Matter and spirit : the battle of metaphysics in modern Western philosophy before Kant /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Rochester, NY :
University of Rochester Press,
2006.
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| 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.