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Investigates the political thought of John Locke, an influential figure in the contemporary debate on the private (vs public). Drawing on analyses of the 1689 works Epistola de Tolerantia (A Letter on Toleration), The Two Treatises of Government, & Essay concerning Human Understanding, common themes in Locke's development of the private are identified, among them, the existence of private property, private property as the individual's human body, & intellectual privacy. While Locke's use of intellectually private applied to the defense of Christian Protestants in their right to practice religion without state intervention, his ideas about tolerance & privacy have modern relevance. J. Sadler

Investigates the political thought of John Locke, an influential figure in the contemporary debate on the private (vs public). Drawing on analyses of the 1689 works Epistola de Tolerantia (A Letter on Toleration), The Two Treatises of Government, & Essay concerning Human Understanding, common themes in Locke's development of the private are identified, among them, the existence of private property, private property as the individual's human body, & intellectual privacy. While Locke's use of intellectually private applied to the defense of Christian Protestants in their right to practice religion without state intervention, his ideas about tolerance & privacy have modern relevance. J. Sadler

Philosophy written in English is overwhelmingly analytic philosophy, and the techniques and predilections of analytic philosophy are not only unhistorical but anti-historical, and hostile to textual commentary. Analytic philosophy usually aspires to a very high degree of clarity and precision of formulation and argument, and it often seeks to be informed by, and consistent with, current natural science. In an earlier era, analytic philosophy aimed at agreement withordinary linguistic intuitions or common sense beliefs, or both. All of these aspects of the subject sit uneasily with the use of historical texts for philosophical illumination. In this book, ten distinguished philosophers explore the tensions between, and the possibilities of reconciling, analyticphilosophy and history of philosophy.Contributors: M. R. Ayers, John Cottingham, Daniel Garber, Gary Hatfield, Anthony Kenny, Steven Nadler, G. A. J. Rogers, Tom Sorell, Catherine Wilson, Yves Charles Zarka.

Introduction : the creation of the canon / G.A.J. Rogers -- Pt. I, Outsiders. Becoming and outsider : Gassendi in the history of philosophy / Margaret J. Osler ; Sir Kenelm Digby, recusant philosopher / John Henry ; Theophilus Gale and historiography of philosophy / Stephen Pigney ; The standing of Ralph Cudworth as a philosopher / Benjamin Carter ; Nicholas Malebranche : insider or outsider? / Andrew Pyle -- Pt. II, Insiders. Descartes. Excusable caricature and philosophical relevance : the case of Descartes / Tom Sorell ; Descartes' reputation / John Cottingham ; The political motivations of Heidegger's anti-Cartesianism / Emmanuel Faye ; Hobbes. Hobbes' reputation in Anglo-American philosophy / Tom Sorell ; A farewell to Leviathan : Foucault and Hobbes on power, sovereignty and war / Luc Foisneau ; Spinoza. Spinoza past and present / Wiep van Bunge ; Benedictus pantheissimus / Steven Nadler ; Locke. The standing and reputation of John Locke / G.A.J. Rogers ; The reputation of Locke's general philosophy in Britain in the twentieth century / Michael Ayers ; Leibniz. Leibniz's reputation : the Fontenelle tradition / Daniel Garber ; Leibniz's reputation in the eighteenth century : Kant and Herder / Catherine Wilson ; The reception of Leibniz's philosophy in the twentieth century / Robert Merrihew Adams.