Western philosophy: Enlightenment

In Conservatism, Past and Present: A Philosophical Introduction, Tristan J.

Der Band enthält die Hauptvorträge und Sektionsbeiträge der Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für die Erforschung des 18.

Standard accounts of nineteenth-century German philosophy often begin with Kant and assess philosophers after him in light of their responses to Kantian idealism.

The extraordinary breadth and depth of Leibniz's intellectual vision commands ever increasing attention.

This book addresses the 'perennial' question of the meaning of life from the point of view of a novel interpretation of Aristotle's teleology.

This volume collects 12 essays by various contributors on the subject of the importance and influence of Schopenhauer's doctoral dissertation (On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason) for both Schopenhauer's more well-known philosophy and the ongoing discussion of the subject of the principle of sufficient reason.

Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) defines sympathy as a series of shifts in perspective by which one sees from a different point of view.

This book offers new perspectives on the theoretical elements of the Opus postumum (OP), Kant's project of a final work which remained unknown until eighty years after his death.

Presenting the most comprehensive and lucid account of the topic currently available, Robert Audi's "e;Practical Reasoning and Ethical Decision"e; is essential reading for anyone interested in the role of reason in ethics or the nature of human action.

In Kant's Human Being, Robert B.

An internationally famous philosopher and best-selling author during his lifetime, Georg Simmel has been marginalized in contemporary intellectual and cultural history.

Wie steht es heute mit der Aufklärung?

Immanuel Kant and Henry Sidgwick are towering figures in the history of moral philosophy.

In Kant's Human Being, Robert B.

Berkeley's critique of abstract ideas in the Introduction to Principles of Human Knowledge has provoked a great deal of commentary of various sorts.

This collection of 28 original essays examines the diverse scope of John Locke s contributions as a celebrated philosopher, empiricist, and father of modern political theory.

Since the publication of Roy Bhaskar's A Realist Theory of Science in 1975, critical realism has been evolved as one of the new developments in the areas of philosophy of natural and social science which offers an alternatively fresh view to the existing theories including positivism and post-modernism.

The scope and method of logic as we know it today eminently reflect the ground-breaking developments of set theory and the logical foundations of mathematics at the turn of the 20th century.

Erhard Weigel (1625–1699), Mathematiker, Astronom, Physiker, Pädagoge, Philosoph und Erfinder, steht seit mehreren Jahren wieder zunehmend im Blickpunkt wissenschaftshistorischer Forschung.

This book offers new perspectives on the historical origins and contemporary challenges of modern hermeneutics through a detailed exploration of Herder''s Enlightenment philosophy.

The Quakers were by far the most successful of the radical religious groups to emerge from the turbulence of the mid-seventeenth century--and their survival into the present day was largely facilitated by the transformation of the movement during its first fifty years.

Uncover the truth among the myths, fictions, and lore of the French Revolution.

Emmanuel Kant has the distinction of having introduced a great revolution into philosophy and yet stood the test of time.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Roman, Briefsteller" verfügbar.

Provides a clear and comprehensive explanation of Peirce''s thought and analyses his challenge to nominalism as a theory of meaning.

The thought of Immanuel Kant is fundamental to understanding Western philosophy.

From the bestselling author of Science: A History comes the enthralling story of a revolution that shook the world.

Beim Wort »Aufklärung« denken wir zunächst und zumeist an Immanuel Kant und sein berühmtes Diktum vom »Ausgang des Menschen aus seiner selbstverschuldeten Unmündigkeit«.

Dieses Themenheft versammelt Studien zu einzelnen Konzepten und Modellen, die seit dem frühen 20.

This book situates John Locke's philosophy of knowledge and his political theory within his engagement in British monetary debates of the 17th and 18th century.

This book describes the "e;naturalistic fallacy"e;, as attributed to Hume, that non-moral premises cannot logically entail a moral conclusion, and distinguishes it from the similarly named though subtly different fallacy identified by Moore in Principia Ethica by comparing and contrasting its presence in a range of ethical or moral systems.

Expressions of gratitude abound.

Dieser Band versammelt die Beiträge einer Tagung, die im Februar 2019 mit Unterstützung des Forschungsverbunds Marbach Weimar Wolfenbüttel und der Dr.

Kant Troubleoffers a highly original and incisive reading of some of the lesser known aspects of Kantian thought.

In dieser Schrift von 1725 werden vier zentrale Problembereiche behandelt: 1.

This volume analyses the causes and consequences of the Jesuit Suppression, one of the most dramatic events in eighteenth-century history.

David Hume was the most important British philosopher of the eighteenth century.

Die in diesem Band vereinten Texte (Psychologia empirica, Metaphysica §§ 501-623; Philosophische Briefe: Zweiter Brief an Aletheophilus; Philosophia generalis § 147 I; Aesthetica § 1; Kollegium über die Ästhetik § 1), lassen die Einbettung der Baumgartenschen Ästhetik als der Lehre vom sinnlichen Erkennen in seine metaphysische Gesamtkonzeption deutlich werden.

More than 50 years after the publication of Thomas Kuhn's seminal book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, this volume assesses the adequacy of the Kuhnian model in explaining certain aspects of science, particularly the social and epistemic aspects of science.

Agricultural Enlightenment explores the modernization of the rural economy in Europe through the lens of the Enlightenment.

Eine Reflexion aus Kants handschriftlichem Nachlass, in der von einer anthropologia transcendentalis die Rede ist, lost Verwunderung aus.