Early modern philosophy

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Early modern philosophy, though a term not in wide use, is generally regarded as the period in late renaissance philosophy starting with the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century, and ending with the Enlightenment era.

The main theme of the period is the rise of the Cartesian method in philosophy, and the subsequent decline of the Scholastic method. It is often characterised in terms of the conflict between the competing schools of Rationalism as represented by [[Ren� Descartes|Descartes]], Leibniz and Spinoza, and Empiricism, represented by Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley and Hume, though this may be a simplification.

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