Rene Descartes. Founder of rationalism in philosophy. All sciences are interconnected
René Descartes is the founder of rationalism as a special direction in the philosophy of the New Age, one of the greatest mathematicians and physicists of his era. He was born in 1596 in the city of La Haye (province of Touraine) into a noble family. He studied at the Jesuit college of La Flèche, then at the University of Poitiers. Scholastic teaching did not satisfy the young Descartes: the knowledge he received seemed insufficient to him, and in large part, questionable. “That is why, as soon as age allowed me to get out of submission to my teachers, I completely abandoned book studies and decided to seek only that science that I could find in myself or in the great book of the world” (1.1, 255). He goes to Holland and enters military service there.