The Rationalists: Descartes: Discourse on Method & Meditations; Spinoza: Ethics; Leibniz: Monadology &...

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Rene Descartes Benedict de Spinoza

The Rationalists

Descartes: Discourse on Method & Meditations; Spinoza: Ethics; Leibniz: Monadology & Discourse...

Rene Descartes, Benedict de Spinoza, Gottfried Wilhelm Vo Leibniz

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Anchor Books
31 March 1999

History of Western philosophy

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.

By: Rene Descartes, Benedict de Spinoza, Gottfried Wilhelm Vo Leibniz
Imprint: Anchor Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 202mm, Width: 133mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 397g
ISBN: 9780385095402
ISBN 10: 0385095406
Pages: 480
Publication Date: 31 March 1999
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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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