British Philosophy and the Age of Enlightenment - 9780415308779

Taylor & Francis

This fifth volume covers many of the most important philosophers and movements of the nineteenth century, including utilitarianism, positivism and pragmatism. > This fifth volume covers many of the most important philosophers and movements of the nineteenth century, including utilitarianism, positivism and pragmatism. > 1. Lord Herbert of Cherbury and the Cambridge Platonists2. Science and British philosophy: Boyle and Newton3. Locke: knowledge and its limits4. Locke's political theory5. George Berkeley6. David Hume on human understanding7. Hume: moral and political philosophy8. British moralists of the eighteenth century: Shaftesbury, Butler and Price9. The French Enlightenment I: science, materialism and determinism10. The French Enlightenment II: deism, morality and politics11. The Scottish Enlightenment12. The German Aufkl\u00E4rung and British philosophy13. Giambattista Vico14. Rousseau and Burke