Early modern · 1631–1679
Who influenced Anne Conway?
Influences and legacy
Attacked Cartesian dualism with a monism of spirit and matter that Leibniz read closely.
Anne Conway was influenced by René Descartes, and went on to influence Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. That is 2 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Anne Conway?
Anne Conway was an English philosopher in the tradition of the Cambridge Platonists who built an original rationalist philosophy. She rejected Descartes's dualism of mind and matter, holding that nature is made of a single substance.
Against the mechanists she argued that matter is not passive but has its own motion, perception and life.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Anne Conway?
1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.
- René Descartes 1596–1650
Who did Anne Conway influence?
1 thinker on this map draws directly on Anne Conway.
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646–1716
The line of teachers behind Anne Conway
The longest documented line of influence ending at Anne Conway runs 15 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
Two steps away from Anne Conway
Indirect influences
- Through René Descartes: Augustine of Hippo, Anselm of Canterbury, Al-Ghazali, Thomas Aquinas, Michel de Montaigne
The second generation
Contemporaries of Anne Conway
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Anne Conway, with no direct line between them.
- John Locke 1632–1704
- Baruch Spinoza 1632–1677
- Nicolas Malebranche 1638–1715
- Blaise Pascal 1623–1662
- Margaret Cavendish 1623–1673
- Pierre Bayle 1647–1706
Anne Conway by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 1
- Direct followers
- 1
- Thinkers upstream
- 56
- Thinkers downstream
- 108
- Wikipedia languages
- 26 — #36 of 36 among early modern philosophers
- Card rarity
- Rare
Questions about Anne Conway
- Who influenced Anne Conway?
- René Descartes.
- Who did Anne Conway influence?
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
- When did Anne Conway live?
- 1631–1679. The map files Anne Conway under the early modern period.
- How rare is the Anne Conway card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Anne Conway in 26 languages, which makes it a Rare card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646–1716
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