New Essays on the Rationalists

This collecton presents some of the most vital and original recent writings on Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz, the three greatest rationalists of the early modern period. Their work offered brilliant and distinct integrations of science, morals, metaphysics, and religion, which today remain at the centre of philosophical discussion. These essays explore how these three philosophical systems treated matter, substance, human freedom, natural necessity, knowledge, mind, and consciousness.