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" Modern philosophy : "
Richard Francks.
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BL
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659478
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Francks, Richard.
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Modern philosophy : : the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries /\ Richard Francks.
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| Series Statement
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Fundamentals of philosophy
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xvii, 297 pages :: illustrations ;; 23 cm.
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077352682X (pbk.)
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: 9780773526822 (pbk.)
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: 0773526811 (bound)
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: 9780773526815 (bound)
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Includes index.
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Includes bibliographical references: p. 289-291.
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| Contents
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Introduction: How modern is 'modern' philosophy -- pt. 1. René Descartes. Material monism or the great soup of being: Descartes' account of the natural world -- The possibility of atheism: Descartes and God -- The limit of mechanism: the place of human beings in Descartes' world -- Selling the picture: Descartes' story of doubt and discovery -- pt. 2. Baruch Spinoza. God, or nature? Spinoza's pantheism -- The attribute of thought -- Spinoza's ethics: metaphysics and the life of man -- pt. 3. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. The principle of sufficient reason -- The best of all possible worlds -- The world as explicable: Monadology -- Matter, mind and human life: the world as monadic -- pt. 4. John Locke. On living in the world: Locke on the contents of the mind -- Locke on nature (and our knowledge of it) -- The life of man: Locke's political thought -- pt. 5. George Berkeley. Denying the obvious: Berkeley's radical reinterpretationof human experience -- Berkeley's disproof of the existence of matter -- On what there is: Berkeley's virtual reality -- pt. 6. David Hume. Hume's project for a new science: what it is, how it works, and an example -- The failure of the project -- The lessons of Hume: where do we go from here?
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Philosophy, Modern-- 17th century.
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Philosophy, Modern-- 18th century.
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190/.9/032
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B799.F72 2003
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