2nd Edition
From Physics to Politics The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Philosophy
By Robert Trundle
Copyright 1999
232 Pages
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Routledge
190 Pages
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Routledge
190 Pages
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Routledge
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Mass ideology is unique to modern society and rooted in early modern philosophy. Traditionally, knowledge had been viewed as resting on metaphysics. Rejecting metaphysical truth evoked questions about the source of "truth." For nineteenth-century ideologists, "truth" comes either from dominating classes in a progressively determined history or from a post-Copernican freedom of the superior man to... Read more
1: Introduction: The Enlightenment’s Paradigm Physics; 2: Physics and a Metaphysical Rationalism; 3: An Empiricist Metaphysics of Skepticism; 4: Kantian Shift: From an Ideal of Physics to Politics; 5: Political Answers to ‘Whence comes Truth?’; 6: Truth From Nature: Getting it Right; 7: Afterword: Reasoning to Nature’s God Stubbornly Resisted
Biography
Robert Trundle
