![]() Gottlieb describes how these two "staccato bursts"-each one only lasting for 150 years-contained the essence of two and a half millennia of Western philosophy. In The Dream of Enlightenment, Gottlieb describes the second "burst" starting with René Descartes, then Thomas Hobbes, Baruch Spinoza, John Locke, Gottfried Leibniz, David Hume, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and the philosophes. In his 2000 publication, The Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance, Gottlieb described the first of two explosions of thought that contributed to western philosophical traditions-starting with the Athenian philosophers, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. ![]() The book is the second volume in a series of three written as an introduction to Western philosophy for a broad audience. It is a sequel to his 2001 nonfiction, The Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance. The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy is a 2016 nonfiction book by Anthony Gottlieb, a former editor of The Economist. ![]()
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