Cartesianism

French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)

French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)

philosophical statement made by René Descartes

French philosopher

French theologian, philosopher, mathematician (1612-1694)

philosophical theory that mental phenomena are non-physical and that matter exists independently of mind

Cartesianism is the philosophical and scientific system of René Descartes and its subsequent development by other seventeenth century thinkers, most notably François Poullain de la Barre, Nicolas Malebranche and Baruch Spinoza. Descartes is often regarded as the first thinker to emphasize the use of reason to develop the natural sciences. For him, philosophy was a thinking system that embodied all knowledge.

French philosopher

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