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René Descartes ( uitspraak ⓘ) of gelatiniseerd Renatus Cartesius ( La Haye en Touraine, 31 maart 1596 – Stockholm, 11 februari 1650) was een uit Frankrijk afkomstige filosoof en wiskundige, die een groot deel van zijn leven in de Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden woonde.
This interaction between the mind and body was first put forward by the philosopher René Descartes. Descartes believed that the mind was non-physical and permeated the entire body, but that the mind and body interacted via the pineal gland.
Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences (French: Discours de la Méthode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la vérité dans les sciences) is a philosophical and autobiographical treatise published by René Descartes in 1637.
We think of René Descartes as a French philosopher, given that he was born in La Haye, France. Descartes, however, felt most at home among the Dutch.
After 350 years a hitherto unknown manuscript based on a text by the world-famous philosopher René Descartes (1596–1650) has been unearthed by Dr. Erik Jan Bos at the Leiden University Libraries. With the original text being lost, this re-discovery is all the more important.
In his final philosophical treatise, The Passions of the Soul ( French: Les Passions de l'âme ), completed in 1649 and dedicated to Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia, René Descartes contributes to a long tradition of philosophical inquiry into the nature of "the passions".
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