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One of the brightest characters in philosophy XVII century was Rene Descartes. He was a great French philosopher and mathematic, a developer of classical rationalism. His main work is «Principles of Philosophy». Descartes accepted the existence of two substances: matter with a length attribute and spirit with a mentality attribute. According to Descartes, matter is eternal Universe that consists of corpuscles that can divide endlessly. Material things in addition to length can characterize movement as well. Descartes criticized scholasticism and theology and he did it from the rational point of view. Descartes asserted the idea of almightiness and impeccability ...