Descarte’s Rationalism VS Hume’s Empiricism
...me philosophical traits. A notable example is that of their skepticism 3. Conclusion: A summary of the most important points that both philosophers agreed and disagreed about , and how they affected other philosophers. René Descartes is a French catholic born in La Haye Fr; on March 31, 1596 .He was known as the father of modern philosophy. He was a significant mathematician, scientist, philosopher, and one of the first to oppose scholastic Aristotelianism. He was the inventor of an indispensable tool of modern physics and analytic geometry. He began by methodically doubting knowledge based on authority, the senses, and reason, then found certainty in the intuition that, when he is thinking, he exists; this he expressed in the famous statement "I think, therefore I am." He developed a dualistic system in which he distinguished radically between mind (the essence of which is thinking) and matter (the essence of which is extension in three dimensions). Descartes was a rationalist that developed his view in two ways. First, he argue that there are cases where the content of our concepts or knowledge outstrips the information that sense experience can provide. Second, he constructs accounts of how reason in some form or other provides that additional information about the world. His mediations reflected his rationalism which contradicted a very famous philosopher’s ideas in the modern philosophy named David Hume . Although hume was ...