Late Modern Philosophy
Subtitle: Essential Readings with Commentary
Contributors: Elizabeth S. Radcliffe (Editor); Richard McCarty (Editor); Fritz Allhoff (Editor); Anand Jayprakash Vaidya (Editor)
Series: Blackwell readings in the history of philosophy, 4
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Ltd; Printer - COS Printers Pte Ltd
Published: January 1, 2007
Place of publication: 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148-5020, USA; printed in Singapore
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9781405146890; 9781405146883
Copyright date: 2007
Subjects: Western philosophy, from c 1900 -; History & Surveys - General; Philosophy; Philosophy, Modern; Philosophy / Modern
Table of contents: label: Acknowledgements; label: General introduction; label: Part I Empiricism; title: Introduction; title: John Locke; title: Essay concerning human understanding / George Berkeley; title: Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous in opposition to sceptics and atheists / David Hume; title: An enquiry concerning human understanding / David Hume; title: A treatise of human nature; label: Part II Critics of empiricism; title: Introduction; title: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz; title: New essays concerning human understanding / Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Samuel Clarke; title: The Leibniz-Clarke correspondence / Thomas Reid; title: An inquiry into the human mind on the principles of common sense; label: Part III Kant's critique of rationalism and empiricism; title: Introduction; title: Immanuel Kant; title: Prolegomena to any future metaphysics; label: Part IV Arguments for the existence of God; title: Introduction; title: Samuel Clarke; title: A demonstration of the being and attributes of God / William Paley; title: Natural theology / David Hume; title: Dialogues concerning natural religion / Immanuel Kant; title: Critique of pure reason; label: Part V Political philosophy; title: Introduction; title: John Locke; title: Second treatise on government / David Hume; title: Of the original contract / Jean-Jacques Rousseau; title: On the social contract; label: Part VI Moral philosophy; title: Introduction; title: Samuel Clarke; title: Discourse concerning the unchangeable obligations of natural religion / David Hume; title: A treatise of human nature / Richard Price; title: A review of the principal questions in morals / Adam Smith; title: The theory of moral sentiments / Immanuel Kant; title: Lectures on ethics / Immanuel Kant; title: Groundwork of the metaphysics of morals / Thomas Reid; title: Essays on the active powers of the human mind / Jeremy Bentham; title: An introduction to the principles of morals and legislation / Mary Wollstonecraft; title: A vindication of the rights of woman; label: Suggestions for Further Reading; label: Index