The Cartesian Universe and the End of Common Sense
“I realized that it was necessary … to demolish everything completely,” Rene Descartes asserts in his 1641 Meditations on First Philosophy “… and start again right from…
“I realized that it was necessary … to demolish everything completely,” Rene Descartes asserts in his 1641 Meditations on First Philosophy “… and start again right from…
In 1818 while visiting his friend and patron Walter Fawkes, artist J.M.W. Turner was requested to make a painting of a British war ship by Fawkes’ young…
In 1651 Thomas Hobbes published Leviathan, his treatise on the necessity and nature of the modern state. Traditional forms of authority were being challenged and Hobbes argues…