Rationalism of Augustine, the Islamic philosopher Avicenna and Jewish philosopher and theologian Maimonides. One notable event in the Western timeline was the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas who attempted to merge Greek rationalism and Christian revelation in the thirteenth-century. Early modern rationalism has its roots in the 17th-century Dutch Republic, with some notable intellectual representatives like Hugo Grotius, René Descartes, and Baruch Spinoza. Descartes was the first of the modern rationalists and has been dubbed the 'Father of Modern Philosophy.' Much subsequent Western philosophy is a response to his writings, which are studied closely to this day. Descartes thought that only knowledge
Nietzsche and Philosophy Spoke Zarathustra" (1883), Nietzsche twice denies that "the eternal return is a circle which makes the same return." "Nietzsche and Philosophy" became a celebrated work. The philosopher Peter Dews writes that "Nietzsche and Philosophy" was central to the post-structuralist texts of the decade that followed its publication, including Deleuze's "Anti-Oedipus" (1972). According to Ronald Bogue, "Nietzsche and Philosophy" marked a significant turning-point in French philosophy, which had previously given little consideration to Nietzsche as a serious or coherent philosopher. Bogue writes that Deleuze was one of the first commentators to discuss the concepts of the will to power and the