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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