Title: A short history of modern philosophy : from Descartes to Wittgenstein /
Authors: Scruton, Roger; Scruton, Roger.
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 1995
Subjects: Philosophy, Modern.
Contents: Introduction -- History of philosophy and history of ideas -- The rise of modern philosophy -- Part One: Rationalism -- Descartes -- The Cartesian revolution -- Spinoza -- Leibniz -- Part Two: Empiricism -- Locke and Berkeley -- The idea of moral science -- Hume -- Part Three: Kant and idealism -- Kant I: The critique of pure reason -- Kant II: Ethics and aesthetics -- Hegel -- Reactions: Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche -- Part Four: The political transformation -- Political philosophy from Hobbes to Hegel -- Marx -- Utilitarianism and after -- Part Five: Recent philosophy -- Frege -- Phenomenology and existentialism -- Wittgenstein.