Modern philosophers now 30 trace that notion back at least to Descartes and Spinoza,but it was not explicitly articulated until the late eighteenth century, by Kant, and did not become built into the structure of academic institutions and the standard self-descriptions of philosophy professors until the late 35 nineteenth century. Without the idea of epistemology,the survival of philosophy in an age of modern science is hard to imagine. Metaphysics, philosophy s traditional core considered as the most general description of how 40 the heavens and the earth are put together had been rendered almost completely meaningless by the spectacular progress of physics. Kant, however, by focusing philosophy on the problem of knowledge, managed to replace metaphysics with epistemology, and 45 thus to transform the notion of philosophy as queen of sciences into the new notion of philosophy as a separate,foundational discipline: philosophy became primary no longer in the sense of highest but in the sense of underlying .
5. Which of the following best expresses the author s main point?
○A Philosophy s overriding interest in basic human questions is a legacy primarily of the work of Kant.
○B Philosophy was deeply involved in the seventeenth-century warfare between science and religion.
○C The set of problems of primary importance to philosophers has remained relatively constant since antiquity.
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