However, it’s likely that Descartes would also have studied Plato and Stoicism too. ‘Philosophy’ education in the early 1600s meant a particular focus on the work of Aristotle. The young Descartes attended a Jesuit college and received a typical middle-class education: Latin and Ancient Greece, Classical poetry, philosophy and mathematics. The town of La Haye has since been renamed Descartes after its most famous resident. His mother Jeanne died when he was a teenager, meaning that Descartes spent a lot of time at home with his grandmother (also named Jeanne) and his two siblings (a brother Pierre and a sister also named Jeanne). His father Joachim was a lawyer and often spent time away from home at the Parliament of Brittany in Rennes. René Descartes: Early life and Education Painting of Descartes by Jan Baptist Weenix, circa 1647-1649, via Wikimedia Commons.ĭescartes was born on March 31st, 1596, in La Haye, France.
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