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The Rationalists
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Published on Apr 13, 2011 | 480 Pages
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Published on Apr 13, 2011 | 480 Pages
Founded in the mid-17th century, Rationalism was philosophy’s first step into the modern era. This volume contains the essential statements of Rationalism’s three greatest figures: Descartes, who began it; Spinoza, who epitomized it; and Leibniz, who gave it its last serious expression.
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Rene Descartes
Rene Descartes (1596–1650), the French philosopher and mathematician, is regarded as the founder of modern philosophy.
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Benedict de Spinoza
Benedict de Spinoza (1632–1677) was born in Amsterdam, where his orthodox Jewish family had fled to 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.
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Gottfried Wilhelm Von Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Von Leibniz (1646–1716) was a German philosopher, mathematician, and political adviser, renowned for his work as a metaphysician and as a logician, and distinguished also for his independent invention of differential and integral calculus.
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