Renaissance & Early Modern Philosophy

15th Century ~ 17th Century

The awakening of reason and self-identity. Breaking away from theology, thinkers established grand rationalism (Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz) and ground-breaking empiricism (Bacon, Locke, Berkeley, Hume).

Philosophers in This Epoch (21)

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