Descartes, René

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• Descartes, René — Des·cartes (dā kärtʹ), René. 1596 1650. French mathematician, philosopher, and scientist who is considered the father of analytic geometry and the founder of modern rationalism. His main works, Meditations on First Philosophy (1641) and… …   Universalium

• Descartes, René — (1596–1650)    Philosopher.    Descartes was born in La Haye, France, and was educated at the Jesuit College of La Flèche. After a short military and legal career, he settled in Holland until a year before his death when he moved to Sweden at the …   Who’s Who in Christianity

• Descartes, René — (1596 1650)    French philosopher Rene´ Descartes challenged scepticism and scholastism while creating a body of work sufficient to earn him the title Father of Modern Philosophy . This title refers to his emphasis upon individual reason and… …   Christian Philosophy

• Descartes, René — (1596 1650) Together with Immanuel Kant and David Hume , the French philosopher René Descartes is one of the founding figures of modern Western philosophy. Descartes also made significant contributions to mathematics and the science of mechanics …   Dictionary of sociology

• Descartes, René — (1596 1650)    philosopher, scholar    Born in La Haye, Touraine, the son of a minor nobleman, René Descartes began his education at the Jesuit school of La Flèche in Anjou. He studied law at the university of Poitiers, and in 1618 entered the… …   France. A reference guide from Renaissance to the Present

• Descartes, René — (1596–1650) French mathematician and founding father of modern philosophy. Born in La Haye, near Tours, Descartes was educated at the new Jesuit college at La Flèche, before reading law at Poitiers. In 1618 he enlisted at his own expense in the… …   Philosophy dictionary

• Descartes, René — (1596 1650)    A French rationalist philosopher who according to the British physician and alienist Forbes Benignus Winslow (1810 1874) was plagued by the voice of an invisible person after a period of confinement. Reportedly, this voice urged… …   Dictionary of Hallucinations

• Descartes, René — ► (1596 1650) Filósofo y matemático francés. Su elaboración filosófica parte de las ideas «claras y distintas» y de la duda metódica como método para alcanzar la verdad. Sus principales obras son El discurso del método (1637), Meditaciones acerca …   Enciclopedia Universal

• DESCARTES, RENÉ —    the father of modern philosophy, born at La Haye, in Touraine; was educated at the Jesuit College of La Flèche, where he made rapid progress in all that his masters could teach him, but soon grew sceptical as to their methods of inquiry;… …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

• Descartes , René du Perron — (1596–1650) French mathematician, philosopher, and scientist Descartes was the son of a counselor of the Britanny parlement; his mother, who died shortly after his birth, left him sufficient funds to make him financially independent. Born at La… …   Scientists