1. Rene DesCartes and John Stuart Mill
Rene DesCartes (1596-1650), lived a life focused on mathematics, philosophy and science during a period of history that was not particularly accommodating for analytical thought. ... We have moral and ethical framework to rest on what DesCartes calls the Devine Command theory of ethics. ... According to DesCartes the central concept of Philosophy is the first person point of view. DesCartes evolved philosophy by theorizing that the conscious self is at the center of any philosophical perception. ... Essay Two John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) was an English scholar and philosopher who had a profou...
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