1. Descartes, Father of Modern Ph
... would cease to exist entirely. After notable minds of the Ancient World such as Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, by modernist standards, original thinking ceased for many centuries. Throughout the following periods, later known as the middle Ages, the world was dominated by dogma of the Catholic Church. Scholasticism allied with severs punishment for heresy-prevented rationalization outside of religion. Descartes was the first to bring philosophy to its "renaissance." He ... requested the reality of everything, including God. Though he was a devout Catholic, and later proved the existenc...
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