René Descartes was said to have started the new era of modern philosophy. He developed a method of rejecting all information and ideas that may be uncertain or doubtful. Then based on a complete, unquestionable principle, he would rebuild a new system of truth. He only allowed such assumptions that seemed indubitable. His theory of knowledge refused all authorities including the Bible, thus religion itself was also discarded, since the entire topic was doubtful.
Francis Bacon proceeded with his method of inductive reasoning, the process of precise facts leading to a general conclusion. As a philosopher, he preferred finding a method of developing philosophy than actually planning philosophy. He based everything only on experiment and observation, as he believed that one should require a completely planned process for investigating. He also states the significance of making one’s mind completely free of biases that distort the truth.
René Descartes and Francis Bacon rejected the methods and results of the previous authorities and developed their own. Although they each had the exact opposite methods, Descartes’ rationalism and Bacon’s empiricism, that went against each other, they both derived their methods from complete truth, and required a new standard of precision. Both played a crucial part in the scientific revolution and separated religion from truth, as religion is uncertainty itself.
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