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Cambridge University Press Robert Boyle and the Limits of Reason
Book SynopsisThis study of Boyle's epistemology reveals the theological context within which he developed his views on reason's limits. It also details how Boyle's three specific categories of things which transcend reason - the incomprehensible, the inexplicable, and the unsociable - affected his conception of what a natural philosopher could hope to know.Table of ContentsIntroduction, Robert Boyle as lay theologian; Part I: 1. Things above reason; 2. The threat of Socinianism; 3. Predestination; 4. Theology and the limits of reason; Part II: 5. Philosophies of nature and their theological implications; 6. Sources of knowledge; 7. The limits of reason and knowledge of nature; 8. Boyle's voluntarism and the limits of reason; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Maimonides
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Humes Treatise
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Kant and Modern
Book SynopsisThe philosophy of Kant is the watershed moment of modern thought, irrevocably changing the landscape of the field and preparing the way for all the significant philosophical movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This 2006 volume provides the broadest and deepest introduction currently available on Kant and modern philosophy.Trade Review"For its comprehensiveness and quality, this volume should find a place in the library of every historian." --Scott Stapleford, University of Witwatersrand: Philosophy in ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: the starry heavens and the moral law Paul Guyer; 1. 'A priori' Philip Kitcher; 2. Kant on the perception of space (and time) Gary Hatfield; 3. Kant's philosophy of mathematics Lisa Shabel; 4. Kant on a priori concepts: the metaphysical deduction of the categories Beatrice Longuenesse; 5. Kant's philosophy of cognitive mind Patricia Kitcher; 6. Kant's proofs of substance and causation Arthur Melnick; 7. Kant and transcendental arguments Ralph C. S. Walker; 8. The critique of metaphysics: the structure and fate of Kant's dialectic Karl Ameriks; 9. Philosophy of natural science Michael Friedman; 10. The supreme principle of morality Allen W. Wood; 11. Kant on freedom of the will Henry E. Allison; 12. Mine and thine? The Kantian state Robert B. Pippin; 13. Kant on sex and marriage right Jane Kneller; 14. Kant's theory of peace Pauline Kleingeld; 15. Kant's conception of virtue Lara Denis; 16. Kant's ambitions in the third Critique Paul Guyer; 17. Moral faith and the highest food Frederick C. Beiser; 18. Kant's critical philosophy and its reception - the first five years (1781–6) Manfred Kuehn.
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Cambridge University Press The Two Gods of Leviathan
Book SynopsisIn this provocative new study, Professor Martinich shows that religious concerns pervade Leviathan and indicates how, for Hobbes, Christian doctrine is not politically destabilising and is consistent with modern science.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments; A note on references; Introduction; Part I. The Religious Background to Hobbes's Philosophy: 1. Considerations upon the reputation and religion of Mr. Hobbes; 2. Religion; Part II. Law, Morality, and God: 3. Power, obligation, and justice; 4. Law; 5. The history and idea of covenants; 6. Sovereign-making covenants; Part III. Religion Within the Limits of Science and Politics: 7. God; 8. Revelation, prophets, and miracles; 9. Angels and eschatology; 10. The Church; 11. Scripture; Conclusion; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Goethe contra Newton
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Cambridge University Press Theoretical Philosophy 17551770
Book SynopsisThis is the first volume of the first ever comprehensive edition of the works of Immanuel Kant in English translation. The eleven essays in this volume constitute Kant's theoretical, pre-critical philosophical writings from 1755 to 1770. Several of these pieces have never been translated into English before; others have long been unavailable in English. We can trace in these works the development of Kant's thought to the eventual emergence in 1770 of the two chief tenets of his mature philosophy: the subjectivity of space and time, and the phenomena-noumena distinction. The volume has been furnished with substantial editorial apparatus, including a general introduction to the main themes of Kant's early thought, introduction to the individual works and rÃsumÃs of their contents, linguistic and factual notes, bibliographies, a glossary of key terms, and biographical-bibliographical sketches of persons mentioned by Kant.Trade Review'This volume is a sumptuous feast of scholarly riches and aesthetic delights … Walford achieves remarkable fidelity to the sense of the original text as he adroitly brings Kant's complex conjunction of concepts, dry wit, and 'voice' into clear, readable English. Readers familiar with Kant in the original will also enjoy Walford's consistently clever and stylistically polished solutions to the frequently knotty problems of translating Kant's academic German. And scholars who have puzzled over the meaning of particular words or phrases will find Walford's extensive notes richly instructive. Simply in terms of a project of translation, the volume is an impressive achievement.' Canadian Philosophical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroductions of the translations; 1. A new elucidation of the first principles of metaphysical cognition (1755); 2. The employment in natural philosophy of metaphysics combined with geometry, of which sample I contains the physical monadology (1756); 3. An attempt at some reflections on optimism (1759); 4. The false subtlety of the four syllogistic figures (1762); 5. The only possible argument in support of a demonstration of the existence of God (1763); 6. Attempt to introduce the concept of negative magnitudes into philosophy (1763); 7. Inquiry concerning the distinctness of the principles of natural theology and morality (1764); 8. M. Immanuel Kant's announcement of the programme of his lectures for the winter semester 1765-1766 (1765); 9. Dreams of a spirit-seer elucidated by dreams of metaphysics (1766); 10. Concerning the ultimate ground of the differentiation of directions in space (1768); 11. On the form and principles of the sensible and the intelligible world [inaugural dissertation] (1770).
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Cambridge University Press Cross Curricular Teaching and Learning in the Secondary School Science
Book SynopsisGotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729â81), thinker, dramatist and controversialist of many-sided interests, is the most representative figure of the German Enlightenment. His defence of Spinoza, who had traditionally been condemned as an atheist, provoked a major controversy in philosophy, and his publication of H. S. Reimarus' radical assault on Christianity led to fundamental changes in Protestant theology. This volume presents the most comprehensive collection to date in English of Lessing's philosophical and theological writings, several of which are here translated for the first time. They are edited and translated by H. B. Nisbet, who also provides an introduction that sets them in their historical and philosophical contexts.Table of ContentsThe Christianity of Reason; On the Reality of Things outside God; Spinoza only put Leibniz on the Track of [his Theory of] Pre-established Harmony; On the Origin of Revealed Religion; Leibniz on Eternal Punishment; [Editorial Commentary on the 'Fragments' of Reimarus]; On the Proof of the Spirit and of Power; The Testament of St John; A Rejoinder; A Parable; Axioms; New Hypothesis on the Evangelists as Merely Human Historians; Necessary Answer to a Very Unnecessary Question of Herr Hauptpastor Goeze in Hamburg; The Religion of Christ; That More than Five Senses are Possible for Human Beings; Ernst and Falk: Dialogues for Freemasons; The Education of the Human Race; [Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Recollections of Conversations with Lessing in July and August].
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and NineteenthCentury Philosophy
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Cambridge University Press Humes Theory of Consciousness
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Cambridge University Press The Philosophy of Karl Popper
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Cambridge University Press Notes and Fragments
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Cambridge University Press The Philosophy of Peter Abelard
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Cambridge University Press Objectivity in Law and Morals
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Cambridge University Press Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes
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Cambridge University Press Idealism as Modernism
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Cambridge University Press Lectures on Ethics
Book SynopsisContains four versions of the lecture notes taken by Kant's students of his university courses in ethics given regularly over a period of some thirty years. The notes are very complete and expound not only Kant's views on ethics but many of his opinions on life and human nature.Trade Review"A very useful supplement of Kant's published writings in ethics." G. Zoeller, Choice"...an important service to English-speaking scholars interested in Kant's moral philosophy. ...a most welcome volume." Review of MetaphysicsTable of ContentsIntroduction J. B. Schneedwind; Part I. Kant's Practical Philosophy: 1. Herder's lecture notes (selections); Part II. Moral Philosophy: 2. Collins's lecture notes; Part III. Morality According to Professor Kant: 3. Mrongovius's second set of lecture notes (selections); Part IV. Kant on the Metaphyscics of Morals: 4. Vigilantius's lecture notes.
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Cambridge University Press Henry More and the Scientific Revolution
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Cambridge University Press Francis Bacon The New Organon Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
Book SynopsisWhen the New Organon appeared in 1620, part of a six-part programme of scientific inquiry entitled 'The Great Renewal of Learning', Francis Bacon was at the high point of his political career, and his ambitious work was groundbreaking in its attempt to give formal philosophical shape to a new and rapidly emerging experimentally-based science. Bacon combines theoretical scientific epistemology with examples from applied science, examining phenomena as various as magnetism, gravity, and the ebb and flow of the tides, and anticipating later experimental work by Robert Boyle and others. His work challenges the entire edifice of the philosophy and learning of his time, and has left its mark on all subsequent philosophical discussions of scientific method. This volume presents a new translation of the text into modern English by Michael Silverthorne, and an introduction by Lisa Jardine that sets the work in the context of Bacon's scientific and philosophical activities.Trade Review"The importance of this work is evident...the Cambridge edition does a respectable job at striving for both accuracy and readability. I would recommend this edition of Bacon's New Organon for use in survey and/or mid-level courses dealing with the development of seventeenth-century philosophy and science." Teaching PhilosophyTable of ContentsPlan of the work; The second part of the work: the New Organon or true directions for the interpretation of nature; Summary of the second part of the work, digested into aphorisms: Book I, Book II.
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Cambridge University Press Making a Necessity of Virtue
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Cambridge University Press Kant and the Experience of Freedom
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Cambridge University Press Hegels Phenomenology The Sociality of Reason
Book SynopsisThe Phenomenology of Spirit is both one of Hegel's most widely read books and one of his most obscure. The book is the most detailed commentary on Hegel's work available. It develops an independent philosophical account of the general theory of knowledge, culture, and history presented in the Phenomenology. In a clear and straightforward style, Terry Pinkard reconstructs Hegel's theoretical philosophy and shows its connection to ethical and political theory. He sets the work in a historical context and shows the contemporary relevance of Hegel's thought for European and Anglo-American philosophers. The principal audience for the book is teachers and students of philosophy, but the great interest in Hegel's work and the clarity of Pinkard's exposition ensure that historians of ideas, political scientists, and literary theorists will also read it.Trade Review'It is a remarkable reconstruction indeed. Among other things, it is a model of lucid and disciplined philosophical writing … He takes Hegel's seemingly disconnected discussions … and successfully weaves them together into a coherent argument.' Sally Sedgwick, Dartmouth CollegeTable of Contents1. Why the Phenomenology of Spirit?; 2. The claims to self-sufficient knowledge: sense-certainty, perception, understanding; 3. The claims of self-sufficient agency: freedom and self-consciousness; 4. Modern life's project of self-justification; 5. Modern life's alternatives and modern life's possibilities; 6. The self-reflection of the human community; 7. The essential structure of modern life.
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Cambridge University Press Rousseau and Geneva From the First Discourse to The Social Contract 17491762 46 Ideas in Context Series Number 46
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Peirce
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Cambridge University Press Mourning Becomes the Law Philosophy and Representation
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Cambridge University Press Schopenhauer
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Rousseau
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Cambridge University Press Nietzsches Dangerous Game
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Cambridge University Press Moses Mendelssohn
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Cambridge University Press Malebranche Dialogues Metaphysics Dialogues on Metaphysics and on Religion Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
Book SynopsisMalebranche's Dialogues on Metaphysics and on Religion is in many ways the best introduction to his thought, and provides the most systematic exposition of his philosophy as a whole. In it, he presents clear and comprehensive statements of his two best-known contributions to metaphysics and epistemology, namely, the doctrines of occasionalism and vision in God; he also states his views on such central issues as self-knowledge, the existence of the external world and the problem of theodicy. His skilful handling of the dialogue form enables the reader to see how he responds to objections made to his earlier work The Search after Truth. This edition presents a translation of the text which is clear, readable and more accurate than any of its predecessors, together with an introduction that analyses Malebranche's central teachings and explains the importance of the Dialogues in the context of seventeenth-century philosophy.Trade Review"For those wishing to learn more about [Malebrance] thought, this volume is the place to start." Donald Rutherford, Religious Studies ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Chronology; Further reading; Note on the text; Dialogues on Metaphysics and on Religion; Dialogues 1–14; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Moses Mendelssohn
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Cambridge University Press Nietzsche contra Rousseau
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Cambridge University Press Fichte Foundations Natural Right Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
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Cambridge University Press Kant and the Claims of Taste
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Rousseau
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Cambridge University Press Leibniz New Essays 2ed New Essays on Human Understanding Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
Book SynopsisIn the New Essays on Human Understanding, Leibniz argues chapter by chapter with John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding, challenging his views about knowledge, personal identity, God, morality, mind and matter, nature versus nurture, logic and language, and a host of other topics. The work is a series of sharp, deep discussions by one great philosopher of the work of another. Leibniz's references to his contemporaries and his discussions of the ideas and institutions of the age make this a fascinating and valuable document in the history of ideas. The work was originally written in French, and the version by Peter Remnant and Jonathan Bennett, based on the only reliable French edition (published in 1962), first appeared in 1981 and has become the standard English translation. It has been thoroughly revised for this series and provided with a new and longer introduction, a chronology on Leibniz's life and career and a guide to further reading.Table of ContentsPreface; Book I: Of innate notions; Book II: Of ideas; Book III: Of words; Book IV: Of knowledge; Notes; Reference; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Mourning Becomes the Law Philosophy And Representation
Book SynopsisIn Mourning Becomes the Law, Gillian Rose takes us beyond the impasse of post-modernism or 'despairing rationalism withour reason'. Arguing that the post-modern search for a 'new ethics' and ironic philosophy are incoherent, she breathes new life into the debates concerning power and domination, transcendence and eternity. Mourning Becomes the Law is the philosophical counterpart to Gillian Rose's highly acclaimed memoir Love's Work. She extends similar clarity and insight to discussions of architecture, cinema, painting and poetry, through which relations between the formation of the individual and the theory of justice are connected. At the heart of this reconnection lies a reflection on the significance of the Holocaust and Judaism. Mourning Becomes the Law reinvents the classical analogy of the soul, the city and the sacred. It returns philosophy, Nietzsche's 'bestowing virtue', to the pulse of our intellectual and political culture.Trade Review"'I may die before my time,' Gillian Rose says in this remarkable book. She did, but she understood dying as few people have, and she lived her drastically shortened time as a philosopher who believed both in the soul and in the necessary charm of earthly powers....Death is at the heart of the book, but no one has ever argued more beautifully or eloquently that 'death is not nothing,' and that mourning, when it becomes the law, that is, when it returns to reason, could even put an end to what Gillian Rose calls the 'endless dying' of life under tyranny." Michael Wood, Princeton University"These essays contribute to the picture of a remarkable spiritual odyssey, by a rare, demanding and pitiless intelligence." --The New Statesman"This is a wonderful book that manages that rare feat of combining high levels of both passion and rigour. I highly recommend it." David Sherman, DialogueTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Athens and Jerusalem: a tale of three cities; 2. Beginnings of the day: Fascism and representation; 3. The comedy of Hegel and the Trauerspiel of modern philosophy; 4. 'Would that they would forsake Me but observe my Torah': Midrash and political authority; 5. Potter's Field: death worked and unworked; 6. O! Untimely death/death.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Peirce Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
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Cambridge University Press Malebranche
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Cambridge University Press William James and the Metaphysics of Experience 05 Cambridge Studies in Religion and Critical Thought Series Number 5
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Cambridge University Press Nietzsche
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Cambridge University Press Condillac Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge
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Cambridge University Press Malebranche The Search after Truth With Elucidations of The Search after Truth Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
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Cambridge University Press Nietzsche
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of Philosophy 18701945
Book SynopsisThe Cambridge History of Philosophy 1870â1945 comprises over sixty specially commissioned essays by experts on the philosophy of this period and is designed to be accessible to non-specialists who have little previous familiarity with philosophy. As with the other volumes in the series, much of the emphasis of the essays is thematic, concentrating on developments during the period across a range of philosophical topics, from logic and metaphysics to political philosophy and philosophy of religion. Several chapters also discuss the changing relationship of philosophy to the natural and social sciences during this period. The result is an authoritative survey of this rich and varied period of philosophical activity, which will be of critical importance not only to teachers and students of philosophy but also to scholars in neighbouring disciplines such as the history of science, the history of ideas, theology and the social sciences.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: 'The overall standard of the contributions is high, and there is much to be gained from the brief but incisive essays … a valuable reference work.' Political Studies ReviewReview of the hardback: '… The Cambridge History of Philosophy is a magnificent achievement: a superb resource that can be recommended to all philosophers and anyone with an interest in the history of the period.' British Journal for the History of PhilosophyTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. 1870–1914; Section 1. The Dialectical Situation in 1870: Positivism vs. Idealism: 1. The positivist tradition; 2. Neo-Kantianism: the German idealism movement; 3. Idealism in Britain and the USA; 4. Idealism in Russia; Section 2. The Argument Moves on: Pragmatism and the New Realisms: 5. Bergson; 6. Pragmatism; 7. Psychology: old and new; 8. The unconscious mind; Section 3. The New Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics: 9. The new logic: revival, reform, revolution; 10. Foundations of mathematics; Section 4. From Judgement to Language: 11. Theories of judgement; 12. The logical analysis of language; Section 5. Physics and the Philosophy of Science: 13. The atomism debate; 14. Theories of space-time in modern physics; Section 6. Philosophy of History and the Idea of Social Sciences: 15. The German debate and the Geisteswissenschaften; 16. From political economy to positive economics; 17. Sociology and the idea of social science; Section 7. Ethical Theory: 18. Utilitarians and idealists; 19. Nietzsche; 20. The new realism in ethics; Section 8. Legal and Political Theory: 21. Individualism vs. collectivism; 22. Marxism and anarchism; 23. Legal theory; Section 9. Philosophy and Religion: 24. Sceptical challenges to faith; 25. The defence of faith; Section 10. Philosophy and the Arts: 26. Art and morality: aesthetics at 1870; 27. Format and feeling: aesthetics at the turn of the century; Interlude: philosophy and the Great War; Part II. 1914–45; Section 11. Logic and Philosophy: The Analytic Programme: 28. Logical atomism; 29. Logical positivism; 30. The achievements of the Polish school of logic; 31. Logic and philosophical analysis; Section 12. From Idealism and Naturalism to Phenomenology and Existentialism: 32. The continuing idealist tradition; 33. Transformations in speculative philosophy; 34. Realism, naturalism and pragmatism; 35. French Catholic philosophy; 36. Spanish philosophy; 37. The phenomenological movement; 38. Heidegger; 39. Latin American philosophy; 40. Japanese philosophy; Section 13. Perception, Knowledge, Language, and the End of Metaphysics: 41. Sensible appearances; 42. The renaissance of epistemology; 43. The solipsism debates; 44. Language; 45. The end of philosophy as metaphysics; Section 14. Philosophy and the Exact Sciences: 46. First-order logic and its rivals; 47. The golden age of mathematical logic; 48. General relativity; 49. Scientific explanation; 50. The rise of probabilistic thinking; Section 15. Mind and its Place in Nature: 51. Vitalism and emergentism; 52. Behaviourism and psychology; 53. Gestalt psychology; 54. Wittgenstein's conception of mind; Section 16. Philosophy and The Social Sciences: 55. The methodology of the social sciences; 56. The rise of social anthropology; 57. Western Marxism and ideology critique; Section 17. Ethics and Religion: Emotivism, Intuitionism, and Authenticity: 58. From intuitionism to emotivism; 59. Philosophy of religion; Section 18. Literature and Aesthetic Theory: 60. Literature as philosophy; 61. Aesthetics between the wars: art and liberation; Section 19. The Decline of Europe: 62. The liberal democratic state: defences and developments, 1918–45; 63. Hans Kelsen and normative legal positivism; 64. The liberal democratic state – critics; Bibliographical appendix; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Fichtes Transcendental Philosophy
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Cambridge University Press Hobbes and Bramhall on Liberty and Necessity
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Cambridge University Press Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes
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