History of English thought in the eighteenth century
By: Leslie Stephen ; with a new preface by Crane Brinton
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and World
Published: 1962
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
Copyright date: 1962
Subjects: English Philosophy
Description: Vol. 1 deals with the philosophy, and more particularly the theology, of the Age of Reason, and centers on the responses made by English thinkers to the challenge set by the new sciences to the Christian cosmology. While natural religion is the author's main concern here, he neglects no important intellectual strain in English religious life, all of which are treated fully and respectfully. Vol. 2 deals with moral philosophy, political theories, economic thought, and in a final section under the modest title "Characteristics", with general literature, Methodism and nascent Romanticism.
Notes: Bibliographies in each v. - Index in v.2