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[79] [80] As evidence, Ebert suggests that Catherine Descartes, the niece of René Descartes, made a veiled reference to the act of poisoning when her uncle was administered "communion" two days before his death, in her Report on the Death of M. Descartes, the Philosopher (1693). [81] His last words were reported to have been:
Catherine Descartes (1637–1706) was a French poet and philosopher, and the niece of French philosopher René Descartes. [1] A prominent figure in the French salon movement, her best known works included "Shade of Descartes" ("L'Ombre de Descartes") and Report on the Death of M. Descartes, the Philosopher.
Regulae ad directionem ingenii, or Rules for the Direction of the Mind is an unfinished treatise regarding the proper method for scientific and philosophical thinking by René Descartes. Descartes started writing the work in 1628, and it was eventually published in 1701 after Descartes' death. [1]
On 15 January Descartes wrote he had seen Christina only four or five times. [52] On 1 February 1650, Descartes caught a cold. He died ten days later, early in the morning of 11 February 1650, and according to Chanut, the cause of his death was pneumonia .
1943 – Simone Weil starved herself to death (the technical cause of death was tuberculosis, possibly aggravated by malnutrition [11]) 1944 – Jean Cavaillès was shot by the Gestapo. 1944 – Marc Bloch was shot by the Gestapo for his work in the French Resistance. 1944 – Giovanni Gentile was murdered by communist partisans.
In the first part of his work, Descartes ponders the relationship between the thinking substance and the body. For Descartes, the only link between these two substances is the pineal gland (art. 31), the place where the soul is attached to the body. The passions that Descartes studies are in reality the actions of the body on the soul (art. 25).
The fifth season of Netflix’s “The Crown,” will follow the later life of Princess Margaret as well her death. ... Last season of “The Crown” left viewers with the impression of an ill-at ...
Descartes' Le Monde, 1664 The World, also called Treatise on the Light (French title: Traité du monde et de la lumière), is a book by René Descartes (1596–1650). Written between 1629 and 1633, it contains a nearly complete version of his philosophy, from method, to metaphysics, to physics and biology.