1st Edition

British Philosophy and the Age of Enlightenment Routledge History of Philosophy Volume 5

Edited By Stuart Brown Copyright 2003
    440 Pages
    by Routledge

    440 Pages
    by Routledge

    This fifth volume covers many of the most important philosophers and movements of the nineteenth century, including utilitarianism, positivism and pragmatism.

    1. Lord Herbert of Cherbury and the Cambridge Platonists
    2. Science and British philosophy: Boyle and Newton
    3. Locke: knowledge and its limits
    4. Locke's political theory
    5. George Berkeley
    6. David Hume on human understanding
    7. Hume: moral and political philosophy
    8. British moralists of the eighteenth century: Shaftesbury, Butler and Price
    9. The French Enlightenment I: science, materialism and determinism
    10. The French Enlightenment II: deism, morality and politics
    11. The Scottish Enlightenment
    12. The German Aufklärung and British philosophy
    13. Giambattista Vico
    14. Rousseau and Burke

    Biography

    Brown, Stuart