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Author Gilson, Étienne, 1884-1978.

Title Modern philosophy: Descartes to Kant / Etienne Gilson [and] Thomas Langan.

Publication Info. New York : Random House, [1963]

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Description 570 pages ; 25 cm.
Series A History of philosophy
Bréhier, Emile, 1876-1952. History of philosophy.
Contents The breakdown of Aristotelianism -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne -- New ways to knowledge -- Observation and science -- The birth of modern mathematics -- Francis Bacon -- Nature and division of the sciences -- Bacon's clearing away the old -- The new organon -- Thomas Hobbes -- Human knowledge -- Passion and voluntary motion -- The body politic -- Rene Descartes -- The method -- The tree of knowledge -- Prime philosophy -- Natural philosophy -- The cartesian world -- Ethics -- Nicolas Malebranche -- The Cartesians move toward occasionalism -- The christian quest of pere Malebranche -- Sentiments and ideas -- Vision of the ideas in God -- The occasional causes -- Moral doctrine -- Blaise Pascal -- The method of geometry -- Spirit of finesse and spirit of geometry -- Between pyrrhonism and dogmatism -- Man in the middle -- Man and god -- Benedictus Spinoza -- The unique substance -- Human Nature -- Knowledge, passion, and survival -- Knowledge and love of God as Beatitude -- Spinoza's impact on the eighteenth century -- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz -- First truths -- Individual substances and how they form a universe -- The monads -- The different sorts of compound substances -- The problem of freedom -- The problem of evil -- Christian Wolff -- Leibniz enters the schools -- Wolff's division of the sciences -- What Wolff acheived -- The Cambridge platonists -- The reaction to puritanism -- The anti-materialism of the Cambridge group -- John Locke -- Background, method, and importance of an essay concerning human understanding -- Innate clear and distinct ideas refused -- The origin and nature of our ideas -- The reality and extent of our knowledge -- Locke's political philosophy -- The influence of Newton -- George Berkeley -- An attack against abstraction -- The nature of the concrete thing -- The attack on "material substance" -- Defense of the reality of the sensible world -- The existence of God and the problem of intersubjectivity -- A spiritually grounded science of nature -- The vocation and duty of man -- Berkeley's influence -- David Hume -- The nature of our ideas -- The role of the imagination -- Cause and effect -- belief in existence -- The attack on the metaphysical unities -- The guidance of human affairs -- Condillac -- Critique of the systems -- Beyond Locke: The essay -- Beyond Berkeley: The treatise -- The reaction against Locke -- The philosophical reaction: Thomas Reid -- Gerdil's christian reaction -- D'Alembert and the idea of an encyclopedia -- Diderot, the soul of the encyclopedia -- The letter on blindmen -- The dream of D'Alembert -- Voltaire -- The "Philosophic spirit" -- A "philosopher's world -- Voltaire and the encyclopedists -- Vico and the new science -- Humanism versus Cartesianism -- The new sciece -- Montesquieu -- The nature of law -- Natural and positive laws -- Governments, their natures and principles -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- The discourse on sciences and arts -- The origin of inequalities -- The social contract -- Education -- Rousseau's profession of faith -- Condorcet -- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing -- Lessing's aesthetic theory -- Religious-philosophical views -- Johann Gottfried Herder -- Aesthetic theory -- Herder, philosopher of history -- Immanuel Kant -- Transcendental aesthetic -- The concepts of the understanding -- The mediating function of the imagination -- The metaphysical use of the categories -- The critique of practical reason -- The critique of judgment
Subject Philosophy, Modern.
Philosophy, Modern.
Added Author Langan, Thomas.