In Discourse on Method and Related Writings author René Descartes explains how he developed his unique and, especially for his time, unconventional reasoning in an autobiographical style. The story of his intellectual development is an unconventional one, and he describes how his revolutionary method had transformed him into the distinguished and ever prevalent philosopher that we know him to be today.
It is apparent that Descartes was the black sheep of his class, using other methods and standards for education in his time, in the early seventeenth century, when education was something that had been the same for practically over a century. Because of his unique education, which he acquired through traveling the world, he also had a unique
It is apparent that Descartes was the black sheep of his class, using other methods and standards for education in his time, in the early seventeenth century, when education was something that had been the same for practically over a century. Because of his unique education, which he acquired through traveling the world, he also had a unique