第3个沉思建立的认识论模型(基于充足理由律(借用Leibniz概念),观念是对实在的表象)是奠基性的,此后一直都在被无异议地遵循,甚至延伸到Hume做出某种毁灭性的攻击之后的Kant。另一方面,Descartes的“我思故我在(Cogito ergo sum)”有意无意中以一种无比清晰的方式将自我与周围的世界割裂开来,这犹如打开了潘多拉盒子,...
Among the philosophical questions that Descartes studied, the most significant was that of the method of knowledge. Like F. Bacon he considered the ultimate purpose of knowledge to be man’s mastery over the forces of nature, the discovery and invention of technical methods, the knowledge of cau...
Descartes had many philosophers who opposed his viewpoints, but the person who criticized his philosophy was another philosopher by the name John Locke. I do not totally agree with Descartes point of view or his philosophical perception that only the mind can produce certain knowledge and that we...
Philosophical René Descartes quotes 38. “I think; therefore I am.”—René Descartes 39. “The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.”René Descartes 40. “Everything is self-evident.”—René Descartes 41. “For the very fact that my...
Throughout Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes argues for the ideas and philosophical beliefs behind skepticism. In his writings, he describes the fallibility and importance of the body of man and through extension the senses with which we observe the world. This paper will first...
Beeckman, Descartes and the force of motion.(PHILOSOPHICAL ABSTRACTS)(Issac Beeckman, Rene Descartes)(Brief article)doi:10.1098/rspb.2005.3189AnimalsFishesBody Weights and MeasuresBody SizeEnergy MetabolismAtlantic OceanModels, TheoreticalEnvironmentFeeding BehaviorBody size trends across environmental gradients ...
Descartes transformed the trial:“Descartes, who is the starting point for much of thespecifically modernphilosophical and scientific concepts, wanted to set the matter through the scope, and make this the very definition of a principle physical quantity.”It was not yet materialism, but at least...
Rene Descartes, French mathematician and philosopher, generally regarded as the founder of modern Western philosophy. He is known for his epistemological foundationalism as expressed in the cogito (‘I think, therefore I am’), his metaphysical dualism,