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When it comes to Metaphysics, Rene Descartes paved the way for many

philosophers. Metaphysics is the main branch of philosophy because the key questions,

“why do I know?” and “what is self?” cannot be fully answered until looked at from a

social and political point of view. In the field of Epistemology, Descartes was considered

a rationalist who believed in a priori knowledge. These two fields are where Descartes

had the most influence on his peers and philosophers of today.

Under metaphysics, Descartes studied the concept of reality and its effect on

people’s lives. Descartes was a dualist whose view was that the world consists of two

different components. In his conception, the soul, which to him was an entity separate

from the body and living in the pituitary gland, might or might not be aware of the body,

but when awareness did occur, there was a sensation of the body affecting the mind.

Descartes called this Cartesian......

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