René Descartes
1596 – 1650 · France · Philosophy, Mathematics
Cogito ergo sum and coordinate geometry.
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Inherited from1
- Al-Ghazali
1058 – 1111 · Philosophy, Theology
The Incoherence's method of universal doubt prefigures the Cartesian meditation.
Passed the work to3
- Baruch Spinoza
1632 – 1677 · Philosophy
Spinoza's Ethics is written in and against Cartesian substance dualism.
- Blaise Pascal
1623 – 1662 · Mathematics, Physics
Pascal's physics and his quarrel with rationalist certainty are both framed by Descartes.
- Immanuel Kant
1724 – 1804 · Philosophy
Kant's critical turn answers the Cartesian question of what the thinking subject can know.
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