Enlightenment And Action From Descartes To Kant

Author : Michael Losonsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521806121
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enlightenment and Action from Descartes to Kant written by Michael Losonsky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-08-13 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book systematically traces the development of the idea that the improvement of human understanding requires public activity.

Author : Michael Losonsky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781139430791
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enlightenment and Action from Descartes to Kant written by Michael Losonsky and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jane O'Grady
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178950645X
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knowledge in a Nutshell: Enlightenment Philosophy written by Jane O'Grady and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...there is nothing elementary about O'Grady's primer. She pulls off the feat of writing a reliable and accessible introduction to modern philosophy that is also a meaningful contribution to the subject." - Times Literary Supplement From Descartes' famous line 'I think therefore I am' to Kant's fascinating discussions of morality, the thinkers of the Enlightenment have helped to shape the modern world. Addressing such important subjects as the foundations of knowledge and the role of ethics, the theories of these philosophers continue to have great relevance to our lives. Ranging across Enlightenment thinking from Berkeley to Rousseau, Enlightenment Philosophy in a Nutshell explains important ideas such as Locke's ideas of primary and secondary qualities, Kant's moral rationalism, and Hume's inductive reasoning. Filled with helpful diagrams and simple summaries of complex theories, this essential introduction brings the great ideas of the past to everyone. ABOUT THE SERIES: The 'Knowledge in a Nutshell' series by Arcturus Publishing provides engaging introductions to many fields of knowledge, including philosophy, psychology and physics, and the ways in which human kind has sought to make sense of our world.

Author : Thomas Vernor Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 918 pages
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Download or read book From Descartes to Kant written by Thomas Vernor Smith and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frederick Charles Copleston
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826469007
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Enlightenment written by Frederick Charles Copleston and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Copleston, an Oxford Jesuit and specialist in the history of philosophy, first created his history as an introduction for Catholic ecclesiastical seminaries. However, since its first publication (the last volume appearing in the mid-1970s) the series has become the classic account for all philosophy scholars and students. The 11-volume series gives an accessible account of each philosopher's work, but also explains their relationship to the work of other philosophers.

Author : Peter Gilmour
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780389209102
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophers of the Enlightenment written by Peter Gilmour and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1990 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first clear and comprehensive introduction to the philosophers of the Enlightenment. Nine contemporary specialists lead the student gently through Enlightenment thought by looking at the lives and writings of individual philosophers, such as Liebniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Reid, Kant, Voltaire and Fourier. This is an introduction to a complex subject which should become recommended reading for students of philosophy from school to university level, as well as anyone interested in Enlightenment thought. Contents: PETER GILMOUR Introduction; STUART BROWN 1. eibniz and the Fashion for Systems and Hypotheses; JOHN WILLIAMSON 2. Boyle and Locke: on Material Substance; STEPHEN CLARK 3. Soft as the Rustle of a Reed from Cloyne (Berkeley); ANGUS J. MACKAY 4. David Hume; R.F. STALLEY 5. Common Sense and Enlightenment: the Philosophy of Thomas Reid; MURRAY MACBEATH 6. Kant; CHRISTOPHER BERRY 7. Adam Smith: Commerce, Liberty and Modernity; PETER JIMACK 8. Voltaire; I.D. LLOYD-JONES 9. Charles Fourier: Faithful Pupil of the Enlightenment; Index^R

Author : Herman de Dijn
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 905867651X
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Concept of Love in 17th and 18th Century Philosophy written by Herman de Dijn and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Love is joy with the accompanying idea of an external cause." Spinoza's definition of love manifests a major paradigm shift achieved by seventeenth-century Europe, in which the emotions, formerly seen as normative "forces of nature," were embraced by the new science of the mind.This shift has often been seen as a transition from a philosophy laden with implicit values and assumptions to a more scientific and value-free way of understanding human action. But is this rational approach really value-free? Today we tend to believe that values are inescapable, and that the descriptive-mechanical method implies its own set of values. Yet the assertion by Spinoza, Malebranche, Leibniz, and Enlightenment thinkers that love guides us to wisdom-and even that the love of a god who creates and maintains order and harmony in the world forms the core of ethical behavior-still resonates powerfully with us. It is, evidently, an idea Western culture is unwilling to relinquish.This collection of insightful essays offers a range of interesting perspectives on how the triumph of "reason" affected not only the scientific-philosophical understanding of the emotions and especially of love, but our everyday understanding as well.

Author : Michael K. Kellogg
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1633887944
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wisdom of the Enlightenment written by Michael K. Kellogg and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enlightenment—Aufklärung in German, Lumières in French—is more an idea than a period. But it is an idea that took hold in a particular historical context of revolutionary scientific advances, increasing economic and social freedom, rising literacy and prosperity, and a greater willingness to challenge the authoritarianism of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In The Wisdom of the Enlightenment, author Michael K. Kellogg points to 1637, the year that gave us Rene Descartes’ landmark inquiry into truth, as the beginning of a period that radically changed individual human thought and collective societal action. From Descartes’ assertion of “I think, therefore I am,” to the philosophies of Enlightenment thinkers like Moliere, Spinoza, Voltaire, Hume, and Kant, this book charts the new and revolutionary philosophies at a time when progress seemed possible across the whole range of human knowledge and endeavor. In sweeping aside tired superstitions and applying a new scientific methodology, the Enlightenment ideas of progress through free exercise of reason ushered us into the modern world. This engaging and comprehensive survey of Enlightenment thoughts and thinkers is a celebration of the faith that all problems are solvable by human reason.

Author : R. J. Snell
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498513190
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Subjectivity written by R. J. Snell and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-03-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern thought is sometimes presented as introducing a “turn to the subject” absent from ancient and medieval thought, although the schools of thought associated with Bernard Lonergan, Eric Voegelin, Leo Strauss, and the new natural law theory often find subjectivity already operative in the older forms. In this volume, sixteen leading scholars examine the turn to the subject in modern philosophy and consider its historical antecedents in ancient and medieval thought.

Author : Katerina Deligiorgi
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791483142
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kant and the Culture of Enlightenment written by Katerina Deligiorgi and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katerina Deligiorgi interprets Kant's conception of enlightenment within the broader philosophical project of his critique of reason. Analyzing a broad range of Kant's works, including his Critique of Pure Reason, the Critique of Judgment, his lectures on anthropology and logic, as well as his shorter essays, she identifies the theoretical and practical commitments that show the achievement of rational autonomy as an ongoing project for the realization of a culture of enlightenment. Deligiorgi also considers Kant's ideas in relation to the work of Diderot, Rousseau, Mendelssohn, Reinhold, Hamann, Schiller, and Herder. The perspective opened by this historical dialogue challenges twentieth-century revisionist interpretations of the Enlightenment to show that the "culture of enlightenment" is not simply a fragment of our intellectual history but rather a live project.