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Scottish Enlightenment
Essays in Reinterpretation
Av Paul Wood
Inbunden, 2000
1707 kr
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A collection of essays dealing with the history of the Scottish Enlightenment, its connection with the European Enlightenment in general, such major figures as Francis Hutcheson, Thomas Reid, and David Hume, and the making of theScottish identity.A collection of ten specially commissioned essays …
Plato's Erotic Thought
The Tree of the Unknown
Av Alfred Geier
Inbunden, 2002
1249 kr
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An attempt, by a close reading of three Platonic dialogues, the Symposium, Lysis, and the Phaedrus, to discover the true nature of the object of Eros and especially to understand the mystery of its birth.This work is an attempt to understand the nature of the object of Eros in Plato's writings. In …
Works of Bishop Butler
Inbunden, 2006
1691 kr
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The complete works of Joseph Butler, newly edited, with an introduction, notes, glossary, and an analytic index.This edition of Bishop Joseph Butler's [1692-1752] complete works is the first newly edited version to appear in a century, and is the only one to include a single, analytic index to the …
David Hume and Eighteenth-Century America
Häftad, 2010
661 kr
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A thorough examination of the influence of David Hume's work early American political thought.This book explores the reception of David Hume's political thought in eighteenth-century America. It presents a challenge to standard interpretations that assume Hume's thought had little influence in …
David Hume and Eighteenth-Century America
Inbunden, 2005
930 kr
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A thorough examination of the role which David Hume's writings played upon the founders of the United States.This book explores the reception of David Hume's political thought in eighteenth-century America. It presents a challenge to standard interpretations that assume Hume's thought had little …
History of Reasonableness
Testimony and Authority in the Art of Thinking
Inbunden, 2004
930 kr
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A defense of the social operation of thinking, with an emphasis on testimony and authority.This book describes a lost tradition that can be called reasonableness. The tradition began with Aristotle, was recommended to Western education by Augustine, flourished in the schools of the Renaissance …
Destined for Evil?
The Twentieth-Century Responses
Inbunden, 2005
958 kr
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This collection of 15 essays on various aspects of the problem of evil brings together the opinions of well known authors from various disciplines [philosophy, theology, literary criticism, political science, etc].This collection brings together a variety of responses to the ancient questions of …
Fire in the Dark
Essays on Pascal's Pensées and Provinciales
Inbunden, 2005
789 kr
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The eight essays in Fire in the Dark frame and probe Pascal's underlying contention that the darkling, "hidden" God of Christian revelation, though Himself a profound mystery, especially in the matter of his justice towardsfallen mankind, can nonetheless be used to demystify questions that matter …
Matter and Spirit
The Battle of Metaphysics in Modern Western Philosophy before Kant
Av James Lawler
Inbunden, 2006
981 kr
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This narrative shows how the contours of moral and political philosophy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were shaped by Kant's two distinct philosophical responses to the results of modern science.This history of early modern Western philosophy takes its inspiration from Kant's claim …
