Descartes believed in four very disntinctive ideas. I saw him as kind of a stubborn man but he was honest.
He never believed anything unless he was the one who could prove it on his own. He also learned how to reduce anything he faced to the simplest of parts. He would use those ideas in simplest to hardest as he created a chain of reasoning and based his theories on that.
He said that his learning of science was terrible because of his understanding that many different men created the ideas he was ssuppose to follow.
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I do agree with you that he was stubborn you can tell by his writing, but like you also say I can see how he tells the truth and is honest with himself and others
"He said that his learning of science was terrible because of his understanding that many different men created the ideas he was suppose to follow."
I think this goes back to how he says one mans idea is better then a groups. It is hard to follow many ideas that were put together to make one. I myself have trouble figuring out what science means.
He does seem stubborn, but he also seems real. He didn't believe anything he couldn't prove. When he's solving a problem, he creates a long list of reasoning
Granted, he may have not agreed with the understandings of science, the rational method of deduction in both math and science provided him with ways of analyzing his own problems. By being so concrete and definite within his reasoning he is able to solve any problem, through whatever method necessary to do so.
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