Jonathan Bennett engages with the thought of six great thinkers of the early modern period: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume. While not neglecting the historical setting of each, his chief focus is on the words they wrote. What problem is being tackled? How exactly is the solution meant to work? Does it succeed? If not, why not? What can be learned from its success or failure? For newcomers to the early modern scene, this clearly written work is an excellent introduction to it. Those already in the know can learn how to argue with the great philosophers of the past, treating them as colleagues, antagonists, students, teachers. In this first volume, Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz receive particular attention.
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`Review from previous edition Bennett ... tackles each philosopher head-on, aiming to expound his doctrines and arguments to contemporary readers, to evaluate them, and to make living works of them ... I am convinced that this is the best way to read the philosophers of the past ... I cannot report on all the riches of these two absolutely admirable volumes, written in a clear style and giving sense to the phrase search for truth.' Pascal Engel, Revue Philosophique
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Jonathan Bennett was formerly at the Universities of Cambridge and British Columbia, and at Syracuse University, New York.
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This book is an exercise in the collegial approach to early modern philosophy, in which one studies the texts in the spirit of a colleague, an antagonist, a student, a teacher-aiming to learn as much philosophy as one can from studying them. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
causal resources principle, thoughtful teleology, monadic metaphysic, explanatory rationalism, trope transfer, monadic truths, indivisibility argument, transeunt causation, explanatory rationalist, physical interlude, one extended substance, monadic propositions, separability argument, dominant monad, monist metaphysic, insensible perceptions, monadic ones, monadic level, qualitative variety, extended nothing, immanent causation, container space, separator space, basic metaphysic, stability project Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lincoln Memorial, Margaret Wilson, New Essays, New Zealand, Julius Caesar, George Eliot, Second Meditation, Bernard Williams, Della Rocca, Third Meditation, America's Cup, Catherine Wilson, Des Bosses, Descartes's God, Perhaps Leibniz, Principles of Philosophy, Second Replies, Fifth Meditation, First Meditation, Mary Ann Evans, Perhaps Descartes, Semantic Thesis, Sixth Meditation, First Base New!
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This book is an exercise in the collegial approach to early modern philosophy, in which one studies the texts in the spirit of a colleague, an antagonist, a student, a teacher-aiming to learn as much philosophy as one can from studying them. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
causal resources principle, thoughtful teleology, monadic metaphysic, explanatory rationalism, trope transfer, monadic truths, indivisibility argument, transeunt causation, explanatory rationalist, physical interlude, one extended substance, monadic propositions, separability argument, dominant monad, monist metaphysic, insensible perceptions, monadic ones, monadic level, qualitative variety, extended nothing, immanent causation, container space, separator space, basic metaphysic, stability project Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lincoln Memorial, Margaret Wilson, New Essays, New Zealand, Julius Caesar, George Eliot, Second Meditation, Bernard Williams, Della Rocca, Third Meditation, America's Cup, Catherine Wilson, Des Bosses, Descartes's God, Perhaps Leibniz, Principles of Philosophy, Second Replies, Fifth Meditation, First Meditation, Mary Ann Evans, Perhaps Descartes, Semantic Thesis, Sixth Meditation, First Base New!
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- The Principles Of Philosophy by Rene Descartes on 10 pages
- Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays by Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz on 5 pages
- A Discourse on the Method (Oxford World's Classics) by Renï¿1/2 Descartes on 5 pages
- On The Soul by Aristotle on page 91, page 92, and Back Matter
- Rules for the Direction of the Mind by Rene Descartes in Front Matter, page 205, and Back Matter
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- The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Philosophy (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) by Donald Rutherford in Back Matter
- The Architecture of Matter: Galileo to Kant by Thomas Holden on page 184
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