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The article begins a series of final author’s publications designed to evaluate Descartes’ contribution to the formation and development of the philosophy of the Modern Era. The subject of concern directly in this article is the totality of the components of Descartes’ worldview, scientific and philosophical positions in its integrity and structural specifics. Ten such components are identified, and six of them are worthy of special mention considering their subsequent primary development in the philosophy of the Modern Era. These are materialistic, objective-idealistic, subjective-idealistic, skeptical and irrationalistic components, as well as one more, which there is no reason to describe as directly and consistently dialectical, but which is nevertheless represented in Descartes by his concrete steps to form one that. Focusing here not only on these six components, but on their totality also makes sense. To be exact, this clearly shows that in Descartes, they form a unity in which at least the first six both exclude and condition each other. Whereas, in subsequent modern European philosophers each of this components is present primarily as a separate line, declared as perhaps the only acceptable and worthy of efforts to develop it. So, focusing on the total picture of Descartes’ views makes clear the structural integrity of the entire modern European philosophy in all the diversity of its main components.