The Age of the Baroque and Enlightenment 1600-1800: Philosophy

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chapter six
PHILOSOPHY

AndrewE.Barnes

IMPORTANT EVENTS … 278
OVERVIEW … 281
TOPICS

Baroque Philosophical Roots … 283
The Scientific Revolution and Philosophical Rationalism … 288
Empiricism … 296
The Enlightenment … 304
The Enlightenment in France … 306
The Enlightenment Elsewhere in Europe … 311
Political Philosophy … 315

SIGNIFICANT PEOPLE

René Descartes … 319
David Hume … 321
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz … 322
John Locke … 323
Baron de Montesquieu … 325

DOCUMENTARY SOURCES … 326

SIDEBARS AND PRIMARY DOCUMENTS
Primary sources are listed in italics
Starting Afresh (preface to Bacon's Novum Organum) … 286
Simple Substances, Complex Theory (excerpt from Leibniz's The Monadology and Other Philosophical Writings) … 294
A Blank Slate (excerpt from Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding) … 299
The Sources of Knowledge (excerpt from Berkely's Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge) … 301
The Impossibility of Miracles (excerpt from Hume's Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding) … 303
The End of the Nose (excerpt from Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary) … 308
Good Government (excerpt from book three of Rousseau's Social Contract) … 309
Nasty, Brutish, and Short (excerpt from Hobbes' Leviathan) … 316

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