The revolutionary approach this thinker would bring to philosophy was already present in his first work, the "Rules for the Direction of the Understanding".
The revolutionary approach this thinker would bring to philosophy was already present in his first work, the "Rules for the Direction of the Understanding". His work "Dioptric, Meteors, and Geometry" discussed the scientific views vital to his plan to reconstruct the whole of philosophy using deduction and his technique of "methodical doubt". First conceiving his mission in a famous "stove-heated room" in the winter of 1619, he put his plan into effect in the "Principles", the "Meditations on First Philosophy", and the "Discourse on Method". FTP, who was this French thinker best-known for his statement "Cogito, ergo sum"?
The revolutionary approach this thinker would bring to philosophy was already present in his first work, the "Rules for the Direction of the Understanding".
Rene Descartes