When1: 1620
When2: 1700
Who: Cartesian
What: philosophic school
Where: Europe
Detail: Descartes founded school that included Joachim Jung, Erhard Weigel, Jansenists, Occasionalists, Mystics, Spinoza, and Leibniz. Matter {res extensa} behaves using quantitative rules about sizes, shapes, and motions. Matter keeps moving and does not tend to stop, as Aristotle had claimed. Matter is inert and has no forces. God set matter in motion and causes all actions. Mind is separate and opposite from matter, is unity, and is not in space or time. God correlates mind and body.
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