"Modern" Philosophy

Key hallmarks of "Modern" philosophy are:

• Focus on issues of knowledge, skepticism, justification
• Rationalism and Reliance on science
• Individualism
• Faith in progress
• A certain ambivalence about emotions

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Rene Descartes, 1596-1650	Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804

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