1597 – Nature, data, experiments, inductive reasoning and skepticism are good methods to find truth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon 1637 – Radical doubt. No final ends. Just me. I think, therefore I am. How much can I logically derive from a few irrefutable “first principles”? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Descartes 1648 – We cannot settle religious conflicts by war. We’ll let princes … Continue reading Modern History: Philosophy and Politics