{"id":22024,"date":"2023-06-15T03:05:13","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T03:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/between-rationalism-descartes-spinoza-leibniz-and-empiricism-locke-berkeley-hume-which-do-you-prefer-and-why-use-readings-with-quotes-and-citations\/"},"modified":"2023-06-15T03:05:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T03:05:13","slug":"between-rationalism-descartes-spinoza-leibniz-and-empiricism-locke-berkeley-hume-which-do-you-prefer-and-why-use-readings-with-quotes-and-citations","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/between-rationalism-descartes-spinoza-leibniz-and-empiricism-locke-berkeley-hume-which-do-you-prefer-and-why-use-readings-with-quotes-and-citations\/","title":{"rendered":"Between rationalism (Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz) and empiricism (Locke, Berkeley, Hume) which do you prefer and why? Use readings with quotes and citations."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Modern Philosophy, The Rationalist Tradition: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz. The Empirical Tradition: Locke, Berkeley, Hume. Reading:<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/iep.utm.edu\/cont-rat\/ <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Links to an external site.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/iep.utm.edu\/locke\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Links to an external site.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Supplemental <\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/x1vedej<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

 (Links to an external site.)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Spinoza : The Apostle of Reason <\/span>
<\/span>Year: 1994 Written by Tariq Ali, Directed by Christopher Spencer, Henry Goodman as Spinoza. An excellent and quite accurate film on Spinoza. This film presents the life and thought of Spinoza against the turmoil of seventeenth-century Europe. A fascinating modern man, Spinoza challenged orthodoxy in both religion and politics, angering his traditional contemporaries. (The film is also on Youtube.)<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Bryan MaGee conversations are helpful too. Here is the conversation on Spinoza, the introduction (first 10 minutes) also serves as a good introduction to Descartes.<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OLZqMQdVCXA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Links to an external site.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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 <\/span>Other Supplemental links:<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.iep.utm.edu\/spinoza\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Links to an external site.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.iep.utm.edu\/leib-met\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Links to an external site.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.iep.utm.edu\/berkeley\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Links to an external site.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.iep.utm.edu\/hume\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Links to an external site.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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For research start with links above then move on to the Stanford Philosophy Encyclopedia and The IEP (search by the name of each philosopher on both sites), and ideally the philosopher directly. <\/span><\/p>\n

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 Discussion (750-2500 words): Between rationalism (Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz) and empiricism (Locke, Berkeley, Hume) which do you prefer and why? Use readings with quotes and citations.  <\/span><\/p>\n

It is probably easiest to pick a single philosopher from the reading and video and use that to build your argument. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Modern Philosophy, The Rationalist Tradition: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz. The Empirical Tradition: Locke, Berkeley, Hume. Reading: https:\/\/iep.utm.edu\/cont-rat\/  Links to an external site. https:\/\/iep.utm.edu\/locke\/ Links to an external site.   Supplemental  https:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/x1vedej  (Links to an external site.) Spinoza : The Apostle of Reason Year: 1994 Written by Tariq Ali, Directed by Christopher Spencer, Henry Goodman as Spinoza. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[702],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/22024"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/22024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=22024"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=22024"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=22024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}