History of Modern Philosophy

History of Modern

Philosophy

 Modern philosophy traditionally begins with René Descartes and his dictum "I  think, therefore I am". In the early seventeenth century the bulk of philosophy was  dominated by Scholasticism, written by theologians and drawing upon Plato, 

Aristotle, and early Church writings.

 Modern philosophy is philosophy developed in the modern era and associated with modernity. It is not a specific doctrine or school (and

thus should not be confused with Modernism), although there are certain assumptions common to much of it, which helps to distinguish it from earlier philosophy. ( Baird, Forrest E.; Walter Kaufmann (2008). From Plato to Derrida. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall. 

ISBN 0-13-158591-6.)

 The 17th and early 20th centuries roughly mark the beginning and the end of modern philosophy. How much of the Renaissance should be included is a matter for dispute; likewise modernity may or may not have ended in the twentieth century and been replaced by 

postmodernity. How one decides these questions will determine the

scope of one's use of the term "modern philosophy

 Renaissance philosophers[edit]

 Pico della Mirandola

 Nicolas of Cusa

 Giordano Bruno

 Galileo Galilei

 Niccolò Machiavelli

 Michel de Montaigne

 Francisco Suárez

 Rationalists[edit]

 Christian Wolf

 René Descartes

 Baruch Spinoza

 Gottfried Leibniz

 Empiricists

 John Locke

 George Berkeley

 David Hume

 Francis Bacon

Political Philosophers;

 United Kingdom

 Thomas Hobbes

 John Locke

 John Stuart Mill

 Jeremy Bentham

 James Mill

 France

 Montesquieu

 Jean-Jacques Rousseau

 Voltaire

 Italy

 Cesare Beccaria

 Giambattista Vico

 Giuseppe Mazzini

 Germany

 Karl Marx

 Friedrich Engels

 Idealist philosophers



Immanuel Kant



Johann Gottlieb Fichte



Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling



Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel



Arthur Schopenhauer



Francis Herbert Bradley



J. M. E. McTaggart



John Foster

 Existential philosophers

 Søren Kierkegaard

 Friedrich Nietzsche

 Jean-Paul Sartre

 Simone de Beauvoir

 Karl Jaspers

 Gabriel Marcel

 Martin Heidegger

 Phenomenological philosophers;

 Edmund Husserl

 Martin Heidegger

 Maurice Merleau-Ponty

 Max Scheler

 Pragmatist philosophers[edit]

 Charles Sanders Peirce

 William James

 John Dewey

 Richard Rorty

 Analytic philosophers[edit]

 Rudolf Carnap

 Gottlob Frege

 George Edward Moore

 Bertrand Russell

 Moritz Schlick

 Ludwig Wittgenstein