{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Rene Descartes","description":"Imagine growing up in a world where every authority—teachers, priests, even the stars overhead—was suddenly up for debate. What would you believe if nearly everything you’d been taught could be challenged? For René Descartes, this was not a hypothetical.\r\n\r\nEurope in the late fifteen hundreds was a continent unsettled. Old certainties had begun to crack. Universities still taught Aristotle, and churches claimed final authority, but their grip was loosening. New mathematics, new astronomy, and the smoldering aftermath of the Reformation were reshaping what people thought they could know. It was an era when inherited answers weren’t enough. The real question was: how could anyone be certain of anything at all?\r\n\r\nAurelius and Malik take on this case in full — 5 chapters, 34 minutes, one complete story.\r\n\r\nLearn more at: https://thephilosophyarchive.com/philosophy/rene-descartes","author_name":"The Archive Network"}