René Descartes and Rationalism (2)

Introduction René Descartes was born and educated in France, but he lived in the Netherlands for twenty years. He was a brilliant mathematician and philosopher, generally considered to be the father of modern philosophy. His ideas were so novel that he was cordially hated by his own church -- particularly by the Jesuits, who had trained him in his early years, but also by the Calvinists in the Netherlands, who rightly, saw in his thinking a serious threat to the Reformed faith. Forced to flee...