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Matter and spirit : the battle of metaphysics in modern Western philosophy before Kant /

This narrative shows how the contours of moral and political philosophy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were shaped by Kant's two distinct philosophical responses to the results of modern science. This history of early modern Western philosophy takes its inspiration from Kant's...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lawler, James M., 1940-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2006.
Colección:Rochester studies in philosophy ; 13.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Hobbes on morality and the modern science of motion
  • Freedom as the realization of desire
  • Leviathan : the making of a mortal God
  • John Locke : underlaborer of the new sciences
  • Locke on the freedom of the human spirit
  • From Berkeley to Hume : the radicalization of empiricism
  • Hume's science of the dynamics of the passions
  • Adam Smith deciphers the invisible hand of the market
  • Contradictions of economic life
  • I think : Descartes' foundation of modern science
  • God and the good society
  • Leibniz's discovery of universal freedom
  • The best of all possible worlds
  • Justifying God's ways : Kant's progress from Leibniz through Pope to Rousseau
  • Rousseau's reasoning of the heart.