Early Modern Philosophy

Early Modern Philosophy#




Sections#




Resources#

https://www.earlymoderntexts.com/




Figures#

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1612-1694 Arnauld, Antoine

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1561-1626 Bacon, Francis

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1647-1706 Bayle, Pierre

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1627-1691 Boyle, Robert

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1685-1753 Berkeley, George

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1529-1596 Bodin, Jean

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1546-1601 Brahe, Tycho

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1548-1600 Bruno, Giordano

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1509-1564 Calvin, John

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1623-1673 Cavendish, Margaret

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1675-1729 Clarke, Samuel

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1473-1543 Copernicus, Nicolaus

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1596-1650 Descartes, René

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1713-1784 Diderot, Denis

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1618-1680 Elisabeth of Bohemia

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1564-1632 Galilei, Galileo

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1592-1655 Gassendi, Pierre

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1583-1645 Grotius, Hugo

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1588-1679 Hobbes, Thomas

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1711-1776 Hume, David

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1694-1746 Hutcheson, Francis

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1629-1695 Huygens, Christiaan

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1724-1804 Kant, Immanuel

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1571-1630 Kepler, Johannes

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1646-1716 Leibniz, G. W.

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1632-1704 Locke, John

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1483-1546 Luther, Martin

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1469-1527 Machiavelli, Niccolò

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1638-1715 Malebranche, Nicolas

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1588-1648 Mersenne, Marin

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1533-1592 Montaigne

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1689-1755 Montesquieu

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1614-1687 More, Henry

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1642-1727 Newton, Isaac

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1623-1662 Pascal, Blaise

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1632-1694 Pufendorf, Samuel von

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1712-1778 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1632-1677 Spinoza, Baruch

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1668-1744 Vico, Giambattista

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1694-1778 Voltaire

  • [ w ][ SEP ] 1679-1754 Wolff, Christian

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                                                                                  --------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---- Arnauld
                               ---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------ Bacon
                                                                                                                     ---+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------ Bayle
                                                                                                                                                           -----+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+--- Berkeley
+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------ Bodin
                                                                                                 ---+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+- Boyle
                ----+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+- Brahe
                  --+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ Bruno
                                                                                             -------+---------+---------+---------+---------+--- Cavendish
                                                                                                                                                 -----+---------+---------+---------+---------+--------- Clarke
+---------+--- Copernicus
                                                                  ----+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ Descartes
                                                                                        --+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ Elisabeth of Bohemia
                                  ------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+-- Galilei
                                                              --------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+----- Gassendi
                                                     -------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+----- Grotius
                                                          --+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+--------- Hobbes
                                                                                                                                                                                    +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------ Hume
                                                                                                                                                                    ------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------ Hutcheson
                                                                                                   -+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+----- Huygens
                                                                                                                                                                                                  ------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---- Kant
                                         ---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ Kepler
                                                                                                                    ----+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------ Leibniz
                                                                                                      --------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---- Locke
                                                                                                            --+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+----- Malebranche
                                                          --+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+-------- Mersenne
   -------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+-- Montaigne
                                                                                                                                                               -+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+----- Montesquieu
                                                                                    ------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------- More
                                                                                                                --------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------- Newton
                                                                                             -------+---------+---------+---------+-- Pascal
                                                                                                      --------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---- Pufendorf
                                                                                                                                                                                      --------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+-------- Rousseau
                                                                                                      --------+---------+---------+---------+------- Spinoza
                                                                                                                                          --+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---- Vico
                                                                                                                                                                    ------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+-------- Voltaire
                                                                                                                                                     -+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---- Wolff



Terms#

  • [ SEP ] Atomism from the 17th to the 20th Century

  • [ SEP ] Philosophy and Christian Theology

  • [ SEP ] Philosophy of Cosmology

  • [ SEP ] Primary and Secondary Qualities in Early Modern Philosophy

  • [ SEP ] Process Philosophy

  • [ SEP ] Essential vs Accidental Properties

  • [ SEP ] The Possibilism-Actualism Debate

  • [ SEP ] Rationalism vs Empiricism

  • [ w ] 16th Century Philosophy

  • [ w ] 17th Century Philosophy

  • [ w ] A Posteriori

  • [ w ] A Priori

  • [ w ] Ab initio “from the beginning”

  • [ w ] Ad infinitum “to infinity”

  • [ w ] Acceleration

  • [ w ] Accident

  • [ w ] Action at a Distance

  • [ w ] Analysis

  • [ w ] Arrow of Time

  • [ w ] Atom

  • [ w ] Atomism

  • [ w ] Automaton

  • [ w ] Category, Kantian

  • [ w ] Cauchy Problem

  • [ w ] Causa sui

  • [ w ] Causality

  • [ w ] Causality, Physical

  • [ w ] Classical Mechanics

  • [ w ] Classical Pantheism

  • [ w ] Clockwork

  • [ w ] Clockwork Universe

  • [ w ] Collision

  • [ w ] Cogito ergo sum

  • [ w ] Common Sense

  • [ w ] Consciousness

  • [ w ] Corpuscle

  • [ w ] Corpusculareanism

  • [ w ] Cosmological Argument

  • [ w ] Determinism

  • [ w ] Dogma

  • [ w ] Dual Aspect Theory

  • [ w ] Early Modern Period

  • [ w ] Early Modern Philosophy

  • [ w ] Emergence

  • [ w ] Emergentism

  • [ w ] Empiricism

  • [ w ] Enlightenment Philosophy

  • [ w ] Ens A Se

  • [ w ] Essence

  • [ w ] Essentialism

  • [ w ] Eternalism

  • [ w ] Eternity

  • [ w ] Existence [ SEP ]

  • [ w ] Existence of God

  • [ w ] Extension

  • [ w ] Fatalism

  • [ w ] Fate

  • [ w ] First Principle

  • [ w ] Force

  • [ w ] Formal Distinction

  • [ w ] Free Will

  • [ w ] Geometric Method

  • [ w ] Gravitation [ history ]

  • [ w ] Growing Block Universe

  • [ w ] Hamiltonian Mechanics

  • [ w ] History of Science

  • [ w ] Hypotheses non fingo

  • [ w ] Inertia

  • [ w ] Ipso Facto “by the fact itself”

  • [ w ] Is-Ought Problem

  • [ w ] Lagrangian Mechanics

  • [ w ] Laplace’s Demon

  • [ w ] Late Modern Period

  • [ w ] Law of Nature [ SEP ]

  • [ w ] Laws of Motion, Newtonian

  • [ w ] Materialism

  • [ w ] Matter

  • [ w ] Mechanical Philosophy

  • [ w ] Mechanism

  • [ w ] Method of Doubt

  • [ w ] Mind

  • [ w ] Mind-Body Dualism

  • [ w ] Momentum

  • [ w ] Monism

  • [ w ] Motion

  • [ w ] Natural Order

  • [ w ] Necessitarianism

  • [ w ] Noether’s Theorem

  • [ w ] Nomology

  • [ w ] Noumenon

  • [ w ] Occasionalism [ SEP ]

  • [ w ] Omniscience

  • [ w ] Ontic

  • [ w ] Orrery

  • [ w ] Phenomenon

  • [ w ] Philosophy of Consciousness

  • [ w ] Philosophy of Meaning

  • [ w ] Philosophy of Physics

  • [ w ] Philosophy of Space and Time

  • [ w ] Philosophy of Time

  • [ w ] Positivism

  • [ w ] Predeterminism

  • [ w ] Presentism

  • [ w ] Problem of Induction

  • [ w ] Prolix

  • [ w ] Primary Quality [ SEP ]

  • [ w ] Property

  • [ w ] Quality

  • [ w ] Quantity

  • [ w ] Quidditism

  • [ w ] Rationalism

  • [ w ] Reason

  • [ w ] Reductionism

  • [ w ] Secondary Quality [ SEP ]

  • [ w ] Simulation Hypothesis

  • [ w ] Simulated Reality

  • [ w ] Sine Qua Non

  • [ w ] Skepticism

  • [ w ] Spacetime

  • [ w ] Stationary-Action Principle

  • [ w ] Substance Theory

  • [ w ] Substance-Attribute Theory

  • [ w ] Sui Generis

  • [ w ] Superdeterminism

  • [ w ] Supervenience

  • [ w ] Synthesis

  • [ w ] Tabula Rasa

  • [ w ] Theological Determinism

  • [ w ] Thing In Itself

  • [ w ] Time

  • [ w ] Transcendental Idealism

  • [ w ] Vacuum