... contributions, not an individual who knew and discussed the works of philosophers. A goal of many philosophers in the ancient world was to tie ethics, metaphysics, physics, the science of knowledge, logic, and politics together so that one's theory of knowledge determined one's understanding of the universe, and 2 individuals understanding of the universe affected how one acted (Hallsall). In the modern era, for the most part, philosophers tend to concentrate ... life, and even so for the philosopher. Aristotle's scientific training kept him from dictating superhuman ideals and unattain...

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... dedication to reason and rational thought that until quite recently the era was sometimes characterized as the Age of Reason. The turn toward what became known by 1750 as the Enlightenment began in the late seventeenth ... universe. Perhaps a similar order and rationality could be imposed on the social and political institutions. This ideal fired the imagination of the leaders of the Enlightenment, who gradually became known as philosophes, simply French for "philosophers." But regardless of ... and the feminist Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) who prepared to endorse an immediate politic...

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