René Descartes is one of the most influential masters in philosophy and the scientific community in Europe at 17th-century. Descartes was born in France Indre - Loirec at March 31, 1596. He came from a noble family. His mother died early, he was sickly. Descartes living with grandmother. His father offered him money to help him has a good education. In 1618, Descartes joined the army in the Netherlands.1619 winter, Descartes made three strange dream.The first dream, he saw himself stumble in the whirlwind, but others do not influence by the wind. In the second dream, he found the key to open a natural treasure. In the third dream there are few books, including an encyclopedia. There is also a stranger give him a poem that beginning with a whether or not. Descartes believed encyclopedia represented the unity of numerous of scientific. Poems expresses the truth and fallacy. Descartes believes these dreams is a revelation that God would like him to open the road towards a real knowledge. After this winter, Descartes’s philosophical thought has been basically formed. Descartes believes there are two different entities in the universe, which are Thoughts and the external world, or mind and material. The main body of mind and material comes from God, but God is self- existent. He believed that only human have soul, human is a dualism existence, human will be thinking, and will occupy space. The animal belongs to the material world. Descartes emphasized the starting point that idea can not be suspected, and it had a significant impact for future European Philosophy. “Cogito ergo sum” has a dispute that existence of God and animal monism.
Dualism answer the question that relationship between mind and body. Dualism shows there are two separate primitive philosophical which are spiritual and material in the advocate world. Descartes believed the spirit and substance are two absolutely different entities. spirit and substance are completely independent and one can not...