Lawler Matter and Spirit

The Battle of Metaphysics in Modern Western Philosophy before Kant
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-1-58046-663-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 13, 584 Seiten

Reihe: Rochester Studies in Philosophy

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lawler, James

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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