James Lawler

Matter and Spirit (eBook, PDF)

The Battle of Metaphysics in Modern Western Philosophy before Kant

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Produktbeschreibung

This narrative shows how the contours of moral and political philosophy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were shaped by Kant's two distinct philosophical responses to the results of modern science.

This history of early modern Western philosophy takes its inspiration from Kant's claim that the battle between the metaphysics of matter and that of spirit is the principal axis around which modern philosophy up to his time, in all its aspects, has revolved. The empiricist-materialist trend that dominates in England is first examined in the progressively unfolding works of Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Adam Smith. A contrasting and competing dialectic develops in the rationalist/spiritualist trend in the continental philosophy of Descartes, Leibniz, and Rousseau. Framing this history is the background context of the philosophy and science of Aristotle and the challenges to the traditional paradigm presented by the revolutionary sciences of Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton.

James Lawler is Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 584
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781580466639
• Artikelnr.: 63929188

Autorenporträt

James Lawler

Inhaltsangabe

Hobbes on Morality and the Modern Science of Motion Freedom as the
Realization of Desire Leviathan: The Making of a Mortal God John Locke:
Underlaborer of the New Sciences Locke on the Freedom of the Human
Spirit From Berkeley to Hume: the Radicalization of Empiricism Hume's
Science of the Dynamics of the Passions Adam Smith Deciphers the Invisible
Hand of the Market Contradictions of Economic Life I Think: Descartes'
Foundation of Modern Science God and the Good Society Leibniz's Discovery
of Universal Freedom The Best of All Possible Worlds Justifying God's Ways:
Kant's Progress from Leibniz through Pope to Rousseau Rousseau's Reasoning
of the Heart