| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 297 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Fundamentals of philosophy
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Fundamentals of philosophy (London, England)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: How modern is 'Modern' philosophy? -- Rene Descartes -- Material Monism or the Great Soup of Being: Descartes' account of the natural world -- The possibility of atheism: Descartes and God -- The limits of mechanism: the place of human beings in Descartes' world -- Selling the picture: Descartes' story of doubt and discovery -- Baruch Spinoza -- God, or Nature? Spinoza's pantheism -- The attribute of thought -- Spinoza's ethics: metaphysics and the life of man -- 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 -- 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 -- George Berkeley -- Denying the obvious: Berkeley's radical reinterpretation of human experience -- Berkeley's disproof of the existence of matter -- 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 introductory text for students gives a thematic survey of the ideas of the major philosophers of the 17th and 18th centuries. Topics include Perception And Ideas, Matter And Motion, Necessity And Freedom, And Minds and persons. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Philosophy, Modern -- 17th century.
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Philosophy, Modern. |
| Chronological Term |
17th century |
| Subject |
Philosophy, Modern -- 18th century.
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| Chronological Term |
18th century |
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1600-1799 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Francks, Richard. Modern philosophy. London : Routledge, 2003 1857287622 1857285654 (OCoLC)53389904 |
| ISBN |
0203501179 (electronic book) |
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9780203501177 (electronic book) |
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