The Rise of Modern Philosophy: The Tension between the New and Traditional Philosophies from Machiavelli to Leibniz by Tom Sorell

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The Rise of Modern Philosophy: The Tension between the New and Traditional Philosophies from Machiavelli to Leibniz by Tom SorellISBN: 9780198236054 Oxford University Press, 28 December 1995 Paperback, 362 pages Modern" philosophy in the West is said to have begun with Bacon and Descartes. Their methodological and metaphysical writings, in conjunction with the discoveries that marked the seventeenth century scientific revolution, are supposed to have interred both Aristotelian and scholastic science and the philosophy that supported it. But did the new or "modern" philosophy

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