René Descartes (1596–1650)
Le bon sens est la chose du monde la mieux partagée : car chacun pense en être si bien pourvu, que ceux même qui sont les plus difficiles à contenter en toute autre chose, n'ont point coutume d'en désirer plus qu'ils en ont.
— Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess.
René Descartes was a French philosopher, scientist, logician, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science during the Renaissance era. Mathematics was paramount to his method of inquiry, and he connected the previously separate fields of geometry and algebra into analytic geometry.
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René Descartes
René Descartes (/deɪˈkɑːrt/ day-KART, also /ˈdeɪkɑːrt/ DAY-kart;[2][3] French: [ʁəne dekaʁt] ⓘ; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) was a French polymath,[4][5] active across philosophy, including metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and the philosophy of science;…
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