PO235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Secular Institute, Misogyny
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Life as a solitary thinker - context (don"t start your essay with descartes was born is __ Example on paper: many people thought that machiavelli was a misogynist 50 pe people said this (thesis and anti thesis). He was the very beginning of that rejection of the medievalism. First of a very modern th analytical geometry. Born in 1596 at la haye near tours, france. (not born in paris, which is odd because to born in paris). 1605-15 jesuit college od la fleche in anjou. He is probably an outsider because he is no is still upper class. Catholic church did not want to allow any other modern thoughts to be spoken to. 1619 has main scientific inspiration in wintery germany solitary wintery moment of 1. Modern enlightenment begins when he was in solitary in germany. 1628-49 lived in holland; frequent changes of address every other month because he was publishing his work.
