Roughly speaking, Cartesianism mainly includes the following two viewpoints: first, it establishes the independent status of subject and the dichotomy between subject and object; Secondly, it gives the hypothesis of "identity of subjects", that is, "all subjects have the same mental framework", so subjects can "reach" each other. It can be said that we are still thinking, living and walking in the Cartesian coordinate system. Just as Newtonian mechanics is still the most basic knowledge for most people to know the world, make machines and understand motion, Cartesian coordinate system has established a basic framework for us to reason, demonstrate, calculate, solve, even think and judge, and has become a cognitive paradigm of the times. This paradigm has a very simple equation, that is, "science = rational progress".

Influence on university education:

Rationalization of social science and political science in universities: both research methods and curriculum system adopt the "scientific" method of rationalism.

The decline of humanities: the decline of poetry,