Paul Henri Thiery

The System of Nature

Volume 1

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1984. Paul Henri Thiery, Baron d'Holbach (1723-1789), was the center of the radical wing of the philosophers, best known for The System of Nature (1770) and deservedly, since it is a clear exposition of his main ideas. This is the first of three volumes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780367244972
• ISBN-10: 0367244977
• Artikelnr.: 62574185

Autorenporträt

Paul Henri Thiery

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Part I: Laws of Nature.
Of man.
The faculties of the soul.
Doctrine of immortality.
On happiness. Chapter 1: Nature and her laws. Chapter 2: Of motion and its origin. Chapter 3: Of matter
of its various combinations
of its diversified motion
or of the course of Nature. Chapter 4: Laws of motion common to every being of Nature
attraction and repulsion
inert force
necessity. Chapter 5: Order and confusion
intelligence
chance. Chapter 6: Moral and physical distinctions of man
his origin. Chapter 7: The soul and the spiritual system. Chapter 8: The intellectual faculties derived from the faculty of feeling. Chapter 9: The diversity of the intellectual faculties; they depend on physical causes, as do their moral qualities.
The natural principles of society
morals
politics. Chapter 10: The soul does not derive its ideas from itself
it has no innate ideas. Chapter 11: Of the system of man's free
agency. Chapter 12: An examination of the opinion which pretends that the system of fatalism is dangerous. Chapter 13: Of the immortality of the soul
of the doctrine of a future state
of the fear of death. Chapter 14: Education, morals, and the laws suffice to restrain man
of the desire of immortality
of suicide.