Tradition
Modern philosophy
Overview
Modern philosophy is philosophy developed in the modern era and associated with modernity. It is not a specific doctrine or school (and thus should not be confused with Modernism), although certain assumptions are common to much of it, which helps to distinguish it from earlier philosophy.
The 17th and early 20th centuries roughly mark the beginning and the end of modern philosophy. How much of the Renaissance should be included is a matter of dispute, as is whether modernity ended in the 20th century and has been replaced by postmodernity. How one answers these questions will determine the scope of one's use of the term "modern 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
States what Modern philosophy is; opens on Modern philosophy.
For modern philosophy is, as every college senior recites, epistemology; and epistemology, as perhaps our books and lectures sometimes forget to tell the senior, has absorbed Stoic dogma. Passionless imperturbability, absolute detachment, complete subjection to a ready-made and finished reality--physical it may be, mental it may be, logical it may be--is its professed ideal.
John Dewey, The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy, and other essays in contemporary thought
States what Modern philosophy is; the author is tied to Modern philosophy in the knowledge graph.
The origin of modern philosophy is analogous to that of science, and is contemporaneous. The general trend of its development was settled in the seventeenth century, partly at the hands of the same men who established the scientific principles.
Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the modern world
States what Modern philosophy is; opens on Modern philosophy.
Philosophers who discussed Modern philosophy
- George Berkeley
- Callicles
- Heraclitus
- James Mill
- Seyyed Hossein Nasr
- Anthony Collins (philosopher)
- Mortimer J. Adler
- Leo Strauss
- George Henry Lewes
- Socrates
- Martin Heidegger
- Roderick Chisholm
- Ernest Sosa
- Swami Vivekananda
- Alfred Korzybski
- Cornelius Van Til
- Jean-Luc Marion
- Joseph Agassi
- August Cieszkowski
- Cornelio Fabro
- Wincenty Lutosławski
- Javed Ahmad Ghamidi
- Rodrigo de Arriaga
- Michael Williams (philosopher)
Related ideas
- The Prince
- Empiricism
- Francisco Suárez
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Francis Bacon
- Germany
- George Berkeley
- G. E. Moore
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Thomas Carlyle
- Innatism
- Giordano Bruno
- Philosophy
- Historicism
- Immanuel Kant
- John Searle
- Atheism
- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
- Idealism
- John Stuart Mill
- Analytic philosophy
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Place in the tradition
Part of American philosophy.