Rene Descartes--People in Osho's Talks

French philosopher, scientist, writer, mathematician...

mother dies of TB when Descartes is 1 year
father is a high court judge

called the "father of modern philosophy", and the
"father of modern mathematics".

But Patanjali says that if you know there is no need for
inference, but if you don’t know then too it will be
helpful to infer. For example, Descartes, one of the
greatest thinkers of the West, started his philosophical
quest through doubt. He took the standpoint from the
very beginning that he will not believe in anything
which is not indubitable. That which could be doubted,
he would doubt. And he would try to find out a point
which could not be doubted, and only on that point
would he create the whole edifice of his thinking. A
beautiful quest – honest, arduous, dangerous...

--Osho
The Path of Yoga, ch. 5

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