Document Type : Research

Author

• Seyed Mustafa Shahraeini

Associate Professor in Philosophy, University of Tabriz

Abstract

The present paper aims to introduce, criticize, and survey the Persian translation of  the 4^th volume of The Routledge History of Philosophy: The Renaissance and Seventeenth-century Rationalism, translated by Hasan Murtazawi. The ten volumes Routledge History of Philosophy provides a chronological survey of the history of Western philosophy, from its beginnings in the sixth century BC to the present time. It discusses all the major philosophical developments in-depth. The philosophy discussed in this volume covers a period of three hundred and fifty years, from the middle of the fourteenth century to the early years of the eighteenth century: The birth of modern philosophy. The chief topics are Renaissance philosophy and seventeenth-century rationalism—in particular Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz. This volume has been published 1993 by Routledge and translated into Persian and published in 2014 in Iran. The author aims to introduce these ten volumes,  history in general, and the 4^th one in particular to Persian readers. Then, the content and form of Persian translation has been reviewed and criticized.

Keywords

• Routledge History of Philosophy
• Persian translation
• Renaissance
• Rationalism
• Writing Philosophy in Persian
• Persian Philosophical Terminology

Main Subjects

• Philosophy