The flame of independent and creative philosophical reflection which had burned so brightly in ancient Greece was practically extinguished during this time.

He was born on March 31st, 1596, in Touraine, being the third child of a councillor of the parliament of Brittany.

The publication of Descartes' Traité du monde was suspended and was not published until 1677. This was because

Under the general heading of philosophy, Descartes included not only metaphysics but also

According to Descartes, the civilization of any nation is proportionate to the superiority of its philosophy.

Aquinas roundly declared that appeal to ______ is the weakest of all arguments in philosophy.

The primary aim of Descartes was to produce what kind of philosophy

Descartes set himself systematically to doubt all that could possibly be doubted as a preliminary to the establishment of ___

Descartes somehow assumed from the outset that none of the propositions which he doubted would turn out later to be certainly true

René Descartes thinks of himself as the first to discover true philosophical propositions.

Descartes' ideal of philosophy was that of an organically connected system of truths that are