Rene Descartes was a rationalist who believed that knowledge of the world can be gained by the exercise of pure reason, while empiricist like Locke believed that knowledge of the world came through senses. Descartes from his meditations deduced from intuitive first principles the existence of self,...
The main feature of Descartes’s philosophy is the dualism of soul and body—of thinking substance and extended substance. In identifying matter with extension, Descartes considers it not so much as physical substance but rather as stereometric space. In contrast to the medieval concept of a fini...
He writes, “By the name of God I understand a substance that is infinite, independent, all-knowing, all powerful, and which myself and everything else…have been created.”(16) Descartes uses this description of God to display the distinction between God and man. 916 Words 4 Pages ...