One misconception amongst students in understanding what modern philosophy is and what it consists of. Is because when we hear the word "modern" we assume it to mean the philosophical views of people we see to be in our own era of time, i.e. the 20th & 21st centuries. As disappointing as this may seen, this is simply not true.
Modern philosophy concerns a branch of philosophy that originated around the 17th Century in Western Europe and is now studied across the world. It is a basis for which most western philosophys are based.
And so we being our journey into Modern Philosophy with the study of Descartes...
