Robert Desgabets (1610 to 1678) was a Benedictine monk and one of the most original Cartesian thinkers, an early defender and teacher of Descartes at St. Maur in Lorraine. Born in Ancemont, he became a monk in 1636, taught theology at Saint-Evre in Toul and served as procurer general in Paris. Little known today, he helped develop and pass on Cartesian philosophy in Paris and Toulouse, and he is best known for his part in the controversy over the Cartesian account of the Eucharist and for defending Malebranche against the sceptic Simon Foucher. He joined Cartesianism to empiricism in an unusual way that challenges standard views of Descartes, and he also did pioneering work on blood transfusion and mechanics. His main philosophical writings were not published until 1983.
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an early defender and teacher of the Cartesian philosophy at St. Maur in the region of Lorraine, France
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was a French Cartesian philosopher and Benedictine prior
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He was born in Ancemont and in 1636 became a monk in the Benedictine order
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in 1636 became a monk in the Benedictine order
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an early defender and teacher of the Cartesian philosophy at St. Maur in the region of Lorraine, France
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an early defender and teacher of the Cartesian philosophy at St. Maur in the region of Lorraine, France
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He was born in Ancemont and in 1636 became a monk in the Benedictine order
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one of the greatest metaphysicians of our century
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His unusual marriage of Cartesianism and empiricism challenges many standard views of Descartes and the Cartesian philosophy
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an early defender and teacher of the Cartesian philosophy at St. Maur in the region of Lorraine, France
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His unusual marriage of Cartesianism and empiricism challenges many standard views of Descartes and the Cartesian philosophy
Influenced By: Rene Descartes, Life and writings, influences
it was Descartes, not Galileo or Bacon, who offered a new and complete philosophic system
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one of the greatest metaphysicians of our century
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