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13480832 No.13480832 [Reply] [Original]

Was he the greatest genius of modern times?

>> No.13480968

>>13480832
nah

>> No.13480989

>>13480968
Wrong.

>> No.13481160

>>13480832
yikes what an incel

>> No.13481177

>>13480832
Galileo was.

>> No.13481187

>>13480832
>assuming what he set out to prove

>> No.13481315

>>13481177
Fun fact, at the time, Descartes was cited more than Galileo in scientific texts.

>> No.13481418

>ayo animals dont even feel pain that's why it's ok for me to disembowel this cat while it's still alive lol check this out

>> No.13481423

>>13480832
>1600s
>400 hundred years ago
>modern
???

>> No.13481435

>>13481315
Yeah, but Descartes was too obsessed by metaphysics and geometry to do much. He was a great mathematician but he wasted too much of his time and he never seemed to totally break free of the scholastic philosophy which he seemed to hate. Otherwise, I doubt he would have proposed something like the Ether and vortexes just to make his worldview work. Galileo was the one who legitimately rejected the entire worldview of the time and began modern science.

>> No.13481441

>>13481423
He lies at the start of the modern era yes. Philosophers often consider that philosophical modernity starts either at Descartes or at Kant.

>> No.13481446

>>13481418
>Holy shit bro, look, it's shrieking like SHIT bro...but it's okay, because they don't actually feel pain bro