| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 297 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Fundamentals of philosophy.
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Fundamentals of philosophy.
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| Note |
Includesindex. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-291). |
| Contents |
Introduction: How modern is 'modern' philosophy -- pt. 1. René Descartes. Material monism or the great soup of being: Descartes' account of the natural world -- The possibility of atheism: Descartes and God -- The limit of mechanism: the place of human beings in Descartes' world -- Selling the picture: Descartes' story of doubt and discovery -- pt. 2. Baruch Spinoza. God, or nature? Spinoza's pantheism -- The attribute of thought -- Spinoza's ethics: metaphysics and the life of man -- pt. 3. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. The principle of sufficient reason -- The best of all possible worlds -- The world as explicable: Monadology -- Matter, mind and human life: the world as monadic -- pt. 4. John Locke. On living in the world: Locke on the contents of the mind -- Locke on nature (and our knowledge of it) -- The life of man: Locke's political thought -- pt. 5. George Berkeley. Denying the obvious: Berkeley's radical reinterpretationof human experience -- Berkeley's disproof of the existence of matter -- On what there is: Berkeley's virtual reality -- pt. 6. David Hume. Hume's project for a new science: what it is, how it works, and an example -- The failure of the project -- The lessons of Hume: where do we go from here? |
| Summary |
"This book is ideal for anyone coming to the ideas of these philosophers for the first time."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Philosophy, Modern -- 18th century.
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Philosophy, Modern. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
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1600-1799 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Francks, Richard. Modern philosophy 077352682X (OCoLC)52877281 |
| ISBN |
9780773571761 (electronic book) |
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0773571760 (electronic book) |
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9780773526815 |
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077352682X |
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9780773526822 |
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0773526811 |
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0203501179 |
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1857285654 |
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