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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lawler, James M., 1940-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2006.
Series:Rochester studies in philosophy. [13].
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Online Access:Table of contents
Table of 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.