Rene Descartes: intelligent mathematician, original metaphysician, and an important scientific analyst. He contributed a lot of knowledge to the world of math and science; however, he left the world with a far more important vision that this is a world of matter obtaining a few fundamental properties and interacting according to some universal laws. Descartes philosophical development was peculiar to say the least because his arguments did not follow a distinct pattern of change. In other words, it was not common for a philosopher’s arguments to remain the same throughout his whole life. According to Gary Hatfield, “Readers of the philosophical works of Immanuel Kant are aware of the basic distinction between his critical and precritical periods.
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At the time he came to this conclusion he was in Germany and he noticed the radiant beauty of the buildings. He began to question that if a city destroyed the houses only to rebuild them and rebuild the streets around them in a nicer way wouldn’t be reasonable. What is reasonable is that when an individual household rebuilds their house foundation because it was breaking down anyways. The house wouldn’t be left standing on the damaged foundation and this is when he realizes that without the exposure to see what greater things are out there in the world, how could live solely on a limited view of the world. He decided to let go of all his former opinions and re-build them according to standards of his own reasons. He states, “Now, just as a state is much better governed when it has only a few laws that are strictly obeyed than when it has a great many laws that can provide an excuse for vices, so I thought that in place of the large number of rules that make up logic I would find the following four to be sufficient, provided that I made and kept to a strong resolution always to obey them” (Bennett 8). The first rule states, never accept anything as …show more content…
He explains that the laws of nature would be the same in any world that God has perfected them to be. These laws would cause the matter to separate into what we know of as planets, stars, and the light. Overall the point Descartes makes is the laws of nature that God has made could have naturally developed our world’s oceans, lands, and plants without God’s interference. Part 5 is mainly about how his methods in the previous part helped him solve metaphysical
At the time he came to this conclusion he was in Germany and he noticed the radiant beauty of the buildings. He began to question that if a city destroyed the houses only to rebuild them and rebuild the streets around them in a nicer way wouldn’t be reasonable. What is reasonable is that when an individual household rebuilds their house foundation because it was breaking down anyways. The house wouldn’t be left standing on the damaged foundation and this is when he realizes that without the exposure to see what greater things are out there in the world, how could live solely on a limited view of the world. He decided to let go of all his former opinions and re-build them according to standards of his own reasons. He states, “Now, just as a state is much better governed when it has only a few laws that are strictly obeyed than when it has a great many laws that can provide an excuse for vices, so I thought that in place of the large number of rules that make up logic I would find the following four to be sufficient, provided that I made and kept to a strong resolution always to obey them” (Bennett 8). The first rule states, never accept anything as …show more content…
He explains that the laws of nature would be the same in any world that God has perfected them to be. These laws would cause the matter to separate into what we know of as planets, stars, and the light. Overall the point Descartes makes is the laws of nature that God has made could have naturally developed our world’s oceans, lands, and plants without God’s interference. Part 5 is mainly about how his methods in the previous part helped him solve metaphysical