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June 15, 2013 by Max Distro LLC

René Descartes and The Modern World

Portrait of René Descartes after Franz Halls 1650-1700. Louvre, Paris

Portrait of René Descartes after Franz Halls 1650-1700. Louvre, Paris

Descartes is the father of modern philosophy, abstract, mathematical and scientific. In mathematics he is the father of algebraic geometry and laid the groundwork for the calculus of Newton and Leibnitz. In general Descartes rejected empirical knowledge for experimental confirmation, the throwing out several millennia of Aristotelian “science”. He even rejected the existence of his own body and the sensations provided by it. All knowledge must be proven and it set the stage for the enlightenment and rationalism. He developed an early form of the law of conservation of mechanical momentum. “Thus, God imparted various motions to the parts of matter when he first created them, and he now conserves all this matter in the same way, and by the same process by which he originally created it; and it follows from what we have said that this fact alone makes it most reasonable to think that God likewise always conserves the same quantity of motion in matter.” I hear echos of the conservation of mass espoused by Levoisier, the father of modern chemistry, Leibniz conservation of energy, Joule's mechanical equilalence of heat and even Einstein's conservation of matter and energy.

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Filed Under: France, Myth, Philosophy and Religion, Paris Tagged With: Age of Enlightenment, Age of Reason, Albert Einstein, Baruch Spinoza, Cartesian Doubt, Cogito Ergo Sum, Denis Diderot, Descartes, Divine Concursus, I Think Therefore I Am, Philosophe en Contemplation, Philosophe en Méditation, Philosopher, Philosopher in Meditation, René Descartes, Scientific Revolution

June 13, 2013 by Max Distro LLC

Philosopher in Meditation by Rembrandt van Rijn. Louvre, Paris

Philosopher in Meditation by Rembrandt 1632, Louvre, Paris

Philosopher in Meditation by Rembrandt 1632, Louvre, Paris

We were at the Louvre recently with Lisa's sister to show her some of my favorite Flemish painters and we stopped at the area devoted to Rembrandt. We happened to meet a nice French gentleman, Gaston, who was kind enough to share his favorite painting shown above, Philosophe en Méditation from 1632. While my French and his English was not perfect, we had a lovely conversation about the painting and I was inspired to write a post.

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Filed Under: Painting, Paris, The Louvre Tagged With: Amsterdam, Book of Tobit, Constantijn Huygens, Empty Stairwell, Figura Serpentinata, Philosophe en Contemplation, Philosophe en Méditation, Philosopher in Meditation, Rembrandt, René Descartes, Salomon Koninck, The Louvre, The Philosophers, Tobias, Tobit

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