This book is a wide-ranging examination of rationalist thought in philosophy from ancient times to the present day.

• Written by a superbly qualified cast of philosophers;
• Critically analyses the concept of rationalism;
• Focuses principally on the golden age of rationalism in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries;
• Also covers ancient rationalism, nineteenth-century rationalism, and rationalist themes in recent thought;
• Organised chronologically;
• Various philosophical methods and viewpoints are represented.
  

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