Western philosophy: Enlightenment

Around the middle of the eighteenth century, the leading figures of the French Enlightenment engaged in a philosophical debate about the nature of music.

Immanuel Kant's Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason is a seminal text in modern philosophy, ethics, and the philosophy of religion.

Building on the results of the Groundwork and the Critique of Practical Reason, Kant finally published his system of moral philosophy in two volumes in 1797.

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

The first modern English edition of diverse Enlightenment-era writings by Prussian monarch Frederick the GreatFrederick II of Prussia (1712-1786), best known as Frederick the Great, was a prolific writer of philosophical discourses, poems, epics, satires, and more, while maintaining extensive correspondence with prominent intellectuals, Voltaire among them.

Contemporary interest in realism and naturalism, emerging under the banner of speculative or new realism, has prompted continentally-trained philosophers to consider a number of texts from the canon of analytic philosophy.

Fenelon is arguably one of the most neglected major philosophers of early modernity.

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

Kant's Transcendental Semantics is a translation of the most influential monograph on Kant published in Brazil, one that launched the "e;Semantic School"e; in a country with a thriving tradition of Kant scholarship.

This volume responds to the growing interest in finding explanations for why moral claims may lose their validity based on what they ask of their addressees.

We share the capacity for knowledge with animals, but it is the nature and the scope of what we may rationally believe that makes us human.

This book, first published in 1990, is a detailed examination of David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature.

Karen Ng sheds new light on Hegel's famously impenetrable philosophy.

The Kant Dictionary is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the world of Immanuel Kant, one of the most important and influential thinkers in the history of philosophy.

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The essence of Hume's eighteenth-century philosophy was that all the sciences were 'dependent on the science of man', and that the foundations of any such science need to rest on experience and observation.

While Kant is commonly regarded as one of the most austere philosophers of all time, this book provides quite a different perspective of the founder of transcendental philosophy.

Organized around eight themes that are relevant to aesthetic theory, this book examines the sources and development of Kant''s aesthetics.

Many philosophers today take the empiricist or rationalist stance that mainstream economics is self-centered and naive.

After Enlightenment: Hamann as Post-Secular Visionary is a comprehensive introduction to the life and works of eighteenth-century German philosopher, J.

Immanuel Kant spent many of his younger years working on what are generally considered his masterpieces: the three Critiques.

Ferran Sáez Mateu traza un recorrido desde la solitaria torre de Montaigne en el siglo XVI hasta la actualidad, marcada por tecnologías que nos fascinan aunque siempre exigen algo a cambio.

This book expounds Kant's Critique of Judgement by interpreting all the details in the light of what Kant himself declares to be his fundamental problem.

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

A positive assessment of secularism and the possibilities it offers for a genuinely meaningful life without religion Although there is no shortage of recent books arguing against religion, few offer a positive alternative—how anyone might live a fulfilling life without the support of religious beliefs.

Was ist und zu welchem Ende studiert man Katholische Aufklarung ?

The problem of moral luck is that there is a contradiction in our common sense ideas about moral responsibility.

This intriguing volume provides a thorough examination of the historical roots of global climate change as a field of inquiry, from the Enlightenment to the late twentieth century.

David Hume was one of the most important British philosophers of the eighteenth century.

This collection addresses metaphysical issues at the intersection between philosophy and science.

The aim of Ethics and Self-Cultivation is to establish and explore a new 'cultivation of the self' strand within contemporary moral philosophy.

Mit seinem ersten Hauptwerk von 1789 schafft Reinhold die Grundlagen für die Auseinandersetzung mit der Kantischen Philosophie und damit für ein Denken, das die philosophische Landschaft tiefgreifend verändern wird, nämlich für den deutschen Idealismus.

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This book offers the first study of the Scottish Enlightenment reception and interpretation of the French Revolution.

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.