Modern Philosophy: What to read? Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume

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Re: Modern Philosophy: What to read? Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume

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Impenitent wrote:
lukasecho wrote:
Dalek Prime wrote:No, seriously. How does one take a philosophy degree and not have some grounding in the major philosophers?

Whitehead sounds good. Longer bucket list.
Well I think you are understestimating how many "years" were involved in "years ago".. I remember Descartes, Locke, Hobbes, but I don't really remember ever reading Berkeley, or Leibniz for instance. Although I suspect that I did at least read a little of them, a week or two on each of them in a First year "Introduction to Philososphy" course.
Leibniz: monadology
Berkeley : three dialogues

-Imp
Monadology is a hopelessly simplistic cosmology of no benefit or use; a solution for a problem that does not exist.
Berkeley thinks every thing is an illusion created for us by God, what is the point of him: none.
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