Philosophy in the Enlightenment
By: Meagan Fabacher and Monet Ealy
what is philosophy??
the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, especially when considered as an academic discipline
famous philosophers
1. Francis Bacon (1561-1626)- pointed out intellectual fallacies of the older tradition
2. Rene Descartes (1596-1650)- made doubting the first principle of philosophy
3. John Locke (1632-1704)- one of the three main empiricists
Francis Bacon
He was an English lawyer, a historian and a intellectual reformer.
Rene Descartes
He is known as being the "Father of Modern Philosophy"
John Locke
He is credited for finding the school of thought also known as British Empiricism
Rationalists and Empiricists
rationalists- rather than being a "tabula rasa" to be imprinted with sense data, the mind is structured by, and responds to, mathematical methods of reasoning
empiricists- hold no knowledge to be properly inferred or deduced unless it is derived from one's sense-based experience
George Berkeley
(1685-1753)
David Hume
(1711-1776)
Gottfried Leibinz
(1646-1704)
Works Cited
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Age_of_Enlightenment
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