A Philosophical Map These two main schools of epistemological thought... The Rationalist Philosophers René Descartes 1596-1650 Benedictus de Spinosa 1632-1677 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646-1716 and The Empiricist Philosophers John Locke 1561-1620 George Berkeley 1685-1753 David Hume 1711-1776 ... and the tensions between these two schools of thought converge in the work of (1724-1804) especially in his book The Critique of Pure Reason (1781) In that book, the central question is... Is it even possible to know what's Really Real? When later Philosophers ask that question they end up giving different answers to it. The main possible answers to that Big Question include these: No, it's not possible to know what's really real Yes, it is possible, and what's really real is Yes, it is possible, and what's really real is Yes, it is possible, and what's really real is Nihilism Matter Spirit Will Karl Marx G W F Hegel Arthur Schopenhauer Descendants of Schopenhauer's thought include... Existentialism Friedrich Nietzsche Soren Kierkegaard Jean-Paul Sartre Albert Camus etc Depth Psychology Sigmund Freud Alfred Adler Carl Jung Viktor Frankl Abraham Maslow etc
A Philosophical Map
The Rationalist Philosophers René Descartes 1596-1650 Benedictus de Spinosa 1632-1677 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646-1716 and The Empiricist Philosophers John Locke 1561-1620 George Berkeley 1685-1753 David Hume 1711-1776
The main possible answers to that Big Question include these: No, it's not possible to know what's really real Yes, it is possible, and what's really real is Yes, it is possible, and what's really real is Yes, it is possible, and what's really real is Nihilism Matter Spirit Will Karl Marx G W F Hegel Arthur Schopenhauer Descendants of Schopenhauer's thought include... Existentialism Friedrich Nietzsche Soren Kierkegaard Jean-Paul Sartre Albert Camus etc Depth Psychology Sigmund Freud Alfred Adler Carl Jung Viktor Frankl Abraham Maslow etc
Friedrich Nietzsche
Soren Kierkegaard
Jean-Paul Sartre
Albert Camus
etc
Sigmund Freud
Alfred Adler
Carl Jung
Viktor Frankl
Abraham Maslow
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