For instance, Plato's theory of forms does not, to me, seem to jibe with modern physics and cosmology. ... History is, of course necessary to any understanding of philosophy: how it came about, what people did with it. ... Rather, philosophy should be integrated with the rest of the sciences through the method of rational judgment. ... After notable minds of the Ancient World such as Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, by modernist standards, original thinking ceased for many centuries. ... Descartes was the first to bring philosophy to its "renaissance." ...

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Locke is considered to be the founder of British empiricism, while Descartes is considered to be the father of modern philosophy. ... Berkeley's radical opposition to the received view of mathematics in the philosophy of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, when mathematics was considered a "science of abstractions." ...

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