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Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- General Editor's Preface -- Introduction -- Notes -- References -- 1 Bacon -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Pars destruens: anticipations of nature and the idols of the mind -- 3. Pars construens: Bacon's prescriptions for new natural histories and the inductive natural philosophy -- 4. Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- 2 Gassendi and Hobbes -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Gassendi's attacks on the Aristotelians and on Descartes -- 3. Gassendi's middle way -- 4. Gassendi's two criteria -- 5. Certainty and probability -- 6. Hobbes and scepticism -- 7. Hobbes, perception, and 'the modern philosophy' -- 8. Knowledge and scientific knowledge -- Notes -- References -- 3 Descartes -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Dreaming and the embodied self -- 3. Passivity of mind -- 4. Activation and self-discovery -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4 Spinoza -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Predecessors -- 3. Adequacy, truth, and clarity and distinctness -- 4. Kinds of knowledge -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 5 Malebranche -- 1. Introduction: was Malebranche a rationalist metaphysician? -- 2. Malebranche and Hume -- 3. The axioms of metaphysics -- 4. Malebranche's positive metaphysics 1: God and the soul -- 5. Malebranche's positive metaphysics 2: the world of bodies -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 6 Leibniz -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Leibniz's theory of knowledge: the basics -- 3. Leibniz on substance -- 4. Determinism -- 5. Leibniz's 'rationalist empiricism' -- 6. Representation and anti-materialism -- 7. Knowledge and truth -- 8. Logic and the question of foundationalism -- 9. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 7 Locke -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 3. Locke on principles -- 4. Locke on demonstration -- 5. Locke on the sciences -- Notes -- References -- 8 Hume.

Anthony Kenny's engaging new history of Western philosophy now advances into the modern era. The Rise of Modern Philosophy is the fascinating story of the emergence of the great ideas and worldviews of modern thought. Beautifully illustrated throughout, Kenny's book introduces us to some of the world's most original and influential thinkers, and shows us the way to an understanding of their famous works. - ;Sir Anthony Kenny's engaging new history of Western philosophy now advances into the modern era. The Rise of Modern Philosophy is the fascinating story of the emergence, from the early sixt

Cover; A DARK HISTORY OF MODERN PHILOSOPHY; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preliminary Matters; 1 Fissures in the History of Modern Philosophy; Prelude: On Anteriority; 2 Spinoza's Abysmal Rationalism; Intermezzo: On the Putative History of German Idealism; 3 Unruly Greek Schelling; Coda: Nietz sche as Crux; Bibliography; Index

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

Evil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. For eighteenth-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Today we view evil as a matter of human cruelty, and Auschwitz as its extreme incarnation. Examining our understanding of evil from the Inquisition to contemporary terrorism, Susan Neiman explores who we have become in the three centuries that separate us from the early Enlightenment. In the process, she rewrites the history of modern thought and points philosophy back to the questions that originally animated it. Whether expressed in theological or secular terms, evil poses a problem about the world's intelligibility. It confronts philosophy with fundamental questions: Can there be meaning in a world where innocents suffer? Can belief in divine power or human progress survive a cataloging of evil? Is evil profound or banal? Neiman argues that these questions impelled modern philosophy. Traditional philosophers from Leibniz to Hegel sought to defend the Creator of a world containing evil. Inevitably, their efforts--combined with those of more literary figures like Pope, Voltaire, and the Marquis de Sade--eroded belief in God's benevolence, power, and relevance, until Nietzsche claimed He had been murdered. They also yielded the distinction between natural and moral evil that we now take for granted. Neiman turns to consider philosophy's response to the Holocaust as a final moral evil, concluding that two basic stances run through modern thought. One, from Rousseau to Arendt, insists that morality demands we make evil intelligible. The other, from Voltaire to Adorno, insists that morality demands that we don't. Beautifully written and thoroughly engaging, this book tells the history of modern philosophy as an attempt to come to terms with evil. It reintroduces philosophy to anyone interested in questions of life and death, good and evil, suffering and sense. Featuring a substantial new afterword by Neiman that raises provocative questions about Hannah Arendt's take on Adolf Eichmann and the rationale behind the Hiroshima bombing, this Princeton Classics edition introduces a new generation of readers to this eloquent and thought-provoking meditation on good and evil, life and death, and suffering and sense

Communication in Modern Social Ordering investigates the modern history of communication in relation to the thinking of the political community in the United States. By illustrating the intertwining of the technological developments in communication methods and its community-building effects, the different representations of society and their political implications are examined against the development of communication systems from the telegraph, to the telephone, to computer networks. It was the telegraph that made communication a continual process, thus freeing it from the rhythmical motion o

Intro -- THE GROUNDING OF POSITIVE PHILOSOPHY -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- EDITORIAL APPARATUS AND STANDARD ABBREVIATIONS -- TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION -- THE SINGULARITY OF F.W. J. SCHELLING -- EXPECTATIONS IN BERLIN -- AN EXISTENTIAL SYSTEM OF PHILOSOPHY -- THE GROUNDING OF POSITIVE PHILOSOPHY -- SCHELLING'S NEGATIVE PHILOSOPHY -- EXISTENCE AS THE INVERTED IDEA -- HEGEL CRITIQUED -- ABDUCTION AS THE METHOD OF POSITIVE PHILOSOPHY -- TOWARDS A PHILOSOPHICAL RELIGION -- TRANSLATOR'S NOTE -- THE GROUNDING OF POSITIVE PHILOSOPHY: THE BERLIN LECTURES -- ON PHILOSOPHY -- ON THE ACADEMIC STUDY OF PHILOSOPHY -- METAPHYSICS BEFORE KANT -- KANT,FICHTE, AND A SCIENCE OF REASON -- THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE PHILOSOPHY -- HISTORY OF NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE PHILOSOPHY -- METAPHYSICAL EMPIRICISM -- THE GROUNDING OF POSITIVE PHILOSOPHY -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- W.

This book re-examines important figures from the entire history of philosophy to show how and why philosophy must renew itself as a critical practice dedicated to dialogue with women, people of color, LGBTs, and others who seek liberation from age-old oppressions.