Title: The age of faith to the age of reason
Description: Part 2 traces the progress of the Western mind in grappling with the fundamental questions that determine our stance toward being.  This section marks the critical schism between the claims of faith and science, beginning with the works of two saints, Aquinas and Thomas More.  The origins of modern scientific thought are traced, and concludes with by exploring the effects of the rise of science on philosophy.
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation, Medieval Philosophy, Modern Philosophy, Philosophy, History, Western Civilization
People: Thomas Aquinas, Saint (1225?-1274), Thomas More Saint (1478-1535), Niccolo? Machiavelli (1469-1527), Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Rene? Descartes (1596-1650), Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), Benedictus de Spinoza (1632-1677), Isaac Newton (1642-1727), Giambattista Vico (1668-1744), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Freiherr von (1646-1716)
Time periods: 17th century