René Descartes
Fire the "René Descartes" event in Europa Universalis IV with the console command event flavor_fra.5003.
René Descartes
Fire this event with the event command and the event ID flavor_fra.5003.
What happens
French mathematician, scientist and philosopher René Descartes has been called the father of modern philosophy because he was one of the first to oppose scholastic Aristotelianism. He began by methodically doubting knowledge based on authority the senses and reason then found certainty in the intuition that when he is thinking he exists - this he expressed in the famous statement 'I think therefore I am.' Descartes developed a dualistic system in which he distinguished radically between mind the essence of which is thinking and matter the essence of which is extension in three dimensions.
Player choices
When this event fires, René Descartes presents these options:
- Excellent