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• 2 Descartes

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• What is a rationalist?

  Reliance on reason as the best guide for belief and action.

• What was the goal of the Directions of the Mind?

  Descartes: I should bring to light the true reaches of our souls opening up to each of us means whereby we confined within ourselves without any help from anyone else all the knowledge that we may need for the conduct of life.

• How did Decartes thought that the goal of the Directions of Mind could be reached?

  Descartes had an immense faith in what introspection guided by definition, sound argument and clarity of thought could achieve.

• Why did Descartes want to convince us with his vision?

  He believed that much of what was wrong with the world was causes by misusing our minds, by confusing, bad definition and by unconscious illogicality.

• What was the life goal of Descartes?

  Make our minds better for the task of thinking.

• What vision did Decartes found?

  An independent, rationally founded vision of existence.

• How can we solve key questions, by Descartes?

  To solve key questions take on proposed that we alway have to divide large problems into small understandable sections by way of incisive questions. This what he called his method doubts.

• Why was Descartes a hero of the leaders of the French revolution?

  He believed in grouping all of our ideas in individual experience and reason, rather than authority and tradition.

• If knowledge can't be derived from our senses (like study letters), what did Descartes do than?

  He took no knowledge, other than that which could be found in his self or else in the great book of the world. There he spent his youth traveling visiting courts and armies mixing people of diverse temperaments and ranks, gathering various experiences. Also testing hisself in situations which afforded him. And at all times reflecting personally upon whatever came his way so as to drive some profit it.

• At what climax did the sotyr of Descarted end?

  When he arrives at the famous phrase: cognate ergo sum: I think therefore I am.