Synopses & Reviews
Founded in the mid-17th century, Rationalism was philosophy's first step into the modern era. This volume contains the essential statements of Rationalism's three greatest figures: Descartes, who began it; Spinoza, who epitomized it; and Leibniz, who gave it its last serious expression.
Table of Contents
René Descartes (1596–1650)Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason and Seeking the Truth in the Sciences (1637)
Meditations of the First Philosophy (1641)
Benedict de Spinoza (1632–1677)
The Ethics (1677)
Gottfried Wilhelm Von Leibniz (1646–1716)
Discourse on Metaphysics (1710)
The Monadology (1716)