PHILOSOPHERS OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT
Written by S.C. Brown
Published by Harvester Press
in 1979
ISBN: 0855276053
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PHILOSOPHERS OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT
Written by S.C. Brown.
Stock no. 554728
1st.
1979.
Hardback.
Nearly fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.
A series of eleven lectures. Edited by Brown with an introduction examining the relation of each philosopher to the general climate of ideas in the 18th century. The Royal Institute of Philosophy Lectures Volume 12 1977-78. ISBN: 0855276053. Name in ink to front endpaper else a fine copy.
Front cover
Contents
- Foreword by S.C. Brown
- 1 The Empiricism of Locke and Newton
- 2 Hume, Newton and 'The Hill called Difficulty'
- 3 The 'Principle' of Natural Order: or What the Enlightened Sceptics did not doubt
- 4 Adam Smith: Philosophy, Science and Social Science
- 5 Hume and the Scottish Enlightenment
- 6 Condorcet: Politics and Reason
- 7 Hume as Moralist: a Social Historian's Perspective
- 8 Diderot: Man and Society
- 9 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher of Nature
- 10 Butler's Theory of Moral Judgement
- 11 Kant and the Sincere Fanatic
- Index