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Locke, science and politics /
"In this ground-breaking book, Steven Forde argues that John Locke's devotion to modern science deeply shaped his moral and political philosophy. Beginning with an account of the classical approach to natural and moral philosophy, and of the medieval scholasticism that took these forward i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Science and morality; Aristotle and the Aristotelian tradition; Medieval Aristotelians, Scholastic and anti-Scholastic: Aquinas and Ockham; The modern revolt: Francis Bacon; Pierre Gassendi, Robert Boyle, and the post-Baconian project
- 2. Locke's moral epistemology; Qualities and substances; There is no such thing as snow; Moral ideas as "mixed modes"; Probability and certainty; Pufendorf on "moral modes" and voluntarism; Locke and moral "demonstration"; Consciousness and moral motivation; Postscript: Locke and Kant
- 3. The paradoxes of Locke's moral and political teachingThe Two Treatises of Government; Property and charity; The natural law background; The "new natural law"; Property, charity, and the Lockean common good; Justice and charity; Equality versus rationality?
- 4. Conclusion: Some Thoughts Concerning Education and Lockean happiness; Fundamental principles in Some Thoughts Concerning Education; The moral lessons of Some Thoughts Concerning Education; Varieties of civility; Lockean civility; Lockean happiness; Epilogue: Locke and Benjamin Franklin; References; Index.