Questions tagged [modern-philosophy]

Nicolas of Cusa wrote De Concordantia Catholica in 1433/34, and it contained pretty revolutionary political ideas: Going beyond tradition and canon law, he argues on the basis of people’s natural freedom (“men are by nature equal in power and…

My history professor recently told us that Michel de Montaigne—who I had never heard of before—had many of Descartes's ideas before Descartes did and that most of Descartes's arguments were not very original but only rehashes of Montaigne's and…

I am new to philosophy and would like to learn more about it in the future. I would like to compile a list of influential philosophers of the 20th and 21st century and a brief overview of their corresponding ideologies/works, so I could get in…