Download or read book The Rationalists written by John Cottingham and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1988 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This clear, concise account of rationalist philosophy focuses mainly, though not exclusively, on its greatest figures, Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz, showing how closely their ideas are related, despite the radically different philosophical systems they produced.