Modern Philosophy: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

by Francks, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780203501177
• ISBN10: 0203501179
• Copyright: 2003-10-04
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

This introductory text for students gives a thematic survey of the ideas of the major philosophers of the 17th and 18th centuries. Topics include Perception And Ideas, Matter And Motion, Necessity And Freedom, And Minds and persons.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xv
Acknowledgements	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
Material Monism or the Great Soup of Being	p. 11
The Possibility of Atheism	p. 26
The Limits of Mechanism	p. 35
Selling the Picture	p. 43
God, or Nature?	p. 61
The Attribute of Thought	p. 75
Spinoza's Ethics	p. 85
The Principle of Sufficient Reason	p. 101
The Best of All Possible Worlds	p. 113
The World as Explicable	p. 124
Matter, Mind and Human Life	p. 134
On Living in the World	p. 147
Locke on Nature (And Our Knowledge of It)	p. 160
The Life of Man	p. 174
Denying the Obvious	p. 187
Berkeley's Disproof of the Existence of Matter	p. 201
On What There Is	p. 220
Hume's Project for a New Science	p. 235
The Failure of the Project	p. 248
The Lessons of Hume	p. 264
Notes	p. 269
Bibliography	p. 289
Index	p. 293
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