An introduction to modern philosophy in six philosophical problems
By: by Alburey Castell
Publisher: The Macmillan Company
Published: 1943
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 562
Subjects: Filosofie; Philosophie; Modern Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: TOPIC 1. A theological problem. The principles of natural theology from St. Thomas Aquinas; title: The religious wager from Blaise Pascal; title: A skeptical critique of natural theology from David Hume; title: An argument for limited theism from John Stuart Mill; title: The pragmatic approach to natural theology from William James; title: TOPIC 2. A metaphysical problem. Dualism and its implications from René Descartes; title: Materialism and its implications from Thomas Hobbe; title: Idealism and its implications from George Berkeley; title: Voluntarism and its implications from Arthur Schopenhauer; title: The pragmatic approach to metaphysics from William James; title: TOPIC 3. An epistemological problem. The appeal to experience from John Locke; title: Empiricism into skepticism from David Hume; title: Mind and the world order from Immanuel Kant; title: Positivism from Auguste Comte; title: The role of fictions of knowledge from Hans Vaihinger.; title: TOPIC 4. An ethical problem. Morality grounded in theology from William Paley; title: Morality grounded in duty from Immanuel Kant; title: Morality grounded in happiness from John Stuart Mill; title: Morality grounded in power from Friedrich Nietzsche; title: Morality grounded in demands from William James; title: TOPIC 5. A political problem. The divine right of kings from James I; title: The great leviathan from Thomas Hobbes; title: The social compact and the general will from Jean Jacques Rousseau; title: Principles of conservatism from Edmund Burke; title: The case for representative government from John Stuart Mill; title: TOPIC 6. An historical problem. The medieval interpretation of history from George Santayana; title: History as the evolution of a rational social order from Immanuel Kant; title: Idealistic interpretation of history from G.W.F. Hegel; title: The economic interpretation of history from Karl Marx; title: Cultures decline into civilizations from Oswald Spengler.