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Hace 4 días · After that, read Leibniz’ Monadology and Discourse on Metaphysics —or read Spinoza’s Ethics —or you can read both. Both Leibniz and Spinoza are rationalists; however, the two have different approaches to understanding reality within the rationalist paradigm.
Hace 2 días · Moreover, in The Meditations, Descartes discusses a piece of wax and exposes the single most characteristic doctrine of Cartesian dualism: that the universe contained two radically different kinds of substances—the mind or soul defined as thinking, and the body defined as matter and unthinking.
Hace 4 días · Rene Descartes’ Meditations, Objections, and Replies is an online synchronous class, meeting for 8 weeks. Online is pretty self-explanatory. Everything we do in the class happens online, using the course site or Zoom. All the resources for the class are stored and uploaded into that course website.
Hace 6 días · Common to Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz is the aim to construct a rational and internally consistent theory in which metaphysics provides foundational grounding to natural scientific empirical observations and ethical practice.
Hace 2 días · Bacon's empiricism and Descartes' rationalist philosophy laid the foundation for enlightenment thinking. Descartes' attempt to construct the sciences on a secure metaphysical foundation was not as successful as his method of doubt applied in philosophic areas leading to a dualistic doctrine of mind and matter.
Hace 1 día · Spinoza's philosophy encompasses nearly every area of philosophical discourse, including metaphysics, epistemology, political philosophy, ethics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of science. With an enduring reputation as one of the most original and influential thinkers of the seventeenth century, Rebecca Goldstein dubbed him "the renegade Jew who gave us modernity."
Hace 1 día · Descartes' Meditations are a classic of philosophy typically taken as kicking off the modern period of philosophy. In the text, Descartes seeks to knock down and rebuild all of what he knows in order to finally find security in his cognitions and a path forward for securing knowledge of God and man's nature.
