Rene Descartes, French Philosopher

Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650) was a French mathematician, philosopher and scientist. He is considered the father of modern Western philosophy, propounding a rationalist metaphysics as a rejection of the scholastic tradition. His best known philosophical statement, cogito, ergo sum ('I think, therefore I am'), is Descartes expression of belief in the intuition of ones own reality, a concept that laid the foundation for 17th century rationalism. Engraving from Vies des Savants Illustres (1876)

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