René Descartes
René Descartes (31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) ek mashuur French philosopher aur physicist rahaa. Uu dui khaas buk He physics aur philosophy ke uppar likhis rahaa.
| Western Philosophy 17th-century philosophy | |
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René Descartes. Ii chapa ke Frans Halsutaris hae, 1648. | |
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Name |
René Descartes |
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Birth |
31 March 1596 |
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Death |
11 February 1650 (aged 53) |
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School/tradition |
Cartesianism, Rationalism, Foundationalism |
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Main interests |
Metaphysics, Epistemology, Science, Mathematics |
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Notable ideas |
Cogito ergo sum, Methodic Doubt, Cartesian coordinate system, Cartesian dualism |
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Influences |
Plato, Aristotle, Ibn al-Haytham, Averroes, Avicenna, al-Ghazali, Anselm of Canterbury, St. Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, William of Ockham, Francisco Suárez, Marin Mersenne, Sextus Empiricus, Michel de Montaigne, Duns Scotus |
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Influenced |
Baruch Spinoza, Thomas Hobbes, Antoine Arnauld, Nicolas Malebranche, Pascal |
Descartes aur physics
badloAapan buk Discourse on Method (1637) me Descartes scientific method ke baare me likhis jiske uu apne se banais rahaa. Uu shapes (Geometry), light (Dioptrics), aur weather (Meteorology) ke baare me bhi likhis hae. Uske baad uu ek rakam se shapes ke coordinates se describe kare ke suruu karis aur ek aur theory banais jiske rainbow ke naam se jaana jaawe hae. Descartes ke physics ke baad me Sir Isaac Newton bhi kaam me laais jon ki uske aur James Hook ke baare me likis hae ki: "Agar jo ham duur talak dekhe sakaa hae tab ham giant ke kandhaa pe kharraa rahaa!"
Descartes aur philosophy
badloAapan buk Meditations on First Philosophy (1641) me Descartes aapan scientific method ke kaam me laae ke philosophical sawaal ke dekhis hae. Uu skepticism ke virod me bahas karis hae.