The Rationalists
Descartes: Discourse on Method & Meditations; Spinoza: Ethics; Leibniz: Monadology & Discourse on Metaphysics
- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
31 March 1999
Summary
Founded in the mid-17th century, Rationalism wasphilosophy’s first step into the modern era. Thisvolume contains the essential statements ofRationalism’s three greatest figures- Descartes, whobegan it; Spinoza, who epitomized it; and Leibniz,who gave it its last serious expression.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780385095402 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0385095406 |
| Author: | Rene Descartes, Benedict de Spinoza, Gottfried Wilhelm Vo Leibniz |
| Publisher: | Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc |
| Imprint: | Anchor Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 31 March 1999 |
| Weight: | 386g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 131mm x 27mm |
About The Author
Rene Descartes
Rene Descartes (1596-1650), the French philosopher and mathematician, is generally regarded as the founder of modern philosophy.Benedict de Spinoza (1632-1677) was born in Amsterdam, where his orthodox Jewish family had fled from persecution in Portugal. Expelled from the synagogue for his heterodox philosophy, he identified God with nature and denied the possibility of an act of creation.Gottfried Wilhelm Von Leibniz(1646 -1716) German philosopher, mathematician, and political adviser, important both as a metaphysician and as a logician and distinguished also for his independent invention of the differential andintegralcalculus.
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