Cartesian - Carthaginian

Japanese: カルテジアン - かるてじあん
Cartesian - Carthaginian

…French philosopher and scientist. His Latin name was Renatus Cartesius, which is why Cartesian scholars and Cartesians are called "Cartesians" in French. He is often called the "father of modern philosophy" for his great influence on subsequent thought, as the thinker who first established the theoretical framework of modern science with his thorough dualism of mind and matter and his mechanistic view of nature, as a liberator through "reason" who taught the critical examination of all irrationality, and as the founder of the philosophy of "cogito (thought, consciousness)."

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Cartesian" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…フランスの哲学者,科学者。ラテン名はレナトゥス・カルテシウスRenatus Cartesiusで,例えばデカルト学派・デカルト主義者をフランス語でカルテジアンcartésienと呼ぶのはこれによる。精神と物質の徹底した二元論,機械論的自然観などによって近代科学の理論的枠組を最初に確立した思想家として,あるいはあらゆる不合理を批判検討することを教えた〈理性〉による解放者として,あるいはまた〈コギト(思惟,意識)〉の哲学の創始者として以後の思想に大きな影響を与え,しばしば〈近代哲学の父〉と呼ばれる。…

※「カルテジアン」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報

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