Socrates Meets Descartes: The Father of Philosophy Analyzes the Father of Modern Philosophy’s Discourse on Method (Biblia.com)

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According to Kreeft, Socrates and Descartes are perhaps the two most important philosophers who have ever lived, because they are the two who made the most difference to all philosophers after them. These two fathers of philosophy stand at the beginning of the two basic philosophical options: the classical and the modern. Through an imagined dialogue between Socrates and Descartes, Kreeft focuses...

nature to the will of man and satisfying human desires—is that the reason the conquest of nature makes for happiness? DESCARTES: That seems to be the connection. SOCRATES: And happiness is the greatest good? DESCARTES: Yes. Everyone seeks everything else as a means to the goal of happiness, while no one seeks happiness as a means to any other goal. SOCRATES: We ancients thought that happiness, or the greatest good, consisted in conforming the human soul to objective reality—for instance, by the knowledge

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