Philosopher · Early modern period · France

René Descartes

1596–1650

French thinker, mathematician, and soldier who founded modern rationalism. Starting from I think, therefore I am, he rebuilt knowledge on reason in the Meditations of 1641. He lived 1596 to 1650 and died at Stockholm.

Facts

Born: 1596, La Haye, France.; Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, René Descartes
Died: 1650, Stockholm, Sweden, of pneumonia, while tutoring Queen Christina.; Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, René Descartes
School: Rationalism, its founder.; Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, René Descartes
Known for: Cogito ergo sum, mind body dualism, and analytic geometry, the coordinate system that carries his name.; Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, René Descartes

Images

Portrait of Rene Descartes by Frans Hals (Wikimedia Commons, public domain)

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