Matter and Spirit: The Battle of Metaphysics in Modern Western Philosophy before Kant

James Lawler

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Matter and Spirit

The Battle of Metaphysics in Modern Western Philosophy before Kant

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James Lawler, State University of New York, Buffalo

Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer
Online publication date:: March 2023
Print publication year:: 2006
Online ISBN:: 9781580466639
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781580466639

Subjects:: History of Philosophy, Philosophy
Series:: Rochester Studies in Philosophy

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This narrative shows how the contours of moral and political philosophy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were shaped by Kant's two distinct philosophical responses to the results of modern science.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Acknowledgments
pp ix-x

Introduction
pp 1-10

PART ONE - THE MATTER-BASED PHILOSOPHY OF THE BRITISH TRADITION
pp 11-12

1 - Hobbes on Morality and the Modern Science of Motion
pp 13-39

2 - Freedom as the Realization of Desire
pp 40-69

3 - Leviathan: The Making of a Mortal God
pp 70-105

4 - John Locke: Underlaborer of the New Sciences
pp 106-158

5 - Locke on the Freedom of the Human Spirit
pp 159-203

6 - From Berkeley to Hume: The Radicalization of Empiricism
pp 204-232

7 - Hume's Science of the Dynamics of the Passions
pp 233-265

8 - Adam Smith Deciphers the Invisible Hand of the Market
pp 266-283

9 - Contradictions of Economic Life
pp 284-314

PART TWO - THE SPIRIT-BASED PHILOSOPHY OF THE EUROPEAN CONTINENT
pp 315-316

10 - I Think: Descartes’ Foundation of Modern Science
pp 317-335

11 - God and the Good Society
pp 336-375

12 - Leibniz's Discovery of Universal Freedom
pp 376-405

13 - The Best of All Possible Worlds
pp 406-442

14 - Justifying God's Ways: Kant's Progress from Leibniz through Pope to Rousseau
pp 443-466

15 - Rousseau's Reasoning of the Heart
pp 467-512

Notes
pp 513-554

Selected Bibliography
pp 555-560

Index
pp 561-574

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