Western philosophy: Enlightenment

The essays collected in this volume by Paul Guyer, one of the world's foremost Kant scholars, explore Kant's attempt to develop a morality grounded on the intrinsic and unconditional value of the human freedom to set our own ends.

The essays collected in this volume by Paul Guyer, one of the world's foremost Kant scholars, explore Kant's attempt to develop a morality grounded on the intrinsic and unconditional value of the human freedom to set our own ends.

In this book, Alison Laywine takes up the mystery of the Transcendental Deduction in Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.

In this book, Alison Laywine takes up the mystery of the Transcendental Deduction in Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.

'Man being born.

'Man being born.

Agricultural Enlightenment explores the modernization of the rural economy in Europe through the lens of the Enlightenment.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Catharine Macaulay was a celebrated republican historian, whose account of the reasons for the seventeenth-century English Revolution, the parliamentary period, and its aftermath was widely read by the mothers and fathers of American Independence and by central players in the French Revolution.

Catharine Macaulay was a celebrated republican historian, whose account of the reasons for the seventeenth-century English Revolution, the parliamentary period, and its aftermath was widely read by the mothers and fathers of American Independence and by central players in the French Revolution.

The extraordinary breadth and depth of Leibniz's intellectual vision commands ever increasing attention.

The extraordinary breadth and depth of Leibniz's intellectual vision commands ever increasing attention.

Immanuel Kant's enduring influence on philosophy is indisputable.

Immanuel Kant's enduring influence on philosophy is indisputable.

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.

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.

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.

Throughout his writings, and particularly in Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason, Kant alludes to the idea that evil is connected to self-deceit, and while numerous commentators regard this as a highly attractive thesis, none have seriously explored it.

Throughout his writings, and particularly in Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason, Kant alludes to the idea that evil is connected to self-deceit, and while numerous commentators regard this as a highly attractive thesis, none have seriously explored it.

Eric Schliesser's Adam Smith is the product of two decades' reflection by the author on the great Scottish Enlightenment.

Eric Schliesser's Adam Smith is the product of two decades' reflection by the author on the great Scottish Enlightenment.

This volume collects the private letters and published epistles of English women philosophers of the early modern period (c.

This volume collects the private letters and published epistles of English women philosophers of the early modern period (c.

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

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

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

The acquisition of self-knowledge is often described as one of the main goals of philosophical inquiry.

There is a general sense that the philosophy of Descartes was a dominant force in early modern thought.

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.

Offering an original perspective on the central project of Descartes' Meditations, this book argues that Descartes' free will theodicy is crucial to his refutation of skepticism.

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.

We have long been taught that the Enlightenment was an attempt to free the world from the clutches of Christian civilization and make it safe for philosophy.

There is a general sense that the philosophy of Descartes was a dominant force in early modern thought.

The recent renewal of the faith-reason debate has focused attention on earlier episodes in its history.

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

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

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-81) stands as a key figure in German intellectual history, a bridge joining Luther, Leibniz, and German idealism.

This book defends a new interpretation of Hegel's theoretical philosophy, according to which Hegel's project in his central Science of Logic has a single organizing focus, provided by taking metaphysics as fundamental to philosophy, rather than any epistemological problem about knowledge or intentionality.

The central thesis of this book is that Western culture, and American culture in particular, needs an immediate change with regard to food and eating.

We have long been taught that the Enlightenment was an attempt to free the world from the clutches of Christian civilization and make it safe for philosophy.

Offering an original perspective on the central project of Descartes' Meditations, this book argues that Descartes' free will theodicy is crucial to his refutation of skepticism.

The acquisition of self-knowledge is often described as one of the main goals of philosophical inquiry.

This is a work in Kantian conceptual geography.

Kant's discussion of the relations between cognition and self-consciousness lie at the heart of the Critique of Pure Reason, in the celebrated transcendental deduction.