Document Type : Research Paper
Author
Assistant Professor of Philosophy Department,, University of Tabriz
Abstract
Descartes is known as the Father of Modern philosophy; but it must be considered that why this title is justified for Descartes. He provides us in his philosophy with a new, innovative pictures of man, God, and the world that are differernt from those we find in traditional philosophies. The Cartesian man is very different from the aristotelean one; In Cartesian system, the human soul is reduced into human mind, and as a result of this, the rationality changed into speaking and life became meaningless, also. The cartesian world differs from Aristotelean one in that in the former we have Ten Categories while in the latter there is no categoru but one, the Quantity. The cartesian God is not the same with God we find in metaphica specialis, so that the former is but supremely perfec Being while the latter, first of all, is the Creator.
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