| Description |
xvii, 570 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
A history of philosophy
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Pt. 1. The dawn of modern times -- 1. The breakdown of Aristotelianism -- 2. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne -- 3. New ways to knowledge -- Pt. 2. The beginnings of modern philosophy -- 4. Francis Bacon -- 5. Thomas Hobbes -- 6. René Descartes -- Pt. 3. Christian philosophy -- 7. Nicolas Malebranche -- 8. Blaise Pascal -- Pt. 4. The golden age of metaphysics -- 9. Benedictus Spinoza -- 10. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz -- 11. Christian Wolff -- Pt. 5. A golden age in England -- 12. The Cambridge platonists -- 13. John Locke -- 14. The influence of Newton -- Pt. 6. The philosophies of the human mind -- 15. George Berkeley -- 16. David Hume -- 17. Condillac -- 18. The reaction against Locke -- Pt. 7. The age of the philosophers -- 19. D'Alembert and the idea of an encyclopedia -- 20. Diderot, the soul of the Encyclopedia -- 21. Voltaire -- Pt. 8. The philosophies of society -- 22. Vico and the new science -- 23. Montesquieu -- 24. Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- 25. Condorcet -- Pt. 9. Germany, from Aufklärung to criticism -- 26. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing -- 27. Johann Gottfried Herder -- 28. Immanuel Kant. |
| Subject |
Philosophy, Modern.
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| Added Author |
Langan, Thomas. Author.
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