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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. Zijn benadering van het probleem van de kennis en de aard van ...
Descartes schreef over Nederland: ‘Tussen al deze mensen die zeer bedrijvig zijn en zich meer bekommeren om hun eigen zaken dan dat ze nieuwsgierig zijn naar die van anderen, heb ik even eenzaam en teruggetrokken kunnen leven als in de meest afgelegen woestenij, zonder dat ik het gerief hoefde te missen van een drukke stad.’. .
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The Latin cogito, ergo sum, usually translated into English as " I think, therefore I am ", [a] is the "first principle" of René Descartes 's philosophy. He originally published it in French as je pense, donc je suis in his 1637 Discourse on the Method, so as to reach a wider audience than Latin would have allowed. [1]
René Descartes - Philosopher, Rationalism, Dualism: Descartes said that he went to the Netherlands to enjoy a greater liberty than was available anywhere else and to avoid the distractions of Paris and friends so that he could have the leisure and solitude to think. (He had inherited enough money and property to live independently.) The Netherlands was a haven of tolerance, where Descartes ...
Descartes: The Dutch Connection. 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. In 1618 he joined the army of the Dutch commander, Maurice of Nassau and even long after leaving the military, he chose to reside in the United Provinces of the ...
René Descartes - Philosophy, Mathematics, Legacy: In 1644, 1647, and 1648, after 16 years in the Netherlands, Descartes returned to France for brief visits on financial business and to oversee the translation into French of the Principles, the Meditations, and the Objections and Replies. (The translators were, respectively, Picot, Charles d’Albert, duke de Luynes, and Claude Clerselier.) In ...
