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Author: Michael R. Matthews Publisher: Hackett Publishing ISBN: 9780872200746 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 180
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A supplementary text for courses in the history of modern philosophy, helping to link developments in modern science and modern philosophy.
Author: Michael R. Matthews Publisher: Hackett Publishing ISBN: 9780872200746 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 180
Book Description
A supplementary text for courses in the history of modern philosophy, helping to link developments in modern science and modern philosophy.
Author: Mogens Laerke Publisher: OUP USA ISBN: 0199857148 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 374
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This volume collects contributions from leading scholars of early modern philosophy from a wide variety of philosophical and geographic backgrounds. The distinguished contributors offer very different, competing approaches to the history of philosophy.
Author: Tom Sorell Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 9048130778 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 147
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Scientia is the term that early modern philosophers applied to a certain kind of demonstrative knowledge, the kind whose starting points were appropriate first principles. In pre-modern philosophy, too, scientia was the name for demonstrative knowledge from first principles. But pre-modern and early modern conceptions differ systematically from one another. This book offers a variety of glimpses of this difference by exploring the works of individual philosophers as well as philosophical movements and groupings of the period. Some of the figures are transitional, falling neatly on neither side of the allegiances usually marked by the scholastic/modern distinction. Among the philosophers whose views on scientia are surveyed are Hobbes, Descartes, Spinoza, Gassendi, Locke, and Jungius. The contributors are among the best-known and most influential historians of early modern philosophy.
Author: Robert Trundle Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351518526 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 260
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Mass ideology is unique to modern society and rooted in early modern philosophy. Traditionally, knowledge had been viewed as resting on metaphysics. Rejecting metaphysical truth evoked questions about the source of -truth.- For nineteenth-century ideologists, -truth- comes either from dominating classes in a progressively determined history or from a post-Copernican freedom of the superior man to create it. In From Physics to Politics Robert C. Trundle, Jr. uncovers the relation of modern philosophy to political ideology. And in rooting truth in human nature and Nature by modal reasoning, he resolves the problem of politicized truth. Our concepts of scientific truth, logic, and necessity are essentially connected. Modern philosophy restricts our understanding of necessity to the political dreams and aspirations of Enlightenment intellectuals. As a result, these intellectuals refuse to acknowledge as factual or meaningful whatever is not intelligible within the practical goals of establishing science as a system of enlightened ideas. The effect of these ideas is that in our time metaphysical principles, speculative truths, our understanding of science, and the nature of logic have become subordinated to ideological dreams. Fascism, Nazism, Marxism, political correctness, and moral relativism are not historical aberrations but essential consequences. Trundle's work is groundbreaking and daring, and his underlying thesis demonstrates why scientific truth demands a modal defense. The defense not only integrates science, ethics, and politics, but shows how -truth- may be ascribed to moral and scientific principles in contrast to a modern philosophical tradition. Since this tradition is the origin of political ideology, it has led to an irrational politicization of truth. The book will appeal particularly to those interested in political history, histories of philosophy, the philosophy of sciences, and ethics.
Author: Michael R. Matthews
Author: Michael R. Matthews
Author: Michael R. Matthews
Author: Mogens Laerke
Author: Guido De Ruggiero
Author: Arthur Stone Dewing
Author: Tom Sorell
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Author: Arthur Kenyon Rogers
Author: Robert Trundle
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