes, from projectlinks.org. http://www.projectlinks.org/descartes/

Rene Descartes Rene Descartes was a gifted mathematician who invented analytic geometry. Rene Descartes showed a relationship between algebraic equations and geometric figures. He was a masterful philosopher and had recently witnessed the persecution of Kepler and Galileo for their scientific heresy. His most important findings was empirical observation. He also believed that deduction and rational speculation could be used to explain the world fully. His findings provided a new basis for religion. Rene Descartes - from Austin College. Descartes’ Epistemology - by Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Rene Descartes - short discussion of the main outlines of the thought of Rene Descartes. Rene Descartes and the Legacy of Mind/Body Dualism - by Robert H. Wozniak. Rene Descartes - from the University of Tennessee at Martin. Rene Descartes (1595-1650) - from Oregon State University. Rene Descartes - by Alfred Weber. Rene Descartes (1596-1650) - slide by University of Minnesota Duluth. Rene Descartes - spotlight on neuroscience.

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