Matter and spirit
Subtitle: the battle of metaphysics in modern Western philosophy before Kant
By: James Lawler.
Series: Rochester studies in philosophy,; 13
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 574
Subjects: Metaphysics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Hobbes on morality and the modern science of motion; title: Freedom as the realization of desire; title: Leviathan : the making of a mortal God; title: John Locke : underlaborer of the new sciences; title: Locke on the freedom of the human spirit; title: From Berkeley to Hume : the radicalization of empiricism; title: Humes science of the dynamics of the passions; title: Adam Smith deciphers the invisible hand of the market; title: Contradictions of economic life; title: I think : Descartes foundation of modern science; title: God and the good society; title: Leibniz's discovery of universal freedom; title: The best of all possible worlds; title: Justifying God's ways : Kants progress from Leibniz through Pope to Rousseau; title: Rousseaus reasoning of the heart.