British Philosophy and the Age of Enlightenment

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Brown, Stuart

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This fifth volume covers many of the most important philosophers and movements of the nineteenth century, including utilitarianism, positivism and pragmatism.

Contenu

1. Lord Herbert of Cherbury and the Cambridge Platonists
2. Science and British philosophy: Boyle and Newton
3. Locke: knowledge and its limits
4. Locke's political theory
5. George Berkeley
6. David Hume on human understanding
7. Hume: moral and political philosophy
8. British moralists of the eighteenth century: Shaftesbury, Butler and Price
9. The French Enlightenment I: science, materialism and determinism
10. The French Enlightenment II: deism, morality and politics
11. The Scottish Enlightenment
12. The German Aufklärung and British philosophy
13. Giambattista Vico
14. Rousseau and Burke