Cartesian Evolvement

Because his 'I think, therefore I am' notion initiated a trend in which concrete thinking, and no longer an abstract Universal such as God or a Platonic Form, is the measure of Philosophizing, Descartes is often considered the 'Father of Modern Philosophy'. Given that traceable to that Principle are the more general modern trends of Secularism, Humanism, and Subjectivism, he could also be considered the 'Father of Modern Civilization', which would not be honorific coming from those who regard those trends as decadent. But any characterization, even Heidegger's, of Descartes as 'Subjectivistic' is hasty if it ignores his other profound contribution to modern civilization--the 'Cartesian Plane'. This Descartes initially intended to illustrate the Arithmetization of Geometry, which went on to facilitate the quantification of Physics that is the basis of all modern Science, and which is, more commonly, the forerunner of every graph. Not only would admirers and critics alike be hard-pressed to classify this innovation of his as 'Subjectivistic', this aspect of Cartesiansim suggests an alternative interpretation of his theory of Selfhood. The fact that the significance to him of the 'I think' is its indubitability shows that its importance lies not in its Subjectivism, but in its Objectivity, i. e. no matter how hard he tries, and regardless of what he wishes, he cannot doubt the existence of 'I think'. Regardless of what trends followed Descartes, the result of his analysis is more accurately a self-Objectivization, which in Evolvementalism, is the beginning of Individuality.