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Tag: early-modern

Pages tagged with early-modern.

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• Baruch Spinoza

  Dutch-Jewish rationalist philosopher (1632–1677), author of the Ethica ordine geometrico demonstrata (1677) and the Tractatus theologico-politicus (1670). On the wiki, Spinoza enters as the single most extensively engaged early-modern phil…

• Christian Wolff

  German philosopher (1679–1754), the systematizer of post-Leibnizian rationalism into the Schulphilosophie that dominated the eighteenth-century German universities until Kant. Author of two parallel encyclopedic systems — the Vernünftige G…

• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

  German philosopher and mathematician (1646–1716), author of the Monadology (1714), the Discours de métaphysique (1686), the Theodicy (1710), co-inventor (with Newton) of the differential calculus, formulator of the principium rationis suff…

• Jean de La Fontaine

  French poet and fabulist (1621–1695), author of the Fables choisies, mises en vers (12 books, 1668–1694). On the wiki La Fontaine appears through BS-I in the load-bearing role of supplying the seminar's opening epigraph and operative fable…

• René Descartes

  French philosopher and mathematician (1596–1650). Already pervasive in this wiki as a topic (the cogito, the Cartesian way that Merleau-Ponty and Husserl both contest; "Descartes as a cultural institution … singular like a tone, a style, o…

• Thomas Hobbes

  English philosopher (1588–1679), author of De Cive (1642/1647), Leviathan (1651), De Corpore (1655), De Homine (1658), Behemoth (1668, published posthumously 1681), Decameron Physiologicum (1678). The foundational figure of modern state-so…