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| in the West is generally regarded as seeing the start of modern philosophy, and the shaking off of the medieval approach, especially [[scholasticism]]. It is often called the "Age of Reason" and is considered to succeed the [[Renaissance]] and precede the [[Age of Enlightenment]]. Alternatively, it may be seen as the earlier part of the Enlightenment. | | in the West is generally regarded as seeing the start of modern philosophy, and the shaking off of the medieval approach, especially [[scholasticism]]. It is often called the "Age of Reason" and is considered to succeed the [[Renaissance]] and precede the [[Age of Enlightenment]]. Alternatively, it may be seen as the earlier part of the Enlightenment. |
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| In [[Western Philosophy]], the period is usually taken to start in the seventeenth century with the work of [[René Descartes]], who set much of the agenda as well as much of the methodology for those who came after him. The period is typified in Europe by the great system-builders — philosophers who present unified systems of [[epistemology]], [[metaphysics]], [[logic]], and [[ethics]], and often [[politics]] and the physical sciences too. | | In [[Western Philosophy]], the period is usually taken to start in the seventeenth century with the work of [[René Descartes]], who set much of the agenda as well as much of the methodology for those who came after him. The period is typified in Europe by the great system-builders — philosophers who present unified systems of [[epistemology]], [[metaphysics]], [[logic]], and [[ethics]], and often [[politics]] and the physical sciences too. |
| [[Immanuel Kant]] classified his predecessors into two schools: the [[Rationalism|Rationalists]] and the [[Empiricism|Empiricists]]<ref>[http://www.iep.utm.edu/k/kantmeta.htm#H1 Historical Background of Kent]</ref>, and Early Modern Philosophy (as seventeenth- and eighteenth-century philosophy is known) is often characterised in terms of a supposed conflict between these schools.{{Fact|date=February 2007}} This division is a considerable oversimplification, and it is important to be aware that the philosophers involved did not think of themselves as belonging to these schools, but as being involved in a single philosophical enterprise.{{Fact|date=February 2007}} | | [[Immanuel Kant]] classified his predecessors into two schools: the [[Rationalism|Rationalists]] and the [[Empiricism|Empiricists]]<ref>[http://www.iep.utm.edu/k/kantmeta.htm#H1 Historical Background of Kent]</ref>, and Early Modern Philosophy (as seventeenth- and eighteenth-century philosophy is known) is often characterised in terms of a supposed conflict between these schools.{{Fact|date=February 2007}} This division is a considerable oversimplification, and it is important to be aware that the philosophers involved did not think of themselves as belonging to these schools, but as being involved in a single philosophical enterprise.{{Fact|date=February 2007}} |
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| The seventeenth century in Europe saw the culmination of the slow process of detachment of philosophy from [[theology]]. Thus, while philosophers still talked about – and even offered arguments for the existence of – a [[deity]], this was done in the service of philosophical argument and thought. (In the [[The Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]], the ''Age of Reason'', [[18th century|18th-century]] philosophy was to go still further, leaving theology and [[religion]] behind altogether.) | | The seventeenth century in Europe saw the culmination of the slow process of detachment of philosophy from [[theology]]. Thus, while philosophers still talked about – and even offered arguments for the existence of – a [[deity]], this was done in the service of philosophical argument and thought. (In the [[The Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]], the ''Age of Reason'', [[18th century|18th-century]] philosophy was to go still further, leaving theology and [[religion]] behind altogether.) |
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| * [[Mulla Sadra]] (1571–1640) | | * [[Mulla Sadra]] (1571–1640) |
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| * [http://www2.sas.ac.uk/ies/events/seminars/Emphasis/index.htm EMPHASIS: Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination Seminar] | | * [http://www2.sas.ac.uk/ies/events/seminars/Emphasis/index.htm EMPHASIS: Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination Seminar] |