Tag: Modern History

April 18, 2018 Descartes thinks that body and mind are separate entities: Why is this still important?

Descartes is considered by many as the most influential thinker of the early modern era. He came up with the aspect of accepting as true only what is indubitable in order to analyse the external world and ‘the existence of God‘, famously exemplified in his Meditations on First Philosophy.

December 14, 2011 New Book Forthcoming: Europe and America in the Mirror – Culture, Economy, and History

A vivid and more or less stable partnership between European and American countries is generally regarded as a key issue…