The Philosophy of Descartes

Father Bonaventure: Is Descartes doing something different insofar as he's looking at philosophy first, like Aristotle, reacting to them with another eye, one eye also on experience? And I ask because what we see here is the convergence of two principles that have come together, namely a rejection of Aristotle through a misunderstanding, and then a meditation to his own reflection on his experience. So in other words, do you sense that Descartes has made philosophy, moving it up almost to a second order discourse where now the actual positions of philosophers exercise their regnative direction?, Father Cuddy asks.