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Early modern philosophers looked for inspiration to the later ancient thinkers when they rebelled against the dominant Platonic and Aristotelian traditions. The impact of the Hellenistic philosophers on such philosophers as Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza, and Locke was profound and is ripe for reassessment

Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy presents a selection of the best current work in the history of early modern philosophy. It focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries--the extraordinary period of intellectual flourishing that begins, very roughly, with Descartes and his contemporaries and ends with Kant.

The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Philosophy is a comprehensive introduction to the central topics and changing shape of philosophical inquiry in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It explores one of the most innovative periods in the history of Western philosophy, extending from Montaigne, Bacon and Descartes through Hume and Kant. During this period, philosophers initiated and responded to major intellectual developments in natural science, religion, and politics, transforming in the process concepts and doctrines inherited from ancient and medieval philosophy. In this Companion, leading specialists examine early modern treatments of the methodological and conceptual foundations of natural science, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, logic and language, moral and political philosophy, and theology. A final chapter looks forward to the philosophy of the Enlightenment. This will be an invaluable guide for all who are interested in the philosophical thought of the early modern period.

On the History of Modern Philosophy is a key transitional text in the history of European philosophy. In it, F. W. J. Schelling surveys philosophy from Descartes to German Idealism and shows why the Idealist project is ultimately doomed to failure. The lectures trace the path of philosophy from Descartes through Spinoza, Leibniz, Kant, Fichte, Jacobi, to Hegel and Schelling's own work. The extensive critiques of Hegel prefigure many of the arguments to be found in Feuerbach, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Derrida. This is the first English translation of On the History of Modern Philosophy. In his introduction Andrew Bowie sets the work in the context of Schelling's career and clarifies its philosophical issues. The translation will be of special interest to philosophers, intellectual historians, literary theorists, and theologians

This work presents a selection of the best current work in the history of early modern philosophy. It focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - the extraordinary period of intellectual flourishing that begins, very roughly, with Descartes and his contemporaries and ends with Kant.

Kant's views about mathematics were controversial in his own time, and they have inspired or infuriated thinkers ever since. Though specific Kantian doctrines fell into disrepute earlier in this century, the past twenty-five years have seen a surge of interest in and respect for Kant's philosophy of mathematics among both Kant scholars and philosophers of mathematics. The present volume includes the classic papers from the 1960s and 1970s which spared this renaissance of interest, together with updated postscripts by their authors. It also includes the most important recent work on Kant's philosophy of mathematics. The essays bring to bear a wealth of detailed Kantian scholarship, together with powerful new interpretative tools drawn from modern mathematics, logic and philosophy. The cumulative effect of this collection upon the reader will be a deeper understanding of the centrality of mathematics in all aspects of Kant's thought and a renewed respect for the power of Kant's thinking about mathematics. The essays contained in this volume will set the agenda for further work on Kant's philosophy of mathematics for some time to come

Title Page -- Copyright Page -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE LOGIC -- Truth -- Reason (Vernunft) and Intellect (Verstand) (Enc A 1-3) -- Aristotle on Thought -- The Identity 0/ Thought and Being -- Onto-theo-logy -- Hegel's Logic and Its Role in His Philosophy of Right -- Comprehension -- Deduction -- Self-Determination -- Concept-judgrnent-Syllogism -- Finitude and Infinity -- Sollen -- Hegel's Pantheism -- From Substance to Subject -- The Logic of the Grundlinien -- Plan and Procedure -- CHAPTER TWO SPIRIT -- The Context of Right (GrI1-2 and 4) -- Spirit (Enc A 299-399) -- Schema of the Encyclopedia -- The Abstract Concept of Spirit (Enc A 299-305) -- A Few Remarks (Enc A 302R and 305R) -- Philosophy of Spirit (Enc A 305-307)²³ -- Phenomenology and Philosophy of Spirit (Enc A 329-362) -- Consciousness (Enc A 329-334) -- How CDnsciDusness Becomes Rational (Enc A 335-363) -- Interpretation ojEnc A 345-362 -- Spirit (Enc A 363) -- Logic -- Philosophy oISpirit -- The Concept oISpirit (Enc A 363-366) -- The Identity of Intelligence and Will (Enc A 366-388) -- CHAPTER THREE FROM FREE WILL TO RIGHT -- The Subject Matter of the Philosophy of Right ( 1-2) -- Natural and Positive Right ( 3) -- Spirit-Wilt-Right ( 4) -- 186 CHAPTER THREEThe Deduction of Right in Grl 1-33 and Enc A 388-401 -- The Will as Practical Reason (Enc A 386-387) -- The Deduction in Grl 1-32 -- The Concept of Freedom (Grl 5-7) -- From Concept to Idea (Grl 10-28) -- The Immediate Will (GrI 10-1 3) -- Choice (Wille and Willkur -- GrJ 14-20) -- Is the Natural Will Evil? (Crl 18) -- Summary (Crl 21R) -- Free Will (Grl 21-24) -- Resume (Crl 5-30) -- Method (Grl 31-32) -- Division (Gd 33) -- CHAPTER FOUR PERSON AND PROPERTY -- Immediate Right ( 34-39) -- Sollen ( 36) -- The Differentiation of Immediate Right ( 40)

The outstanding features of this book are that it directly confronts the challenge posed by G.E.M. Anscombe in Modern Moral Philosophy of how moral philosophy can be done, it makes a significant contribution to the debate on virtue theory and anti-theory in ethics, and it shows the relevance of such theoretical discussion by grounding it in, and applying it to, contemporary moral issues such as abortion, suicide, and the moral status of animals. No other book currently available covers this ground. The book is aimed primarily at upper-level undergraduates, graduate students and faculty in philosophy, but it should be accessible to anyone with an interest in practical ethics or the philosophy of Wittgenstein