Tradition
Early modern philosophy
Overview
Early modern philosophy (also classical modern philosophy) was a period in the history of philosophy that overlaps with the beginning of the period known as modern philosophy. It succeeded the medieval era of philosophy. Early modern philosophy is usually thought to have occurred between the 16th and 18th centuries, though some philosophers and historians may put this period slightly earlier. During this time, influential philosophers included Descartes, Locke, Hume, and Kant, all of whom contributed to the current understanding of philosophy.
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Modern philosophy is generally taken as beginning with Descartes, who flourished in the first half of the seventeenth century. We have already had occasion, in Chapter XVI, to consider his argument “I think, therefore, I am”, but now we will deal with him somewhat more generally.
Bertrand Russell, Philosophy
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Immanuel Kant is generally regarded as the greatest of the modern philosophers. Though he lived through the Seven Years War and the French Revolution, he never interrupted his teaching of philosophy at Königsberg in East Prussia.
Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy
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Philosophy is the system of all philosophical cognition. We must use this term in an objective sense, if we understand by it the archetype of all attempts at philosophizing, and the standard by which all subjective philosophies are to be judged. In this sense, philosophy is merely the idea of a possible science, which does not exist in concreto, but to which we endeavour in various ways to approximate, until we have…
Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason
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Philosophers who discussed Early modern philosophy
- Francisco Suárez
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Robert Merrihew Adams
- Thomas Aquinas
- Richard Popkin
- Michael Friedman (philosopher)
- Jonathan Bennett (philosopher)
- Peter Adamson (philosopher)
- Howard Robinson
Related ideas
- Empiricism
- Belief
- Mind–body problem
- French Revolution
- Francis Bacon
- George Berkeley
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Western philosophy
- An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
- Isaac Newton
- Immanuel Kant
- Individualism
- Atheism
- Johannes Kepler
- John Calvin
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- John Locke
- Giambattista Vico
- Authority
- Nicolas Malebranche
- Samuel von Pufendorf
- Francis Hutcheson (philosopher)
- Metaphysics
- Leviathan (Hobbes book)
Place in the tradition
Part of Anti-realism.