Background info.
Early Life
Accomplishments
Impact
Philosophy
100
Descartes was born here
What is La Haye
100
Due to their mother's death the Descartes children went to live with their ________?
Who is Their Grandmother
100
He invented analytic ________?
What is geometry
100
He was a Philosopher, Mathematician, and ___________.
What is a scientist
100
Considered "The Father of Modern __________."
What is Philosophy.
200
His brother was named ______.
What is Pierre
200
At what age was Descartes sent to Jesuit College?
What is 11
200
He was the first philosopher to describe the physical universe in terms of ________ and _________.
What is Matter and Motion.
200
His theories of __________ and the relations between mind and matter influenced many other philosophers.
What is knowledge.
200
"I think- therefore I ___"
What is am
300
In what year did Descartes leave for La Flèche?
What is 1607.
300
What year did he leave Jesuit College?
What is 1614
300
He broke away from "old philosophy" which is referred to as?
What is Aristotelianism?
300
He created a new system of what?
What is thought
300
He denied that all knowledge comes from ____________.
What is Sensation.
400
On what date was he born?
What is March 31, 1596
400
Where is Jesuit College?
What is La Flèche
400
His three major works were Discourse on Method, Meditations on first Philosophy, and ______________.
What is Principles on Philosophy.
400
His new thought system was supposed to ______ all knowledge.
What is unify.
400
He rejected ___________ _________ as explanatory principles in physics.
What are Substantial Forms?
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