The author considers the features and laws of transformation poorly studied in Soviet literature in the way of thinking that occurred in the innovative philosophy of the 17th century. among thinkers such as Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz and others. The role of democratic social movements in the era of early bourgeois revolutions and the specific function of the ideology of the people's Reformation in the preparation of the philosophical consciousness of modern times, primarily in the formation of the Cartesian cognitive method, can be traced.