Locke and Cartesian Philosophy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Locke and Cartesian Philosophy write by Philippe Hamou. This book was released on 2018-06-13. Locke and Cartesian Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume presents twelve original essays, by an international team of scholars, on the relation of John Locke's thought to Descartes and to Cartesian philosophers such as Malebranche, Clauberg, and the Port-Royal authors. The essays, preceded by a substantial introduction, cover a large variety of topics from natural philosophy to religion, philosophy of mind and body, metaphysics and epistemology. The volume shows that in Locke's complex relationship to Descartes and Cartesianism, stark opposition and subtle 'family resemblances' are tightly intertwined. Since the turn of the twentieth century, the theory of knowledge has been the main comparative focus. According to an influential historiographical conception, Descartes and Locke form together the spearhead in the 'epistemological turn' of early modern philosophy. In bringing together the contributions to this volume, the editors advocate for a shift of emphasis. A full comparison of Locke's and Descartes's positions should cover not only their theories of knowledge, but also their views on natural philosophy, metaphysics, and religion. Their conflicting claims on issues such as cosmic organization, the qualities and nature of bodies, the substance of the soul, and God's government of the world, are of interest not only in their own right, to take the full measure of Locke's complex relation to Descartes, but also as they allow a better understanding of the continuing epistemological debate between the philosophical heirs of these thinkers.
Locke's Touchy Subjects
Locke's Touchy Subjects - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Locke's Touchy Subjects write by Nicholas Jolley. This book was released on 2015. Locke's Touchy Subjects available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nicholas Jolley shows that the mind-body problem and the nature of personal immortality are more central to Locke's philosophy than has been realized. He argues that Locke takes up unorthodox positions in both cases, and holds that Locke's criticisms of Descartes were controversial responses to challenging metaphysical and theological issues.
Locke and Leibniz on Substance
Locke and Leibniz on Substance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Locke and Leibniz on Substance write by Paul Lodge. This book was released on 2015-02-11. Locke and Leibniz on Substance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Locke and Leibniz on Substance gathers together papers by an international group of academic experts, examining the metaphysical concept of substance in the writings of these two towering philosophers of the early modern period. Each of these newly-commissioned essays considers important interpretative issues concerning the role that the notion of substance plays in the work of Locke and Leibniz, and its intersection with other key issues, such as personal identity. Contributors also consider the relationship between the two philosophers and contemporaries such as Descartes and Hume.
Locke's Philosophy
Locke's Philosophy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Locke's Philosophy write by Graham Alan John Rogers. This book was released on 1996. Locke's Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume of essays by a distinguished international group of scholars looks both at core areas of John Locke's philosophy and political theory and at areas not usually discussed--the links between his philosophy and his religious and political thought, the effects and implications of Locke's works in the world at the time, and the manifestations of those effects in the present day. Drawing on material not available until recently, the book is the first original collection of Locke scholarship in some years.
The Science of Modern Virtue
The Science of Modern Virtue - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Science of Modern Virtue write by Peter Lawler. This book was released on 2013-11-01. The Science of Modern Virtue available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Science of Modern Virtue examines the influence that the philosopher Rene Descartes, the political theorist John Locke, and the biologist Charles Darwin have had on our modern understanding of human beings and human virtue. Written by leading thinkers from a variety of fields, the volume is a study of the complex relation between modern science and modern virtue, between a kind of modern thought and a kind of modern action. Offering more than a series of substantive introductions to Descartes', Locke's, and Darwin's accounts of who we are and the kind of virtue to which we can aspire, the book invites readers to think about the ways in which the writings of these seminal thinkers shaped the democratic and technological world in which modern human beings live. Thirteen scholars in this volume learnedly explore questions drawn from the diverse disciplines of political science, philosophy, theology, biology, and metaphysics. Let the reader be warned: The authors of these essays are anything but consensual in their analysis. Considered together, the chapters in this volume carry on a lively internal debate that mirrors theoretical modernity's ongoing discussion about the true nature of human beings and the science of virtue. Some authors powerfully argue that Locke's and Darwin's thought is amenable to the claims made about human beings and human virtue by classical philosophers such as Aristotle and classical Christian theologians such as Thomas Aquinas. Others make the opposite case, drawing attention to the ways in which Descartes, Locke, and Darwin knowingly and dialectically depart from central teachings of both classical philosophy and classical Christian theology.
