The author of the celebrated The Dream of Reason vividly explains the
rise of modern thought from Descartes to Rousseau Western philosophy is
now two and a half millennia old, but much of it came in just two
staccato bursts, each lasting only about 150 years. In his landmark
survey of Western philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance, The
Dream of Reason, Anthony Gottlieb documented the first of these, which
came in the Athens of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Now, in The Dream
of Enlightenment, Gottlieb expertly navigates the second great explosion
of thought, taking us to northern Europe in the wake of its wars of
religion and the rise of Galilean science. In a relatively short period –
from the early 1640s to the eve of the French Revolution – Descartes,
Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, and Hume all made their mark. The Dream
of Enlightenment tells their story and that of the birth of modern
philosophy. As Gottlieb explains, all these men were amateurs: none had
much
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