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Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, c 1600 to c 1800

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Hardcover): David Hume Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Hardcover)
David Hume
R532 Discovery Miles 5 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Complete Works of Voltaire 37 - Questions sur l'Encyclopedie, par des amateurs (I): Introduction (French, Hardcover,... Complete Works of Voltaire 37 - Questions sur l'Encyclopedie, par des amateurs (I): Introduction (French, Hardcover, Critical edition)
Christiane Mervaud; Voltaire
R4,839 Discovery Miles 48 390 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The general introduction to Voltaire's "Questions sur l'Encyclopedie, par des amateurs" traces the history of its genesis and publication, its contemporary critical reception and the historical and literary questions raised by the text. The volume also comprises several appendices and a thematic index of the text as a whole. Collaborateurs: Christiane Mervaud, Nicholas Cronk, Dominique Lussier.

The Critique of Pure Reason (Paperback): Immanuel Kant The Critique of Pure Reason (Paperback)
Immanuel Kant
R327 Discovery Miles 3 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Sources of Secularism - Enlightenment and Beyond (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Anna Tomaszewska, Hasse Hamalainen The Sources of Secularism - Enlightenment and Beyond (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Anna Tomaszewska, Hasse Hamalainen
R4,657 Discovery Miles 46 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines the importance of the Enlightenment for understanding the secular outlook of contemporary Western societies. It shows the new ways of thinking about religion that emerged during the 17th and 18th centuries and have had a great impact on how we address problems related to religion in the public sphere today. Based on the assumption that political concepts are rooted in historical realities, this collection combines the perspective of political philosophy with the perspective of the history of ideas. Does secularism imply that individuals are not free to manifest their beliefs in public? Is secularization the same as rejecting faith in the absolute? Can there be a universal rational core in every religion? Does freedom of expression always go hand in hand with freedom of conscience? Is secularism an invention of the predominantly Christian West, which cannot be applied in other contexts, specifically that of Muslim cultures? Answers to these and related questions are sought not only in current theories and debates in political philosophy, but also in the writings of Immanuel Kant, Benedict Spinoza, Thomas Hobbes, Anthony Collins, Adriaan Koerbagh, Abbe Claude Yvon, Giovanni Paolo Marana, and others.

Complete Works of Voltaire 140A-B - Corpus des notes marginales de Voltaire 5A-B: La Barre-Muyart de Vouglans (French,... Complete Works of Voltaire 140A-B - Corpus des notes marginales de Voltaire 5A-B: La Barre-Muyart de Vouglans (French, Hardcover)
Natalia Elaguina, et al; Voltaire
R5,305 Discovery Miles 53 050 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The fifth volume of the "Corpus des notes marginales", long since out of print, was first published by Akademie-Verlag in Berlin, East Germany, in 1994. It was reissued in the OEuvres completes de Voltaire Oxford edition, where the remaining volumes of the 'Corpus' (unfinished since 1994) began to be published in 2006. This volume has been made easier to use in the reissue by the addition of running heads and by a new index of Voltaire's works cited in the notes of the present volume and the four that preceded it. This volume contains an additional piece by Nikolai Kopanev, 'V. S. Lublinski et le Corpus des notes marginales'.

The Critique of Judgement - Immanuel Kant (Paperback): J.H. Bernard The Critique of Judgement - Immanuel Kant (Paperback)
J.H. Bernard; Introduction by J.H. Bernard; J.H. Bernard
R379 Discovery Miles 3 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Critique of Practical Reason (Hardcover): Immanuel Kant The Critique of Practical Reason (Hardcover)
Immanuel Kant
R569 Discovery Miles 5 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Second Treatise of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration (Paperback): John Locke Second Treatise of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration (Paperback)
John Locke; Edited by Mark Goldie
R332 R269 Discovery Miles 2 690 Save R63 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'Man being born...to perfect freedom...hath by nature a power...to preserve his property, that is, his life, liberty and estate.' Locke's Second Treatise of Government (1689) is one of the great classics of political philosophy, widely regarded as the foundational text of modern liberalism. In it Locke insists on majority rule, and regards no government as legitimate unless it has the consent of the people. He sets aside people's ethnicities, religions, and cultures and envisages political societies which command our assent because they meet our elemental needs simply as humans. His work helped to entrench ideas of a social contract, human rights, and protection of property as the guiding principles for just actions and just societies. Published in the same year, A Letter Concerning Toleration aimed to end Christianity's wars of religion and called for the separation of church and state so that everyone could enjoy freedom of conscience. In this edition of these two major works, Mark Goldie considers the contested nature of Locke's reputation, which is often appropriated by opposing political and religious ideologies. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals (Hardcover): Immanuel Kant Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals (Hardcover)
Immanuel Kant
R556 Discovery Miles 5 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Critique of Judgement (Hardcover): Immanuel Kant The Critique of Judgement (Hardcover)
Immanuel Kant
R575 Discovery Miles 5 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Critique Of Pure Reason (Paperback): J.M.D. Meiklejohn The Critique Of Pure Reason (Paperback)
J.M.D. Meiklejohn; Immanuel Kant
R715 Discovery Miles 7 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Imagination in German Idealism and Romanticism (Hardcover): Gerad Gentry, Konstantin Pollok The Imagination in German Idealism and Romanticism (Hardcover)
Gerad Gentry, Konstantin Pollok
R2,458 Discovery Miles 24 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

For philosophers of German idealism and early German romanticism, the imagination is central to issues ranging from hermeneutics to transcendental logic and from ethics to aesthetics. This volume of new essays brings together, for the first time, comprehensive and critical reflections on the significances of the imagination during this period, with essays on Kant and the imagination, the imagination in post-Kantian German idealism, and the imagination in early German romanticism. The essays explore the many and varied uses of the imagination and discuss whether they form a coherent or shared notion or whether they embody points of philosophical divergence within these traditions. They shed new light on one of the most important and enigmatic aspects of human nature, as understood in the context of a profoundly influential era of western thought.

The Doctrine of Being in Hegel's Science of Logic - A Critical Commentary (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Mehmet Tabak The Doctrine of Being in Hegel's Science of Logic - A Critical Commentary (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Mehmet Tabak
R3,382 Discovery Miles 33 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book provides an accessible and thorough analysis of "The Doctrine of Being," the first part of Hegel's Science of Logic. Though it received much scholarly attention in the past, interpreters of this text have generally refrained from examining it in a sufficiently detailed manner. Through a rigorous and critical reading of Hegel's speculative arguments, Mehmet Tabak illustrates that Hegel meant his logic to be both a presuppositionless analysis and development of the basic categories of thought, on the one hand, and a post-Kantian ontology on the other. However, the analysis of the text demonstrates that Hegel fails to deliver such logic. This volume promises to be an indispensable guide to those who wish to understand the first book of Science of Logic.

The Critique Of Pure Reason (Paperback): Immanuel Kant The Critique Of Pure Reason (Paperback)
Immanuel Kant
R748 Discovery Miles 7 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Experience and Empiricism - Hegel, Hume, and the Early Deleuze (Paperback): Russell Ford Experience and Empiricism - Hegel, Hume, and the Early Deleuze (Paperback)
Russell Ford
R1,073 Discovery Miles 10 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A clarifying examination of Gilles Deleuze's first book shows how he would later transform the problem of immanence into the problem of difference Despite the wide reception Gilles Deleuze has received across the humanities, research on his early work has remained scant. Experience and Empiricism remedies that gap with a detailed study of Deleuze's first book, Empiricism and Subjectivity, which is devoted to the philosophical project of David Hume. Russell Ford argues that this work is poorly understood when read simply as a standalone study on Hume. Its significance only becomes apparent within the context of a larger problematic that dominated, and continues to inform, modern European philosophy: the conceptual constitution of a purely immanent account of existence. While the importance of this debate is recognized in contemporary scholarship, its genealogy-including Deleuze's place within it-has been underappreciated. This book shows how Deleuze directly engages in an ongoing debate between his teachers Jean Wahl and Jean Hyppolite over experience and empiricism, an intervention that restages the famous encounter between rationalism and empiricism that yielded Kant's critical philosophy. What, Deleuze effectively asks, might have happened had Hume been the one roused from his empirical dogmatic slumber by the rationalist challenge of Kant?

The Critique of Pure Reason (Paperback): Immanuel Kant The Critique of Pure Reason (Paperback)
Immanuel Kant
R323 Discovery Miles 3 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Paperback): David Hume An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Paperback)
David Hume
R263 Discovery Miles 2 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Messiah Enigma (Paperback): Iranse Eledumare Messiah Enigma (Paperback)
Iranse Eledumare
R647 Discovery Miles 6 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Autonomy, Moral Worth, and Right - Kant on Obligatory Ends, Respect for Law, and Original Acquisition (Hardcover): Jeffrey... Autonomy, Moral Worth, and Right - Kant on Obligatory Ends, Respect for Law, and Original Acquisition (Hardcover)
Jeffrey Edwards
R4,816 Discovery Miles 48 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines the surprising ramifications of Kant's late account of practical reason's obligatory ends as well as a revolutionary implication of his theory of property. It thereby sheds new light on Kant's place in the history of modern moral philosophy.

Kant and Social Policies (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Andrea Faggion, Alessandro Pinzani, Nuria Sanchez Madrid Kant and Social Policies (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Andrea Faggion, Alessandro Pinzani, Nuria Sanchez Madrid
R3,278 Discovery Miles 32 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book discusses the potential for Kant's political and juridical philosophy to shed light on current social challenges and policy. By considering Kant as a contemporary and not above moral responsibility, the authors explore his political theory as the philosophical foundation of human rights, discussing the right to citizenship, social dynamics and the scope of global justice. Focusing on topics such as society, Kant's position on human rights, domestic economic justice, public education and moral virtue, the authors analyse the shortcomings of Kant's modes of thought and help the reader to gain new perspective both on this classical thinker and on more contemporary issues.

The Critique of Pure Reason (Paperback): Immanuel Kant The Critique of Pure Reason (Paperback)
Immanuel Kant
R730 Discovery Miles 7 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
David Hume's Humanity - The Philosophy of Common Life and Its Limits (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016): S. Yenor David Hume's Humanity - The Philosophy of Common Life and Its Limits (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
S. Yenor
R1,699 Discovery Miles 16 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Scott Yenor argues that David Hume's reputation as a skeptic is greatly exaggerated and that Hume's skepticism is a moment leading Hume to defend common life philosophy and the humane commercial republic. Gentle, humane virtues reflect the proper reaction to the complex mixture of human faculties that define the human condition.

Modal Epistemology After Rationalism (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Bob Fischer, Felipe Leon Modal Epistemology After Rationalism (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Bob Fischer, Felipe Leon
R4,277 Discovery Miles 42 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This collection highlights the new trend away from rationalism and toward empiricism in the epistemology of modality. Accordingly, the book represents a wide range of positions on the empirical sources of modal knowledge. Readers will find an introduction that surveys the field and provides a brief overview of the work, which progresses from empirically-sensitive rationalist accounts to fully empiricist accounts of modal knowledge. Early chapters focus on challenges to rationalist theories, essence-based approaches to modal knowledge, and the prospects for naturalizing modal epistemology. The middle chapters present positive accounts that reject rationalism, but which stop short of advocating exclusive appeal to empirical sources of modal knowledge. The final chapters mark a transition toward exclusive reliance on empirical sources of modal knowledge. They explore ways of making similarity-based, analogical, inductive, and abductive arguments for modal claims based on empirical information. Modal epistemology is coming into its own as a field, and this book has the potential to anchor a new research agenda.

David Hume, Sceptic (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016): Zuzana Parusnikova David Hume, Sceptic (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
Zuzana Parusnikova
R1,901 Discovery Miles 19 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book studies Hume's scepticism and its roots, context, and role in the philosopher's life. It relates how Hume wrote his philosophy in a time of tumult, as the millennia-old metaphysical tradition that placed humans and their cognitive abilities in an ontological framework collapsed and gave way to one that placed the autonomy of the individual in its center. It then discusses the birth of modernity that Descartes inaugurated and Kant completed with his Copernican revolution that moved philosophy from Being to the Self. It shows how modernity gave rise to a new kind of scepticism, involving doubt not just about the adequacy of our knowledge but about the very existence of a world independent of the self. The book then examines how Hume faced the sceptical implications and how his empiricism added yet another sceptical theme with the main question being how argument can legitimize key concepts of human understanding instinctively used in making sense of our perceptions. Placing it firmly in a historical context, the book shows how Hume was influenced by Pyrrhonian scepticism and how this becomes clear in Hume's acceptance of the weakness of reason and in his emphasis on the practical role of philosophy. As the book argues, rather than serving as the foundation of science, in Hume's hand, philosophy became a guide to a joyful, happy life, to a documentary of common life and to moderately educated, entertaining conversation. This way Hume stands in strong opposition to the (early) modern mainstream.

The Dream of Enlightenment - The Rise of Modern Philosophy (Paperback): Anthony Gottlieb The Dream of Enlightenment - The Rise of Modern Philosophy (Paperback)
Anthony Gottlieb
R627 R543 Discovery Miles 5 430 Save R84 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Western philosophy is now two and a half millennia old, but much of it came in just two staccato bursts, each lasting only about 150 years. In his landmark survey of Western philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance, The Dream of Reason, Anthony Gottlieb documented the first burst, which came in the Athens of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Now, in his sequel, The Dream of Enlightenment, Gottlieb expertly navigates a second great explosion of thought, taking us to northern Europe in the wake of its wars of religion and the rise of Galilean science. In a relatively short period-from the early 1640s to the eve of the French Revolution-Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, and Hume all made their mark. The Dream of Enlightenment tells their story and that of the birth of modern philosophy. As Gottlieb explains, all these men were amateurs: none had much to do with any university. They tried to fathom the implications of the new science and of religious upheaval, which led them to question traditional teachings and attitudes. What does the advance of science entail for our understanding of ourselves and for our ideas of God? How should a government deal with religious diversity-and what, actually, is government for? Such questions remain our questions, which is why Descartes, Hobbes, and the others are still pondered today. Yet it is because we still want to hear them that we can easily get these philosophers wrong. It is tempting to think they speak our language and live in our world; but to understand them properly, we must step back into their shoes. Gottlieb puts readers in the minds of these frequently misinterpreted figures, elucidating the history of their times and the development of scientific ideas while engagingly explaining their arguments and assessing their legacy in lively prose. With chapters focusing on Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Pierre Bayle, Leibniz, Hume, Rousseau, and Voltaire-and many walk-on parts-The Dream of Enlightenment creates a sweeping account of what the Enlightenment amounted to, and why we are still in its debt.

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