Renee Descartes versus Paul D’Holbach
The Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment have created many well-known figures in different realm. As the spreading and development of the Renaissance idea , people got enlightened and developed different new thoughts about things in the world, just like the totally disparate ideas held by Renee Descartes and Paul D’Holbach in philosophy, religion as well as virtue; and although they were born in different era, different background, the thing in common is that those famous figures who introduced new theories to their realm must be the one who were influenced by Renaissance idea, like Descartes’ new theory in mathematics, physics and astronomy, as well as Holbach’s opinion in politics, which all reflected human creativity. The opinions held by Descartes and Holbach in philosophy are totally different, for that Descartes is a dualist and rationalist, but Holbach is a materialist. Renee Descartes has long been viewed as the founding father of modern rationa...