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

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1. Verfasser: Lawler, James (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Rochester, NY University of Rochester Press 2006
Ausgabe:1. publ.
Schriftenreihe:Rochester studies in philosophy 13
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Beschreibung:Contents: 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
Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:574 Seiten
24 cm
ISBN:1580462219
1-58046-221-9