id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4350 Cartesianism - Wikipedia .html text/html 1917 349 61 The Cartesian Method is the philosophical and scientific system of René Descartes and its subsequent development by other seventeenth century thinkers, most notably François Poullain de la Barre, Nicolas Malebranche and Baruch Spinoza.[1] Descartes is often regarded as the first thinker to emphasize the use of reason to develop the natural sciences.[2] For him, the philosophy was a thinking system that embodied all knowledge, and expressed it in this way:[3] Aristotle and St. Augustine's work influenced Descartes's cogito argument.[4][failed verification] Additionally, there is similarity between Descartes's work and that of the Scottish philosopher, George Campbell's 1776 publication, titled Philosophy of Rhetoric. In the Netherlands, where Descartes had lived for a long time, Cartesianism was a doctrine popular mainly among university professors and lecturers. Notable Cartesians[edit] (ed.), "Epistemology", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2018 ed.), Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, archived from the original on 22 September 2019, retrieved 17 April 2019 "Cartesianism | philosophy". ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4350.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4350.txt