EARLY MODERNITY:<br />RATIONALISM AND MEANINGS OF THE HUMAN
Keywords:
Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, principle, rationalism, human beingAbstract
The present paper enquires into some of the differences that occur from the principle com-mitments made by Rene Descartes, Thomas Hobbes and Baruch Spinoza in the develop-ment of their rational philosophies. More specifically, I will focus on what content is given by each for what a human being is in its most general explanation, and subsequently reveal the different course of their theories. Although they accept a science and a philosophy up-held by scientific methods and causal rationality as the criteria for all knowledge, the results are considerably different. The final approach will consider the ethical side of their phi-losophies, in regard to human freedom.References
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