Modern Philosophy startes with Decartes. Honestly I don't have any idea why, or how Plato differs from Hume, but one is classic, and the other is modern. silly classicification made for historians. -jason ________oOOOo__/~~~~__oOOOo_________________________________ Jason Varsoke jvarsoke@bigfoot.com For good mental hygiene, shave with Occam's Razor twice daily On Thu, 15 Jul 1999 Squeila@aol.com wrote: > Yeah, I'm not sure what constitutes modern. We're not reading any Greeks, > but other than that.... Let's see, we've got: Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, > Rousseau, Hegel, and Marx. I love, not so much that I get to read it, > because I could have done that anyway, but that there are still scholars > willing to share their knowledge about it with me, else, I'm not sure reading > it would have much worth in my case. > > Leila > > note that follows signature: While I'm on the topic of school, all the > parentheses in the subject make it look like my logic homework. > > > In a message dated 99-07-15 05:20:57 EDT, you write: > > << Leila, I just LOVE the fact that Hobbes is still on the list of "modern" > political philosophers. In fact, given the front page of almost every > newspaper in the world these days, Old Tom could be penning the headlines: > > LIFE PROVED "NASTY, BRUTISH, SHORT" > > > ....beyond that, I LOVE the fact that they still make students read > LEVIATHAN (even though the list price on my copy is probably much less than > $2.50--and it too was autographed!!!!!!) (....only kidding....) > >> >