Modern western philosophy is commonly assumed to start with in the 16th century, and includes as major figures Leibniz, Descartes, Spinoza, Hume, Locke, Berkeley, and Kant.
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A 17th-century school of English philosophical and theological thought which opposed both Oxford Scholasticism and the Cartesian mechanistic tradition. Its Neoplatonic metaphysical doctrines placed a strong emphasis on innate ideas.
Cartesianism is the mechanistic philosophical and scientific movement which grew out of the writings of Descartes and dominated much of 17th-century European intellectual discourse.
Rationalistic movement in eighteenth-century Europe, generally held to have ended with the French Revolution.
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Philosophers who did their principal work in the Modern (or Early Modern) period, after the middle ages and before the 19th century.
Description: Philosophers who did their principal work in the Modern (or Early Modern) period, after the middle ages and before the 19th century.
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