Western philosophy: Enlightenment

Leading scholars of Kant examine and elucidate his views on evil and how they can be extended to contemporary questions.

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

Kant's Inferentialism draws on a wide range of sources to present a reading of Kant's theory of mental representation as a direct response to the challenges issued by Hume in A Treatise of Human Nature.

This volume highlights and offers different perspectives on the controversies provoked by this central text of Western philosophy.

Gegenstand dieser Untersuchung ist der kantische Substanzbegriff.

Like Kant, the German Idealists, and many neo-Kantian philosophers before him, Nietzsche was persistently concerned with metaphysical questions about the nature of objects.

The book covers Hume's biographical development; his self appraisal as a 'man of letters'; his philosophical writings with emphasis on their direct and indirect economic content; his self-aware criticism of his approach to the Treatise and the development of his rhetorical understanding of the needs/interests of his readers/potential readers; his rhetorical turn and Ciceronian adjustments to his writing within the genre of the essay, including his two Enquiries; his political essays and his nine essays conventionally classified as economic.

Kant's defence of religion and attempts to reconcile faith with reason position him as a moderate Enlightenment thinker in existing scholarship.

Unnerved by the upheavals of the seventeenth century, English writers including Thomas Hobbes, Richard Blackmore, John Locke, Jonathan Swift, and Daniel Defoe came to accept that disorder, rather than order, was the natural state of things.

This book, first published in 1951, is an examination of Hume's 'Treatise of Human Nature', 'An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals', and 'An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding'.

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

This book examines the surprising ramifications of Kant's late account of practical reason's obligatory ends as well as a revolutionary implication of his theory of property.

According to the received view, Kant's critical revolution put an end to the kind of metaphysics of which Leibniz's 'Monadology' is the example par excellence.

Philosophers working within the pragmatist tradition have pictured their relation to Kant and Kantianism in very diverse terms: some have presented their work as an appropriation and development of Kantian ideas, some have argued that pragmatism is an approach in complete opposition to Kant.

This volume explores the themes of vanishing matter, matter and the laws of nature, the qualities of matter, and the diversity of the debates about matter in the early modern period.

Kants Anthropologie (1798) galt lange als eine bloß popularphilosophische Schrift von allenfalls propädeutischem Wert.

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.

This volume brings together a collection of new essays by leading scholars on the subject of causation in the early modern period, from Descartes to Lady Mary Shepherd.

This volume explores the themes of vanishing matter, matter and the laws of nature, the qualities of matter, and the diversity of the debates about matter in the early modern period.

This book argues that Sellars' theory of intentionality can be understood as an advancement of a transcendental philosophical approach.

Neuausgabe des 1915 von Ernst Cassirer übersetzten Textes.

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.

Offering a deep look into the moral uncertainty in the contemporary social sciences and American society, this book explores an in-depth solution.

Slavoj i ek gives us a reading of a philosophical giant that changes our way of thinking about our new posthuman era.

Zu Beginn seiner Abhandlung »Über das einsame Leben« (De vita solitaria) schreibt Francesco Petrarca 1346: »Niemand schafft es, lange unter Wasser zu leben.

In a focused assessment of one of the founding members of the liberal tradition in philosophy and a self-proclaimed Under-Labourer working to support the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century, the author maps the full range of John Locke s highly influential ideas, which even today remain at the heart of debates about the nature of reality and our knowledge of it, as well as our moral and political rights and duties.

In the 1790s, a close-knit group of German philosophers published several garden theory texts.

The Ethics of Need: Agency, Dignity, and Obligation argues for the philosophical importance of the notion of need and for an ethical framework through which we can determine which needs have moral significance.

Johann Nicolaus Tetens zählt zu den bedeutendsten deutschsprachigen Philosophen des 18.

First published in 1951.

This is a collection of Paul Hoffman's wide-ranging essays on Descartes composed over the past twenty-five years.

This Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context.

This volume presents new research on Cartesian psychophysiology that combines historical and textual analysis with a consideration of recent advances in contemporary neuroscience research.

Hugo Grotius (1583–1645) verfasste 1604/05 ein Rechtsgutachten für die Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, aus dem zu seiner Zeit nur ein Kapitel, "Mare liberum", veröffentlicht wurde.

Der zweite Band der Beiträge setzt das vier Jahre zuvor angefangene Projekt einer Aufstellung des Fundaments vom philosophischen Wissen fort und erweitert es in der Anwendung auf Metaphysik, Moral, Religion und Geschmackslehre.

This book considers different forms of voluntarism developed from the thirteenth to eighteenth centuries.

This is the first English-language anthology to provide a compendium of primary source material on the sublime.

Immanuel Kant's work continues to be a main focus of attention in almost all areas of philosophy.

This volume of new essays provides a comprehensive and structured examination of Kant's justification of norms, a crucial but neglected theme in Kantian practical philosophy.

Immanuel Kant is among the most pivotal thinkers in the history of philosophy.

Gegenstand des Jahrbuches Aufklärung« ist die Erforschung des 18.

The Descartes Dictionary is an accessible guide to the world of the seventeenth-century philosopher René Descartes.