The Rationalists: Descartes: Discourse on Method and Meditations; Spinoza: Ethics; Leibniz: Monadology and Discourse on Metaphysics

Founded in the mid-17th century, Rationalism was  philosophy's first step into the modern era. This  volume contains the essential statements of  Rationalism's three greatest figures: Descartes, who  began it; Spinoza, who epitomized it; and Leibniz,  who gave it its last serious expression.