Early Modern Philosophy: Descartes and the Rationalists

Early Modern Philosophy: Descartes and the Rationalists « Series from 2025

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Four centuries ago, bold thinkers put reason in the driver’s seat.

Meet the rationalist philosophers who changed the course of the modern world in Early Modern Philosophy: Descartes and the Rationalists, taught by James D.

Reid, Professor of Philosophy at Metropolitan State University of Denver.

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Philosophy at the Dawn of the Modern Age

René Descartes’s Quest for Certainty

Descartes’s Method and Motives

Elisabeth of Bohemia and Cartesian Ethics

Lady Anne Conway’s Vitalist Metaphysics

Baruch Spinoza on God and Nature

Spinoza on Mind and Emotion

Spinoza on Bondage and Freedom

Nicolas Malebranche’s Occasionalism

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz on Truth and Being

Leibniz on Morality and the Problem of Evil

Rationalism Then and Now