Western philosophy: Enlightenment

Our experience of other individuals as minded beings goes hand in hand with the awareness that they have a unique epistemic and emotional perspective on the experienced objects and situations.

In this incisive work, Michelson traces contemporary debates on the doctrine of God back in time to the philosophical critiques of Hume and Kant.

In der Aufklärung ist »Moral« Wertvorstellung, Kampfbegriff, aber vor allem eine umfassende Kommunikationsstrategie.

Gegenstand des Jahrbuches Aufklärung« ist die Erforschung des 18.

Immanuel Kant: 300.

Leibniz's theory of knowledge, unlike his logic and metaphysics, has until now received little attention from philosophers.

This book reconstructs Spinoza's theory of the human mind against the backdrop of the twofold notion that subjective experience is explainable and that its successful explanation is of ethical relevance, because it makes us wiser, freer, and happier.

Hume's Science of Human Nature is an investigation of the philosophical commitments underlying Hume's methodology in pursuing what he calls 'the science of human nature'.

A solid grasp of the main themes and arguments of the seventeenth-century philosopher Rene Descartes is essential for understanding modern thought, and a necessary entree to the work of the Empiricists and Immanuel Kant.

Onora O'Neill is one of the foremost moral philosophers writing today.

'This is a blast of fresh air' Jonathan Clark, TLS'Thank goodness for Gottlieb' Daily Telegraph'A joy to read' EconomistThe author of the celebrated The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of modern thought from Descartes to RousseauIn a short period - from the early 1640s to the eve of the French Revolution - Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, and Hume all made their mark on Western thought.

This book assesses and defends Kant's Critical epistemology, and the rich yet neglected resources it provides for understanding and resolving fundamental issues regarding human experience, perceptual judgment, empirical knowledge and cognitive sciences.

The chapters in this volume investigate the question of where, and in what sense, the bounds of intelligible thought, knowledge, and speech are to be drawn.

David Hume's philosophical work presents the reader with a perplexing mix of constructive accounts of empirically guided belief and destructive sceptical arguments against all belief.

Dieser Band enthält 26 Aufsätze und Vorträge zu den wichtigsten Denkern der klassischen deutschen Philosophie.

Descartes is widely regarded to be the father of modern philosophy and his Meditations is among the most important philosophical texts ever written.

Developing work in the theories of action and explanation, Eldridge argues that moral and political philosophers require accounts of what is historically possible, while historians require rough philosophical understandings of ideals that merit reasonable endorsement.

In this book, Bryan Wesley Hall breaks new ground in Kant scholarship, exploring the gap in Kant's Critical philosophy in relation to his post-Critical work by turning to Kant's final, unpublished work, the so-called Opus Postumum.

Stefanie Buchenau explores the philosophical and conceptual origins of aesthetics and the philosophy of art.

David Hume (1711-1776), philosopher, historian, and essayist, is widely considered to be Britain's greatest philosopher.

Debates in Modern Philosophy: Essential Readings and Contemporary Responses provides an in-depth, engaging introduction to important issues in modern philosophy.

Questions of truth have occupied philosophers, scientists, and theologians throughout human history.

The reputation of the Marquis de Sade is well-founded.

What Socrates's greatest failure says about a 2,000-year-old question: is it possible to teach ourselves and others to become better people?

Die Zeit zwischen Siebenjährigem Krieg und Französischer Revolution hat ein Potential an Menschen und Ideen bereitgestellt, das für die weitere Entwicklung von entscheidender Bedeutung war.

This book examines the significance of Kant's political philosophy in the context of contemporary philosophical and political debates.

This is the first book to trace the doctrine of the guise of the good throughout the history of Western philosophy.

Armed with the insights of the scientific revolution, the men of the Enlightenment set out to free mankind from its age-old cocoon of pessimism and superstition and establish a more reasonable world of experiment and progress.

This book reconstructs and defends Heidegger''s interpretive method, tracing that method across his reading of Kant''s Critique of Pure Reason.

Die Frage nach dem "Sonderweg" der Aufklärung im katholischen Deutschland steht im Mittelpunkt dieses Bandes.

This edited volume systematically addresses the connection between Wilfrid Sellars and the history of modern philosophy, exploring both the content and method of this relationship.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Lustspiele" verfügbar.

Recent work at the intersection of moral philosophy and the philosophy of psychology has dealt mostly with Aristotelian virtue ethics.

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 book offers the first substantial account of Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten's significant influence on Kant's ethics.

Was versteht man eigentlich unter einem System?

Sustainability has become a compelling topic of domestic and international debate as the world searches for effective solutions to accumulating ecological problems.

Freedom and its internal relation to reason is fundamental to Descartes' philosophy in general, and to his Meditations on First Philosophy in particular.

Translated by Peter ConstantineEdited and with a new introduction by Leo Damrosch'Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains' is the dramatic opening line of The Social Contract, published in 1762.

Die vorliegende Arbeit macht es sich zur Aufgabe, die Leistungen des Siècle des Lumières für den bislang kaum gewürdigten Bereich der kulturhistorischen Ablösung rhetorischer Oralität durch eine sich nun ästhetisch ausdifferenzierende Schreibkultur sowie für die eng hieran geknüpfte Diskussion um die Erkenntnis- wie Kommunikationsfähigkeit der Belles Lettres zu beschreiben und eklektisch (zwischen Literarhistorie und Dekonstruktion) zu evaluieren.

Zweifellos hat kaum ein Denker die abendländische Philosophie und Geistesgeschichte so maßgebend geprägt wie Immanuel Kant.

An extensively updated guide to all aspects of Spinoza''s philosophy written by leading scholars of his work and influence.

It is widely believed that Hume often wrote carelessly and contradicted himself, and that no unified, sound philosophy emerges from his writings.

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

This book offers a sustained scholarly analysis of Gadamer's reflections on art and our experience of art.