Rene_Descartes

Rene Descartes "Rene Descartes" Rene Descartes was born on March 31, 1596 in La Haye, France. Rene’s father derived from a good family and wanted nothing but the best for his sons and daughter. At the tender age of eight, Rene was sent to Jesuit College of La Fleche where he studied a wide variety of subjects such as Aristotelian philosophy and logic, but mainly excelled in math. As the years passed, his health began to jeopardize his studies so in 1612 Rene left Jesuit College and headed for Paris. After living in Paris, Descartes studied and then received a degree in law from University of Poitiers in 1616. Just one year later, Rene joined the army of Prince Maurice of Orange and then enlisted in the military school at Breda. Finally, after traveling all over Europe, Descartes decided to end his travels and reside in Holland in 1628 where he began to write his three famous books, Discourse on Method, Meditations on First Philosophy and Principles of Philosophy where his passion for philosophy and mathematics could shine. In my term paper, I will be focusing on specific passages from Meditations on First Philosophy, descartes, god, being, mind, because, perfect, existence, philosophy, through, world, reality, idea, exists, doubt, rene, must, first, body, about, way, truth, senses, science, physical, nature, meditations, mathematics, intellect, himself, feels, everything, completely, after, time, therefore