Rene Decaretes is ridiculed by the philosophical community. What does he think?
1) Was this question asked as a joke? If you are referring to René Descartes, he is obviously not ridiculed by the philosophical community: ” It is in the history of philosophy that there is the greatest agreement about the beginning of the modern period. Rene Descartes is universally acknowledged to be the father of modern philosophy. We may even date modern philosophy from the publication of his Discourse on Method in 1637. Needless to say, there are anticipations of his thought and even of his method in earlier periods and it took time before other philosophers adopted his approach. To his day there are many philosophers who work form Thomistic rather than Cartesian principles. Nevertheless, this book of Descartes was in intention and in reality a break with previous forms of philosophy and the initiation of something quite new. It was post-medieval and has long been identified as “modern.” The philosophy that has been influenced by it is called “modern philosophy.” The history of m
