Western philosophy: Enlightenment

Francois-Marie Arouet wrote under the nom de plume of Voltaire, and produced works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, and historical and scientific works.

Francois-Marie Arouet wrote under the nom de plume of Voltaire, and produced works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, and historical and scientific works.

The theoretical knowledge of right and law in principle, as distinguished from positive laws and empirical cases, belongs to the pure science of right The science of right thus designates the philosophical and systematic knowledge of the principles of natural right.

Benedict de Spinoza's writings laid the groundwork for the 18th century Enlightenment and for modern Biblical criticism.

The German Enlightenment and the Rise of Historicism traces the thought of a large and neglected group of German thinkers and their encounter with the ideas and ideal of the Enlightenment from 1740 to 1790.

Often described as the culmination of the French Enlightenment, the Encyclopedie was collected not only to serve as a comprehensive reference work, but to "e;change the way men think"e; about every aspect of the human and natural worlds.

George Turnbull belongs with a group of early Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, including Francis Hutcheson, who found their native Calvinism too repressive.

Kant's Ethics: The Good, Freedom, and the Will is a systematic examination of Kant's ethics that recognizes the central importance of the good in relation to duty as forming a unified whole, in accordance with Kant's intent.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), more commonly referred to as simply Waldo, was an American lecturer, essayist, poet, philosopher, and leader of the mid-1900s transcendentalist movement.

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'A fascinating book, bursting with paradoxes, riddles and counterintuitive ideas that will challenge some of your strongest beliefs about how society works' Daniel Susskind'It takes scholarly courage and knowledge to upend Adam Smith, but this is what Krzysztof Pelc has done .

Das "Buch vom Fürsten" ist eine politische Abhandlung aus dem 16.

Collected here are eight short essays, On Authorship, On Style, On the Study of Latin, On Men of Learning, On Thinking for Ones Self, On Criticism, On Reputation, On Genius, by the world renowned philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer.

Collected here are six short essays, The Basis of All Dialect, Stratagems, On the Comparative Place of Interest and Beauty in Works of Art, Psychological Observations, On the Wisdom of Life: Aphorisms, and, Genius and Virtue, by the world renowned philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer.

Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher best known for his book, The World as Will and Representation.

Through reflection or introspection it is possible to attempt to know if a sound, shape, movement, or color can exist unperceived by a mind?

Life is a Dream is a philosophical allegory regarding the human situation and the mystery of life.

Berkeley uses Hylas as his primary contemporary philosophical adversary, and using Philonous, he argues his own metaphysical views.

This collection contains 59 essays, published at various times between 1597 and 1625, on subjects ranging among state policy, personal conduct and the appreciation of nature.

The 'Discourse on the Method' is a philosophical and mathematical treatise published by Rene Descartes in 1637.

Meditations on First Philosophy is a philosophical treatise written by Rene Descartes first published in Latin in 1641.

William James was the older brother of novelist Henry James, and a pioneering psychologist and philosopher.

Collected here are nine short essays, On the Sufferings of the World, The Vanity of Existence, On Suicide, Immortality: A Dialogue, Psychological Observations, On Education, Of Women, On Noise, and, A Few Parables, by the world renowned philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer.

'A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful' is a 1757 treatise on aesthetics written by Edmund Burke.

Collected here in this omnibus edition are Immanuel Kant's three most important works on the Metaphysics of Morals and Ethics.

THE science which has to do with nature clearly concerns itself for the most part with bodies and magnitudes and their properties and movements, but also with the principles of this sort of substance, as many as they may be.

William James believed that events could not be catalogued simply as a series of facts, but had to be considered through the lens of experience.

A lively examination of the life and work of one of the great Enlightenment intellectualsPhilosopher, translator, novelist, art critic, and editor of the Encyclopedie, Denis Diderot was one of the liveliest figures of the Enlightenment.

Salomo Friedlaender was a prolific German-Jewish philosopher, poet, and satirist.

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

Verificationism has been a hallmark of logical empiricism.

Verificationism has been a hallmark of logical empiricism.

The literary and scientific renaissance that struck Germany around 1800 is usually taken to be the cradle of contemporary humanism.

The literary and scientific renaissance that struck Germany around 1800 is usually taken to be the cradle of contemporary humanism.

Figures of Natality reads metaphors and narratives of birth in the age of Goethe (1770-1832) as indicators of the new, the unexpected, and the revolutionary.

Figures of Natality reads metaphors and narratives of birth in the age of Goethe (1770-1832) as indicators of the new, the unexpected, and the revolutionary.

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

Bentham on Liberty focuses on the crucial formative years, when the English social philosopher Jeremy Bentham was in his twenties and thirties between 1770 and 1790, and draws on the unpublished manuscripts held at University College, London, to throw a new light on his early intellectual development.

In this new and original book, Claire Armon-Jones examines the concept of affect and various philosophical positions which attempt to define and characterize it: the standard view, the neo-cognitivist view, and the objectual thesis.

Five Groundbreaking Moments in Heidegger's Thinking presents a fresh interpretation of some of Heidegger's most difficult but important works, including his second major work, Beitrage zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis) [Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning)].

Five Groundbreaking Moments in Heidegger's Thinking presents a fresh interpretation of some of Heidegger's most difficult but important works, including his second major work, Beitrage zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis) [Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning)].

A new idea of the future emerged in eighteenth-century France.

A new idea of the future emerged in eighteenth-century France.

Die »Chronik der philosophischen Werke« ist ein Lexikon von ganz besonderer Art: Sie gibt annotierte Übersicht über die zeitliche Nähe (oder auch Ferne) der Erstveröffentlichungen bedeutender philosophischer Schriften und Werke seit Gutenbergohne eine vorlaufende Einordnung und Sortierungder einzelnen Titel nach Schulen, Richtungen oder anderenKriterien.

Immanuel Kant influenced a large and productive group of political philosophers in the 1790s.

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

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

First published in 1752, Excerpt from the Doctrine of Reason [Auszug aus der Vernunftlehre] was written as a textbook and widely adopted by many 18th-century German instructors, but most notably by Immanuel Kant.