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 * Montesquieu, The Spirit of Laws**



By Shanice Allen

Montesquieu's goal of making the Spirit of Laws was to explain human laws and social intuitions. In his view, he thought that the key to understanding the laws an social systems is to recognize that they have to be adapted to in a variety of different factors. That it cannot be understood unless one considers them in that way. That when you consider legal and social systems in relation, that He believed that we will find many laws and intuitions that we thought were incomprehensible, to become quite comprehensible.He believed that the law of many countries can be made more liberal and humane. Therefore religious persecution and slavery can be abolished and commerce can be encouraged. He believed that you have to look at the world in different varieties. If you do then you will be able to understand it in a more comprehensible way. 


 * René Descartes

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By Shanice Allen

René Descartes can also be known as the "Father of Modern Philosophy". Descartes thought that the Scholastics' method was prone to doubt given their reliance on sensation as the source for all knowledge. He also wanted to replace their final casual model of scientific explanation with the more modern mechanistic model. His strategy was to consider false any belief that falls prey to even the slightest doubt. He considered it to be a unprejudiced search for the truth. He sets out to find something that lies beyond all doubt. Descartes proceeded to rebuild his system on a new certain foundation to demonstrate God's existence and that God cannot be a deceiver. His beliefs included the existence of a world of mind and bodies external to the mind, distinction of the immaterial mind from the body, and his model of physics. 