Early Enlightenment French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes invented a new genre of philosophy,we might say, one that would dominate the century to approach. Before Locke, and Leibniz,or Kant, Descartes stood out as a "theist rationalist.” Rather than trusting in revelation, or he leaned solely on logic and reason,creating a set of “rules for […]
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