Rene+Descartes

Rene Descartes ( March 31, 1596 - February 11, 1650) Rene Descartes was born in La Haye on March 31, 1596. He was one of the most well know scientists/philosopher of his time. He was known as "The Father of Modern Philosophy". He was a Councilmen in Parliament and an intellectual that wanted a good educational environment for his son. Descartes made many great contributions to the modern world but one of the greatest and by far the most important was that he was the first to say that the physical universe was made up of matter and motion. He said that everything in nature could be explained by science and math. He saw the universe as a mathematically designed machine. He did most of his best thinking in the morning while in bed. He got pneumonia and died on February 11, 1650 at the age of 54.

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Rene Descartes, born in 1596 at La Haye in Touraine, is recognized with the "Father of Modern Philosophy" award for his achievements in the philosophical and science fields. He started the idea of Methodic Doubt. This was doubting the truth in ones beliefs in order to determine the truth. Basically he only want to believe what can actually be proven. Also, he was convinced that mathematics and science could be used to explain everyting in nature. He was the first to desribe the universe in terms of matter and motion. Of course there were certain people, like contemorary religious thinkers, that did not believe Descartes, but he just worked against them and used his theories and facts to prove it against them. Descartes definatly impacted the world today. Most of the ideas he expressed in his piece "Meditations" were strongly rejected by religious thinkers but were very important to the scientific reveltoution of the 17th century. As we know the universe is made up of matter and motion and this is an accepted belief by all so he was correct when he was the first to describe the universe in terms of matter and motion.

__Awarded the title "Father of Modern Philosophy__"

Wanted Dead or Alive Reward: $100,000   Rene Decartes wanted dead or alive for stating in his "Trademark" argument that everybody believes in God from birth. This is a false statement and made some people very angry. His theory of doubt proved to be a stretch. The theory is that you should only believe what you can prove. He said this to all situations in life and people thought that it could only be true for certain situations or items. He also said that you should doubt all knowlege unless it can be proven. This is false becasue you can't prove everything in the world and there is some stuff that you just know. For these crimes Descartes is wanted dead or alive with a reward of $100,000.

Wiki Page Notebook Activity - Acrostic Poem

Directions
 * 1) Take Descartes and write it vertically
 * 2) Now for each letter, write something about him or what he did
 * 3) Use historical information and well - developed senteces

Name: Period:**
 * Grade Sheet
 * 1) The assignment was turned in on time. If late, how may days?__ 10% off for each day.
 * 2) The student used historical information for each letter of the name.......20pts
 * 3) The student used well - develpoed sentences for each letter of the name..........20pts
 * 4) The student did not repeat information......20pts

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