History of Philosophy: Descartes to LeibnizDiscusses Descartes, Pascal, Malebranche, Spinoza and Leibniz. Deals with the great rationalist systems of philosophy in Europe in the preKantian period. + |
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... position as an integral part of European philosophy in general . At the same time , if discontinuity can be over - emphasized , so can continuity . If we compare the patterns of social and political life in the thirteenth and ...
... position as an integral part of European philosophy in general . At the same time , if discontinuity can be over - emphasized , so can continuity . If we compare the patterns of social and political life in the thirteenth and ...
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... position as any philosopher today who happens to be a Christian but who is not , in the professional sense , a theologian . That is one reason why philosophers like Descartes and Locke appear to us ' modern ' if we compare them with St ...
... position as any philosopher today who happens to be a Christian but who is not , in the professional sense , a theologian . That is one reason why philosophers like Descartes and Locke appear to us ' modern ' if we compare them with St ...
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... position accorded to philosophy in the thirteenth century was the right one . That is to say , the rights of reason were recognized ; but so were the rights of revelation . And it was a benefit to philosophy if recognition of revealed ...
... position accorded to philosophy in the thirteenth century was the right one . That is to say , the rights of reason were recognized ; but so were the rights of revelation . And it was a benefit to philosophy if recognition of revealed ...
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... position one strand in mediaeval culture ; and in this sense it involved a shift of em- phasis . But it would not have been sufficient by itself to prepare the background for the early phase of modern philosophy . A change from the ...
... position one strand in mediaeval culture ; and in this sense it involved a shift of em- phasis . But it would not have been sufficient by itself to prepare the background for the early phase of modern philosophy . A change from the ...
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Contents
DESCARTES 1 | 63 |
DESCARTES 2 | 90 |
DESCARTES 3 | 116 |
DESCARTES 4 | 124 |
DESCARTES 5 | 139 |
PASCAL | 153 |
LEIBNIZ | 159 |
CARTESIANISM | 174 |
SPINOZA 2 | 214 |
SPINOZA 3 | 230 |
SPINOZA 4 | 238 |
SPINOZA 5 | 252 |
LEIBNIZ 1 | 264 |
LEIBNIZ 2 | 273 |
LEIBNIZ 3 | 295 |
from eternal truthsThe argument from truths of factThe | 320 |
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