Western philosophy: Enlightenment

This book investigates various aspects of freedom as developed in the philosophical systems of Kant and Fichte.

The unlikely story of how Americans canonized Adam Smith as the patron saint of free marketsOriginally published in 1776, Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations was lauded by America's founders as a landmark work of Enlightenment thinking about national wealth, statecraft, and moral virtue.

In this book, Bryan Wesley Hall breaks new ground in Kant scholarship, exploring the gap in Kant's Critical philosophy in relation to his post-Critical work by turning to Kant's final, unpublished work, the so-called Opus Postumum.

One of the world's most important political philosophers, Jon Elster is a leading thinker on reason and rationality and their roles in politics and public life.

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

Blindness and Enlightenment presents a reading and a new translation of Diderot's Letter on the Blind.

Philosophers, anthropologists and biologists have long puzzled over the question of human nature.

In this book, Marek Sullivan challenges a widespread consensus linking secularization to rationalization, and argues for a more sensual genealogy of secularity connected to affect, race and power.

This book examines the significance of Kant's political philosophy in the context of contemporary philosophical and political debates.

This new study of eighteenth-century aesthetic theory situates it in theological contexts that are crucial to explaining why it arose.

This edited collection responds to the contemporary need for deeper analysis and rethinking of the relation between education and emancipation in a world beset by social, digital, educational and ecological crises.

Explores the basis of Kant''s anti-naturalist, secular, humanist vision of human flourishing, presented in an accessible and engaging way.

This book situates John Locke's philosophy of knowledge and his political theory within his engagement in British monetary debates of the 17th and 18th century.

David Hume was the most important British philosopher of the eighteenth century.

This volume presents the excellent and popular translation by Haldane and Ross of Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy, an introduction by Stanley Tweyman which explores the relevance of Descartes' Regulae and his method of analysis in the Meditations, and six articles which indicate the diversity of scholarly opinion on the topic of method in Descartes' philosopy.

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.

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

This volume presents twelve original essays, by an international team of scholars, on the relation of John Locke's thought to Descartes and to Cartesian philosophers such as Malebranche, Clauberg, and the Port-Royal authors.

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

The thesis of this book, first published in 1972, is that Kant's notions of 'absolute worth', the 'unconditioned' and 'unconditioned worth' are rationalistic and confused, and that they spoil his ontology of personal value and tend to subvert his splendid idea of the person as an End in himself.

The Quakers were by far the most successful of the radical religious groups to emerge from the turbulence of the mid-seventeenth century--and their survival into the present day was largely facilitated by the transformation of the movement during its first fifty years.

Movies hold a mirror up to us, portraying the complexities of human reality through their characters and stories.

In his late work Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason, Immanuel Kant struggles to answer a straightforward, yet surprisingly difficult, question: how is radical conversion-a complete reorientation of a person's most deeply held values-possible?

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.

In this book, Arthur gives fresh interpretations of Gottfried Leibniz's theories of time, space, and the relativity of motion, based on a thorough examination of Leibniz's manuscripts as well as his published papers.

The Other Adam Smith represents the next wave of critical thinking about the still under-examined work of this paradigmatic Enlightenment thinker.

Peter Anstey presents a thorough and innovative study of John Locke's views on the method and content of natural philosophy.

The Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals^ is one of the most important works of moral philosophy ever written, and Kant's most widely read work.

Kant on Intuition: Western and Asian Perspectives on Transcendental Idealism consists of 20 chapters, many of which feature engagements between Kant and various Asian philosophers.

The founder of both American pragmatism and semiotics, Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is widely regarded as an enormously important and pioneering theorist.

Is Kant really the 'bourgeois' philosopher that his advocates and opponents take him to be?

The Finnish philosopher Eino Kaila (1890-1958) wrote a classic statement of Logical Empiricism.

Immanuel Kant gehört zweifellos zu den bedeutendsten europäischen Philosophen.

First Published in 2016.

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

The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries represent a period of remarkable intellectual vitality in British philosophy, as figures such as Hobbes, Locke, Hume, and Smith attempted to explain the origins and sustaining mechanisms of civil society.

Does perception provide us with direct and unmediated access to the world around us?

Thomas Reid (1710-96) was a contemporary of both David Hume and Immanuel Kant, and a central figure in the Scottish School of Common Sense.

An exploration of imagination as a creative power in Kant''s aesthetics and his philosophical enterprise.

Verificationism has been a hallmark of logical empiricism.

Throughout his career, Kant engaged with many of the fundamental questions in philosophy of religion: arguments for the existence of God, the soul, the problem of evil, and the relationship between moral belief and practice.

Covers key philosophical, interpretive and textual issues, including an extensive further reading essay and translation notes.

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.

A new understanding of the Anthropocene that is based on mutual transformation with nature rather than control over nature.

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The Meaning of Life and the Great Philosophers reveals how great philosophers of the past sought to answer the question of the meaning of life.

The material reprinted in this two-volume set, first published in 1989, covers the first eighty-five years in responses to George Berkeley's writings.

The book offers a definitive study of the development of Kant's conception of the highest good, from his earliest work, to his dying days.