num_pages: 69
description: The amazing scientist mathematician philosopher milie du Chtelet (1706-49) has widely been hailed as a rare female intellectual in the Enlightenment. At the same time her own ideas and contributions remain largely unknown and her writings are rarely read. This is unfortunate since she has interesting contributions to and explanations of physics metaphysics religion translation the equality of the sexes and ethics. This book is a selection of du Chtelet's philosophical writings in new English translations: -Foreword to Foundations of Physics -On the Principles of Our Knowledge (From Foundations of Physics) -On the Existence of God (From Foundations of Physics) -On Liberty -Translator's Preface to Mandeville's Fable of the Bees -On the Resurrection of the Dead (from Examinations of the Bible) -On Happiness
language: English
title: Reason, Illusion, and Passion: Philosophical Works
publisher: None