Francis Bacon And John Bacon's Contribution To The Intellectual Revolution
Descartes was a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. His most famous contributions to the Intellectual Revolution was his philosophical work and the introduction of Cartesian geometry. In his work, Discourse of Method, Descarte tackles the problem of skepticism, which was helpful to the study of philosophy and the development of the natural sciences. He starts his line of reasoning by doubting everything in order to assess the world from a clear perspective. Bacon also tackles this problem in his work by saying that the idols of the tribe, the cave, the marketplace, and the theater, all prevent us from observing nature with a clear mind ( Aughterson 394). Descartes is able to solve this problem by saying “never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such”(Aughterson 400). This was influential for the Intellectual revolution going on because it forced people to rid themselves of all the past traditions in order to look at nature from a different perspective. By doing this, human progress in the sciences, philosophy, religion, and politics would be able to be