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Modern philosophy : the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries /
"This book is ideal for anyone coming to the ideas of these philosophers for the first time."--Jacket
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal [Que.] :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©2003.
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| Colección: | Fundamentals of philosophy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: How modern is 'modern' philosophy
- pt. 1. René Descartes. Material monism or the great soup of being: Descartes' account of the natural world
- The possibility of atheism: Descartes and God
- The limit of mechanism: the place of human beings in Descartes' world
- Selling the picture: Descartes' story of doubt and discovery
- pt. 2. Baruch Spinoza. God, or nature? Spinoza's pantheism
- The attribute of thought
- Spinoza's ethics: metaphysics and the life of man
- pt. 3. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. The principle of sufficient reason
- The best of all possible worlds
- The world as explicable: Monadology
- Matter, mind and human life: the world as monadic
- pt. 4. John Locke. On living in the world: Locke on the contents of the mind
- Locke on nature (and our knowledge of it)
- The life of man: Locke's political thought
- pt. 5. George Berkeley. Denying the obvious: Berkeley's radical reinterpretationof human experience
- Berkeley's disproof of the existence of matter
- On what there is: Berkeley's virtual reality
- pt. 6. David Hume. Hume's project for a new science: what it is, how it works, and an example
- The failure of the project
- The lessons of Hume: where do we go from here?