Running head: René Descartes: The Man of Meditation A Brief History and Interview of René Descartes: The Man of Meditation Danielle Ennis René Descartes René Descartes, philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. ... œHe studied there until 1612, studying classics, logic and traditional Aristotelian philosophy. ... "By 1619, under the influence of the Dutch mathematician and scientist Beeckman, Descartes began his exceptionally abundant mathematical studies of natural phenomena. ... I questioned belief in the senses; if they are all an illusion crea...

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And each thinker considering this question has own attitude towards it. ... Hobbes was also very influenced by the progress, new openness, scientific methods, inventions, and was talking about the necessity of the science, which should study politics. ... He asserted that if people would study politics they would be able to affect on the situation and provide security the citizens. Besides, Hobbes was influenced by another great thinker - Rene Descartes, who asserted that animal is a difficult machine. ...

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Aristotle's collection of work causes suspicion to the modern world, it also begs to question where is knowledge originated. ... Thus no one before 1600 seriously questioned either the belief that Greek civilization and philosophy derived from Egypt, or that the chief ways in which they had been transmitted were through Egyptian colonizations of Greece and later Greek study in Egypt." ...

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