Cogito ergo Sum ("I think therefore I am")
Queen Christina of Sweden and Rene Descartes
Cogito ergo Sum ("I think therefore I am")
Rene Descartes started by deducting that the first thing he could be sure of was his own thoughts. If he was doubting, then there must be someone doing the doubting. It is this that led to his famous dictum in Latin - Cogito Ergo Sum (“I think therefore I am”). Descartes believed that it was only his capacity to think and deduction that was reliable – he believed relying on the senses were open to doubt.
From this premise, Descartes was able to offer an ontological proof of a benevolent God. Descartes believed that the idea of God’s existence was immediately inferable from a “clear and distinct” idea of a supremely perfect being.
René Descartes was a French philosopher, mathematician, scientist and lay Catholic who invented analytic geometry, linking the previously separate fields of geometry and algebra.
Born : 31st March, 1596, Descartes, France
Died: 11th February, 1650, Stockholm, Sweden
Everyone think but a few are engaged in philosophical thinking. Also, we encounter somebody who think great. Thinking is a human psychological mechanism that works round the clock. Non-stop thinking by someone to find the truth often confronted by challenges to derive the metabolism, the chemical processes that occur within a living organism in order to maintain life. We need to take it head on to pave way for someone later to take action of a problem or difficulty like Rene Descartes' mathematical theory found Issac Newton to make great inventions.
While on the subject, I think it is inevitable to share the experiences of one of my friends who had undergone severe brainstorming for the last 36 years. The echoing sound of his thinking or hallucinations and also experiencing unbearable torture which have had put into shame the notorious Hitler's gas chambers. He had been treated by a psychiatrist for avoiding chemical imbalances in his brain. His agony to get rid of unhealthy trend of practices and his veiling to live like any other normal person in this world have moved me to a greater extent. I would like to offer him a helping hand to free him from all sorts of negative elements and keep him to enjoy happy happenings of this world.
He confided in me that a mosquito and fly have stings and itching in body parts all that contributes to kill him inch by inch. He had seen deadly tabloids which were nerve cracking and leads to horrifying visuals. He recollects that by God's mercy and for his tremendous self-belief and self-respect he have succeeded to live against all odds. Your prayers and wishes are solicited to save him from this never ending traumas of his own existence in this world. So petrified is his life and times and someone abetting to kill him in the blind alleys cannot be ruled out. Let's hope that he is freed from all these animals and dogs which also responding to him.
He wonders that what is the mission of his life. By suffering body and mental blows is he contributing to the happiness of others. But, nobody can waste his entire life being a good shepherd.
All the best bro and wish you to enjoy the fruits of labor !
Descartes has been heralded as the first modern philosopher. He is famous for having made an important connection between geometry and algebra, which allowed for the solving of geometrical problems by way of algebraic equations. His work in mathematics has contributed for the later inventions of Isaac Newton.
A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY :
Rene Descartes (1596 – 1650) French philosopher and mathematician. Descartes is considered the founder of modern philosophy for successfully challenging many of the accepted wisdom of the medieval scholastic traditions of Aristotelian philosophy. Descartes promoted the importance of using human reason to deduct the truth. This principle of reason was an important aspect of the enlightenment and the development of modern thought.
Early Life Rene Descartes :
Rene Descartes was born in La Haye en Touraine, France on 31 March 1596. His family were Roman Catholics, though they lived in a Protestant Huguenots area of Poitou. His mother died when he was one year old, and he was brought up by his grandmother and great uncle.
The young Descartes studied at a Jesuit College in La Flèche, where he received a modern education, including maths, physics and the recent works of Galileo. After college, he studied at the University of Poitiers to gain a degree in law.
In 1616, he traveled to Paris in order to practice as a lawyer – according to the wishes of his father. But, Descartes was restless in practicing law, he traveled frequently seeking to gain a variety of experiences. In 1618, he joined the Dutch States Army in Breda, where he concentrated on the study of military engineering, which included more study of mathematics.
Visions of a new philosophy :
In November 1619, while Descartes was stationed in Neuburg an der Donau, he stated that he received heavenly visions, while he was shut in his room. He felt a divine spirit had infused his mind with the vision of a new philosophy and also the idea of combining mathematics and philosophy.
Descartes had always sought to be independently minded – never relying on books he read; this vision increased his independence of thought and is a characteristic aspect of his philosophy and mathematical work.
Rene Descartes' house in Amsterdam
In 1620, Descartes left the army and visited several countries before returning to France. He was now motivated to write his own philosophical treatises. His first work was Regulae ad directionem ingenii (1928) Rules for the Direction of the Mind. It set out some of Descartes principles for philosophy and the sciences. In particular, it expressed the importance of relying on reason and the use of mental faculties to methodically work out the truth.
Rene Descrates's death was not a natural one. He was poisoned.
Ebert believes that Jacques Viogué, a missionary working in Stockholm, administered the poison because he feared Descartes's radical theological ideas would derail an expected conversion to Catholicism by the monarch of protestant Sweden.
Descartes had one child out of wedlock.
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