Five Card Story: Rene Descartes

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1. Rene Descartes was born on March 31, 1596 in France, Europe.
2. Rene Descartes was one year old, his mother died. His father remarried in Rennes, leaving him to be reared by his maternal grandmother in La Haye and subsequently by his great-uncle in Châtellerault.
3. Rene Descartes studies in rhetoric and logic, as well as the mathematical arts, which encompassed music and astronomy, as well as metaphysics, natural philosophy, and ethics, prepared him well for a career as a philosopher. So did spending the following four years at the University of Poitiers getting a bachelor’s in law.
4. Rene Descartes never married, although he had a kid with Helena Jans van der Strom in 1635. Francine, the kid, died of scarlet fever when she was five years old.
5. Rene Descartes, a French philosopher, did not think animals have souls. To put his idea to the test, he fastened his wife's dog to a board and cut it open while it was still alive.

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