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René Descartes (1596–1650) is widely regarded as the "Father of Modern Philosophy" due to his decisive break with the Scholastic-Aristotelian tradition and his development of a new philosophical and scientific frame. His methodological skepticism based on radical doubt aimed to establish a secure foundation for knowledge and culminated in the famous phrase "Cogito, ergo sum" ("I think, therefore I am"). This approach not only shaped the trajectory of modern epistemology but also laid the foundat

Seventeenth-century Europe is regarded as one of the turning points in the history of thought. The authority-based understanding of knowledge that had dominated the Middle Ages began to give way to an emphasis on the individual’s reason and capacity for questioning. Experience, reason, and individual thought now became central to philosophy. The upheavals introduced by Galileo and Kepler in the understanding of nature did not remain confined to the scientific realm; they also determined the dire