Re: Modern Philosophy: What to read? Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume
Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2015 11:08 pm
Monadology is a hopelessly simplistic cosmology of no benefit or use; a solution for a problem that does not exist.Impenitent wrote:Leibniz: monadologylukasecho wrote: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.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.
Berkeley : three dialogues
-Imp
Berkeley thinks every thing is an illusion created for us by God, what is the point of him: none.