MODERN HISTORY SOURCEBOOK CRIB SHEET
Empiricism and Rationalism
[Note: Crib Sheets are meant as review aids for a particular
period/theme. They are not complete overviews!]
The Rationalist Tradition
Rene Descartes 1591-1650
- Discourse on Method 1637
- Meditationes de Prima Philosophia 1641 (Meditations)
- Principia Philosophiae 1644 (Principles)
- Cogito ergo sum I think therefore I am
- sum res cogitans - I am a being that thinks
Baruch(Benedictus) Spinoza 1632-77
- Tractatus Theologico-Politicus 1670
- Ethics 1677
- Pantheism/Panentheism
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716)
The Empiricist Tradition
Francis Bacon 1561-1626
- Novum Organum 1620
- Theory of Induction
Thomas Hobbes 1588-1679
John Locke 1632-1704
- An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 1690
- Two Treatises of Civil Government 1690
- A Letter Concerning Toleration 1689
- innate ideas
- tabula rasa
Bishop George Berkley 1685-1753
David Hume 1711-1761
- Treatise on Human Nature 1739/40
- An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding 1748
- Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion 1777
- Opposes logic of induction
Immanual Kant 1724-1804
- Critique of Pure Reason 1781
- Critique of Practical Reason 1788
- Categorical imperative
- "inner world within, and starry heavens above"
The French Enlightenment and the Philosophes
Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet) 1694-1778
- Letters on the English 1733
- Lettres Philosophiques 1734
- Elements of the Philosophy of Newton 1738
- Candide 1759
- Dictionnaire Philosophique 1764
- Ecrasez L'infame
Denis Diderot 1713-84
Jean le Rond d'Alembert 1717-83
- The Encyclopedia 1751-72 17 Vols
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