Western philosophy: Enlightenment

In most Western societies, guilt is widely regarded as a vital moral emotion.

Georges Dicker here provides a commentary on John Locke's masterwork, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding-the foundational work of classical Empiricism.

The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Friendship is a superb compilation of chapters that explore the history, major topics, and controversies in philosophical work on friendship.

In this book, Jeffrey Bercuson presents the immense, and yet for the most part unrecognized, influences of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel on John Rawls, the most important political philosopher of the 20th century.

The Cartesian Split examines the phenomenon of Cartesian influence as a psychological complex in the Jungian tradition.

Our contemporary world presents a seemingly inexplicable paradox.

"e;Kant's Critique of Pure Reason"e; remains one of the landmark works of Western philosophy.

Gewirth's theory of human rights has made a major contribution to philosophy.

Originally published in 1996, this book presents and analyses children's reasonings about fundamental metaphysical problems.

This book provides a new interpretation of the ethical theory of G.

This book offers the first comprehensive critical study of David Hume's Four Dissertations of 1757, containing the Natural History of Religion, the Dissertation on the Passions, and the two essays Of Tragedy and Of the Standard of Taste.

The Cartesian Split examines the phenomenon of Cartesian influence as a psychological complex in the Jungian tradition.

This collection of essays challenges the prevailing assumption that eighteenth-century German philosophy prior to Kant was largely defined by post-Leibnizian rationalism and, accordingly, a low esteem of the cognitive function of the senses.

Hegel's holistic metaphysics challenges much recent ontology with its atomistic and reductionist assumptions; Stern offers us an original reading of Hegel and contrasts him with his predecessor, Kant.

This book, first published in 1935, is an examination of Hume's theories of causal inference and belief in substance and his analysis of the understanding.

Brings scholarly attention to the least studied of Spinoza''s major works, from a range of different scholarly perspectives.

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

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In this book, Michael Huemer and Bryan Frances debate whether - and how - we can gain knowledge of the world outside of our own minds.

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.

This book introduces students and other interested readers to the philosophical study of skepticism, a central and long-standing subject in philosophy.

Explores how, after Nietzsche, Dionysus and the ancient Greeks would never be the same again.

Im Kontext der Krise des Theismus stellt Bernhard Nitsche in diesem Band seine Theorie einer dreifachen Strukturierung menschlicher Transzendenzbezüge vor Theologen und Philosophen unterschiedlicher Fachdisziplinen zur Debatte.

Descartes is widely acknowledged as a central figure in the origins of modernity.

This collection presents the first sustained examination of the nature and status of the idea of principles in early modern thought.

At the apex of his influence, from about 1860 up to the start of World War I, Schopenhauer was known first and foremost as a philosopher of pessimism.

For science to remain a legitimate and trustworthy source of knowledge, society will have to engage in the collective processes of knowledge co-production, which not only includes science, but also other types of knowledge.

This outstanding collection of specially commissioned chapters examines German idealism from several angles and assesses the renewed interest in the subject from a wide range of fields.

This book brings together three major studies from Isaiah Berlin's central intellectual project to explain the opposition to the excessively scientistic French Enlightenment by getting under the skin of its critics and giving a sympathetic account of their views.

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

This book re-examines the roles of causation and cognition in early modern philosophy.

Immanuel Kant's enduring influence on philosophy is indisputable.

Scholarship on Immanuel Kant and the German Idealists often attends to the points of divergence.

In 18th-century Germany philosophers were occupied with questions of who we are and what we should be.

This book examines the significance of Kant's moral philosophy in contemporary philosophical debates.

Can we prove the necessity of our best physical theories by rational means, without appeal to experience?

Arguably the leading British historian of his generation, Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914–2003) is most celebrated and admired as the author of essays.

Few books have had as great an impact on intellectual history as Kant's The Moral Law.

Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art defines a new cartographic aesthetic, or what Simonetta Moro calls carto-aesthetics, as a key to interpreting specific phenomena in modern and contemporary art, through the concept of poetic cartography.

This two-volume work examines far-reaching debates on the concept of courage from Greek antiquity to the Christian and mediaeval periods, as well as the modern era.

David Hume is widely recognised as the greatest philosopher to have written in the English language.

This edition of George Berkeley's Philosophical Commentaries, first published in 1989, provides an accurate transcription of Berkeley's manuscript, and introduction to set it in perspective, extensive notes to aid in interpreting it, and a full index to facilitate the use of it.

The seventeenth-century philosopher Spinoza was expelled from the Jewish community of Amsterdam the age of twenty-four for 'horrendous heresies', and was eventually reviled by all religious authorities for claiming that human beings are parts of a single, unified nature, that God is identical with nature, and that reason, not revelation, supplies the truth of any aspect of God.

The Rise and Fall of Scottish Common Sense Realism examines the ways in which five Scottish philosophers - Lord Kames (1696-1782), Thomas Reid (1710-1796), Dugald Stewart (1753-1828), Sir William Hamilton (1788-1856), and James Frederick Ferrier (1808-1864) - tackled a problem which has haunted Western philosophy ever since Descartes: that of determining whether any form of perceptual realism is defensible, or whether the very idea of a material world existing independently of perception and thought is more trouble than it is worth.

Why do people work for other people?

This is the first English-language book to examine Kant''s empirical psychology, applying it throughout Kant''s philosophy and to contemporary philosophical issues.

Rene Descartes credited his success in philosophy, mathematics, and physics to the discovery of a universal method of inquiry, but he provided no systematic description of his method.