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| Western Philosophy Seventeenth century philosophy | |
|---|---|
| Name: René Descartes | |
| Birth: March 31, 1596 La Haye en Touraine [now Descartes], Indre-et-Loire, France | |
| Death: February 11 1650 (aged 53) Stockholm, Sweden | |
| School/tradition: Cartesianism, Rationalism, Foundationalism | |
| Main interests | |
| Metaphysics, Epistemology, Science, Mathematics | |
| Notable ideas | |
| Cogito ergo sum, method of doubt, Cartesian coordinate system, Cartesian dualism, ontological argument for God's existence; regarded as a founder of Modern philosophy | |
| Influences | Influenced |
| Al-Ghazali, Plato, Aristotle, Anselm, Aquinas, Ockham, Suarez, Mersenne, Sextus Empiricus, Michel de Montaigne, Duns Scotus | Spinoza, Hobbes, Arnauld, Malebranche, Pascal, Locke, Leibniz, More, Kant, Husserl, Brunschvicg, Žižek, Chomsky |
René Descartes (French IPA: [ʁə'ne de'kaʁt]) (March 31, 1596 – February 11, 1650), also known as Renatus Cartesius (latinized form), was a highly influential Fr
