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  • In the liberal atmosphere of seventeenth-century Holland, the French philosopher Rene Descartes found refuge and freedom to publish.†   (source)
  • Just the names-all the Greeks, of course, and Descartes, Locke, Shaftesbury, Leibniz, Vico, Eberhard, Herder, Schiller, Kant, Rilke, Keats, Schelling, and a hundred others, loaded all the cannon and made them ready to fire.†   (source)
  • Then he said: "Last time we sat here I told you about Descartes and Spinoza.†   (source)
  • For Descartes, the mind is essentially thought.†   (source)
  • What about Descartes having a clear and distinct idea of God?†   (source)
  • Locke believed—just like Descartes and Spinoza— that the material world is a reality.†   (source)
  • Descartes must have been an odd kind of person.†   (source)
  • There is a direct line of descent from Socrates and Plato via St. Augustine to Descartes.†   (source)
  • Descartes operated then with two of these substances.†   (source)
  • Descartes believed that philosophy should go from the simple to the complex.†   (source)
  • One can say without exaggeration that Descartes was the father of modern philosophy.†   (source)
  • No, and on that point Descartes once again draws upon our idea of the perfect entity.†   (source)
  • Descartes now maintains that there are two different forms of reality—or two 'substances.'†   (source)
  • That was exactly the problem that set Descartes's thoughts going.†   (source)
  • Descartes also pointed out that only God exists independently.†   (source)
  • Neither have I, so I am looking forward to hearing what Descartes's theory was.†   (source)
  • I should add, by the way, that Descartes did not reject the possibility that animals could think.†   (source)
  • Locke repeats Aristotle's words, and when Locke uses them, they are aimed at Descartes.†   (source)
  • I can't get over the fact that Descartes compared the human body to a machine or an automaton.†   (source)
  • Descartes couldn't have liked animals very much.†   (source)
  • Descartes considered an animal to be a kind of complicated automaton.†   (source)
  • Descartes was a French philosopher who lived from 1596 to 1650.†   (source)
  • And in this he acknowledged his debt to the great philosophers before him— including Descartes.†   (source)
  • Descartes would have said that it is not inherent in the concept of a crocophant that it exists.†   (source)
  • Even Descartes could not deny that there is a constant interaction between mind and body.†   (source)
  • Descartes wanted to use the 'mathematical method' even for philosophizing.†   (source)
  • This was the very basis of Descartes's philosophy.†   (source)
  • But Descartes's doubts went even deeper.†   (source)
  • Thus Spinoza does not have the dualistic view of reality that Descartes had.†   (source)
  • According to Descartes, the human body is a perfect machine.†   (source)
  • You may recall how Descartes wished to use mathematical method for philosophical reflection.†   (source)
  • Descartes believed like Socrates and Plato that there is a connection between reason and being.†   (source)
  • This was true of Descartes, Spinoza, Hume, and Kant.†   (source)
  • This philosophical project had been preoccupying all philosophers since Descartes.†   (source)
  • "Both Descartes and Hume had drawn a sharp line between the ego and 'extended' reality.†   (source)
  • Machines like these would have terrified Descartes out of his wits.†   (source)
  • But Descartes tried to work forward from this zero point.†   (source)
  • The tradition of Descartes was very inspiring in this respect.†   (source)
  • We had better go back to Descartes's own reasoning.†   (source)
  • Descartes took a decisive step forward: he made manmaitre et proprietaire de la nature.†   (source)
  • "That was Misanthrope with 'Descartes Dream,' " he said.†   (source)
  • The statue of Descartes came to his mind first.†   (source)
  • And if having a name is a sign of having a soul, I can say that they had souls despite Descartes.†   (source)
  • As was "Descartes Dream," by Misanthrope, the second song, which I went ahead and clicked on.†   (source)
  • Descartes wanted to know if you could really know that anything was real, but he believed his ability to doubt reality proved that, while it might not be real, he was.†   (source)
  • In his Discourse on Method, Descartes raises the question of the method the philosopher must use to solve a philosophical problem.†   (source)
  • Descartes… he wanted to clear all the rubble off the site Alberto stood up, took off the red cloak, and laid it over a chair.†   (source)
  • Descartes was obliged to ask himself if there was a similar certain and exact method of philosophic reflection.†   (source)
  • So in the same way, Descartes ends up doubting absolutely everything. any philosophers before him had reached the end of the road at that very point.†   (source)
  • You recall how Descartes had a clear and distinct idea of a 'perfect entity,' on the basis of which he concluded that God exists.†   (source)
  • Descartes only meant that we all possess the idea of a perfect entity, and that inherent in that idea is the fact that this perfect entity must exist.†   (source)
  • Spinoza called these qualities God's attributes, and these two attributes are identical with Descartes's 'thought' and 'extension.'†   (source)
  • I would probably understand better how valuable these things are if I knew who Spinoza and Descartes were.†   (source)
  • According to Descartes, the idea of God is innate, it is stamped on us from birth 'like the artisan's mark stamped on his product.'†   (source)
  • But unlike Descartes, he emphasizes most particularly that it is not reason which brought him to this point but faith.†   (source)
  • Others, like Descartes, believed that it must always be possible to divide extended reality into ever smaller parts.†   (source)
  • You could of course protest, with the support of Descartes, that a lion is an animal and not a free human being with free mental faculties.†   (source)
  • Ah, but the difference between Descartes and Spinoza is not as deep-seated as many have often claimed.†   (source)
  • That's an example of the sort of 'reasoned truth' that every philosopher since Descartes had talked about.†   (source)
  • The first significant system-builder was Descartes, and he was followed by Spinoza and Leibniz, Locke and Berkeley, Hume and Kant.†   (source)
  • Descartes was a mathematician; he is considered the father of analytical geometry, and he made important contributions to the science of algebra.†   (source)
  • Just as for Descartes, whether or not man has an immortal soul was held to be more a question of reason than of faith.†   (source)
  • That's the way it was for Descartes.†   (source)
  • Descartes decided to travel around Europe, the way Socrates spent his life talking to people in Athens.†   (source)
  • The leading rationalists in the seventeenth century were Descartes, who was French; Spinoza, who was Dutch; and Leibniz, who was German.†   (source)
  • You could, fr example, say that Descartes's rationalism was a thesis—which was contradicted by Hume's empirical antithesis.†   (source)
  • Descartes claims 'God's guarantee' that whatever we perceive with our reason also corresponds to reality.†   (source)
  • He was familiar both with the rationalism of Descartes and Spinoza and the empiricism of Locke, Berkeley, and Hume.†   (source)
  • Descartes now asked himself if there was anything more he could perceive with the same intuitive certainty.†   (source)
  • You remember that Descartes believed that reality consisted of two completely separate substances, namely thought and extension.†   (source)
  • Descartes maintained that both substances originate from God, because only God himself exists independently of anything else.†   (source)
  • Here the rationalists, like Descartes, had tried to prove that there must be a God simply because we have the idea of a 'supreme being.'†   (source)
  • We say that Descartes is a dualist, which means that he effects a sharp division between the reality of thought and extended reality.†   (source)
  • Hume would probably agree with Descartes that it is essential to construct a thought process right from the ground.†   (source)
  • That God exists was therefore just as self-evident for Descartes as that a thinking being must exist.†   (source)
  • Descartes maintains that we cannot accept anything as being true unless we can clearly and distinctly perceive it.†   (source)
  • Descartes came to the conclusion that man is a dual creature that both thinks and takes up room in space.†   (source)
  • " 'When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream,' writes Descartes.†   (source)
  • It was important for Descartes to rid himself of all handed down, or received, learning before beginning his own philosophical construction.†   (source)
  • Now, Descartes did not think it reasonable to doubt everything, but he thought it was possible in principle to doubt everything.†   (source)
  • This was an idea he had always had, and it was thus self-evident to Descartes that such an idea could not possibly have come from himself.†   (source)
  • We have already noted Descartes's affinity with Plato, who also observed that mathematics and numerical ratio give us more certainty than the evidence of our senses.†   (source)
  • It is a first edition of the book of Descartes's philosophical essays published in 1637 in which his famous Discourse on Method originally appeared, and one of my most treasured possessions.†   (source)
  • Or Descartes, for that matter.†   (source)
  • You remember how Descartes indicated that 'clear and distinct' ideas in themselves could be a guarantee that they corresponded to something that really existed?†   (source)
  • According to Descartes, this is just as certain as it is inherent in the idea of a circle that all points of the circle are equidistant from the center.†   (source)
  • After a while he pointed down at the table between them and said: "The two greatest philosophers in the seventeenth century were Descartes and Spinoza.†   (source)
  • So when it was a question of 'extended' reality, Locke agreed with Descartes that it does have certain qualities that man is able to understand with his reason.†   (source)
  • On this point Kant divides man into two parts in a way not dissimilar to the way Descartes claimed that man was a 'dual creature,' one with both a body and a mind.†   (source)
  • Not until the seventeenth century did philosophers make any attempt to assemble the new ideas into a clarified philosophical system, and the first to attempt it was Descartes.†   (source)
  • And it was in Descartes's lifetime that the new natural sciences were developing a method by which to provide certain and exact descriptions of natural processes.†   (source)
  • After comprehensive studies, Descartes came to the conclusion that the body of knowledge handed down from the Middle Ages was not necessarily reliable.†   (source)
  • It's only when Spinoza identifies God with nature—or God and creation—that he distances himself a good way from both Descartes and from the Jewish and Christian doctrines.†   (source)
  • So he does the same as Descartes.†   (source)
  • Descartes made a point of the fact that ingenious inventions of that kind were actually assembled very simply from a relatively small number of parts compared with the vast number of bones, muscles, nerves, veins, and arteries that the human and the animal body consists of.†   (source)
  • You remember Descartes?†   (source)
  • Rene Descartes was born in 1596 and lived in a number of different European countries at various periods of his life.†   (source)
  • Man is master and proprietor, says Descartes, whereas the beast is merely an automaton, an animated machine, amachinaanimata .†   (source)
  • 'Descartes Dream' by Misanthrope.†   (source)
  • But for that very reason I feel his gesture has broad implications: Nietzsche was trying to apologize to the horse for Descartes.†   (source)
  • All that he had read in books, all the tranquil wisdom he had professed so glibly in his philosophy course, and the great names of Plato and Plotinus, of Spinoza and Immanuel Kant, of Hegel and Descartes, left him now, under the mastering surge of his wild Celtic superstition.†   (source)
  • Once it came to me while reading a poet, while pondering a thought of Descartes, of Pascal; again it shone out and drove its gold track far into the sky while I was in the presence of my beloved.†   (source)
  • In society she cultivated a delicate and languid magdelinism, as a great lady might, and she carried a candle in the penitential parades, side by side with ladies who had nothing to regret but an outburst of temper and a furtive glance into Descartes.†   (source)
  • Which do you prefer, Descartes or Spinoza?†   (source)
  • This is no new fact; Descartes complained of it in his exile.†   (source)
  • (All begin spreading out the games on the drums, the stools, the ground, and on their cloaks, and light long pipes): And I shall read Descartes.†   (source)
  • He read the classics of physical science: Copernicus and Galileo, Lavoisier, Newton, LaPlace, Descartes, Faraday.†   (source)
  • Every one, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place on the social ladder, and is beset by stormy passions and conflicting interests, as in Descartes' theory of pressure and impulsion.†   (source)
  • America is therefore one of the countries in the world where philosophy is least studied, and where the precepts of Descartes are best applied.†   (source)
  • How happened it that in the eighteenth century those general applications were all at once drawn from this same method, which Descartes and his predecessors had either not perceived or had rejected?†   (source)
  • Below John Huss, there is Luther; below Luther, there is Descartes; below Descartes, there is Voltaire; below Voltaire, there is Condorcet; below Condorcet, there is Robespierre; below Robespierre, there is Marat; below Marat there is Babeuf.†   (source)
  • Who does not perceive that Luther, Descartes, and Voltaire employed the same method, and that they differed only in the greater or less use which they professed should be made of it?†   (source)
  • Why did Descartes, choosing only to apply his method to certain matters, though he had made it fit to be applied to all, declare that men might judge for themselves in matters philosophical but not in matters political?†   (source)
  • …it is the tribune under the feet of Mirabeau, and a crater under the feet of Robespierre; its books, its theatre, its art, its science, its literature, its philosophy, are the manuals of the human race; it has Pascal, Regnier, Corneille, Descartes, Jean-Jacques: Voltaire for all moments, Moliere for all centuries; it makes its language to be talked by the universal mouth, and that language becomes the word; it constructs in all minds the idea of progress, the liberating dogmas which…†   (source)
  • In the seventeenth century, Bacon in the natural sciences, and Descartes in the study of philosophy in the strict sense of the term, abolished recognized formulas, destroyed the empire of tradition, and overthrew the authority of the schools.†   (source)
  • The Americans do not read the works of Descartes, because their social condition deters them from speculative studies; but they follow his maxims because this very social condition naturally disposes their understanding to adopt them.†   (source)
  • I then desired the governor to call up Descartes and Gassendi, with whom I prevailed to explain their systems to Aristotle.†   (source)
  • This great philosopher freely acknowledged his own mistakes in natural philosophy, because he proceeded in many things upon conjecture, as all men must do; and he found that Gassendi, who had made the doctrine of Epicurus as palatable as he could, and the vortices of Descartes, were equally to be exploded.†   (source)
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