Philosophy: LECTURE NO. 5. Philosophy of the 17th–18th Centuries: From the Dispute over Method to the Ideology of the Enlightenment

LECTURE NO. 5. Philosophy of the 17th–18th Centuries: From the Dispute over Method to the Ideology of the Enlightenment

Lecture Plan

1. Prerequisites of Early Modern Philosophy

2. Empiricism: The Path of Experience (Francis Bacon)

3. Rationalism: The Path of Reason (René Descartes)

4. Development of Rationalist Systems: Spinoza and Leibniz

5. The Empiricism of T. Hobbes and J. Locke

6. Philosophical Ideas of the Enlightenment: The "Kingdom of Reason"