The Moderns were born in April

Of Course not everyone subscribes to the same list of Modern Philosophers. Everyone's list will be different. For instance Dr. Jesseph taught the Modern Philosophy class at State with Spinoza in it but without Kant in it. Dr. Puryear takes out Spinoza and puts in Kant.

But you never really lose Kant and Descartes as incredibly powerful. Those are the two big ones. Kant learned a lot from Hume and Leibniz, so it seems like they're in, too. Spinoza was a peculiar take on both Hobbes and Descartes, so maybe you could teach Spinoza in there. Meanwhile, Berekeley is obviously almost as American as he is Irish, having started a school over here with donation money, and one of the greater schools, UC Berkeley, having been named after him. Plus he's cool with his ideas of ideas.

Nevertheless, I noticed that these guys have birthdays that are all near each other.

Hobbes was born on April 5th.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobbes

While Descartes was born on March 31
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descartes

While Hume was born on April 26
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hume

Kant was born on April 22
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kant



Hypothesis: Babies born in the spring in Medieval times tend to live longer, as opposed to dying?