Description: |
xi, 301 pages ; 25 cm |
Summary: |
Presents a chronicle of modern thought from Descartes to Rousseau, detailing the role of then-amateur philosophers in shaping Western intellectual pursuits against a backdrop of religious upheaval and the rise of Galilean science. |
Contents: |
The Kingdome of darknesse -- Chronological chart -- Starting afresh : Descartes -- The monster of Malmesbury : Hobbes -- A breeze of the future : Spinoza -- Philosophy for the British : Locke -- An interlude on a comet : Bayle -- The best of all possible compromises : Leibniz -- A treatise of animal nature : Hume -- What has the Enlightenment ever done for us? : Voltaire, Rousseau, and the Philosophes. |
Bibliog.: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-281) and index. |
Subject: |
Philosophy, Modern -- History.
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ISBN/ISSN: |
9780871404435 (hardcover) |
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0871404435 (hardcover) |
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