The roots of early modern philosophy can be traced back as far as the 1200s — to the most mature moment of the scholastic tradition. The philosophies of authors such as Aquinas (1225-1274), Ockham (1288-1348) and Buridan (1300-1358) accorded full trust to human rational faculties: If we have the faculty of reasoning then we shall trust that through such faculty we can achieve a full understanding of worldly and divine matters