Socrates was born 469 BC. He bounced between two branches of philosophy, ethics and epistemology. Ethics is the philosophy that tries to understand the nature of morality basically, good and evil. Descartes was born in 1596. He was a mathematician and philosopher. Socrates and Descartes were two great minds in very different periods in our history. The differences do not only exist in time, but …show more content…
Unlike Socrates, whose philosophy of ethics attempts to understand how man interacts with others, a person, place or thing.
In contrast, there is a branch of philosophy that both Socrates and Descartes share and that epistemology search of the origin, nature and the realization of knowledge. Both came to the same conclusion about the origin of knowledge, which is the source of knowledge and all things that come forth of knowledge resides in God. Descartes attributed all existence, knowledge and everything else as God's creation. Both Descartes and Socrates are seekers equally, but ultimately they claim not to knowledge anything, but owing their progress and achievements to the grace of …show more content…
Descartes declined to accept the authority of previous philosophers, and he refused to trust their own senses. With a fixed frequency point of view, aside from the one of its predecessors; in the opening section of the passions of the soul, a treatise on the modern version of what is now commonly referred emotions, Descartes goes so far as to say that going to write about this topic, "as if no one had written about these matters before. He used the methodical doubt to find the truth of the existence of the being. First Descartes rejects any questionable knowledge, which are any subjective knowledge or things that are not always true. He was able to conclude that all knowledge can be questioned. There is one certain and evident truth, which is that which survives all doubts, meaning some knowledge which is doubted and still cannot contradict, is an objective and accurate truth. Thus, stating "I think therefore I am" he proposes that the only truth that cannot be doubt is the fact that we exist. Because if we are able to put knowledge into question, means we can think, and if we think means that we