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A Short History of Modern Philosophy : From Descartes to Wittgenstein / Roger Scruton.

Scruton, Roger, (author.). Scruton, Roger. From Descartes to Wittgenstein. (Added Author).

Summary:

Revised edition of: From Descartes to Wittgenstein. 1981. Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-295) and index.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0415133270
  • ISBN: 9780415133272
  • ISBN: 0415130352
  • ISBN: 9780415130356
  • Physical Description: ix, 302 pages ; 21 cm
  • Edition: 2nd, rev. and enl. ed.
  • Publisher: London ; Routledge, 1995.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Revised edition of: From Descartes to Wittgenstein. 1981.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-295) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction -- History of philosophy and history of ideas -- The rise of modern philosophy -- Part One: Rationalism -- Descartes -- The Cartesian revolution -- Spinoza -- Leibniz -- Part Two: Empiricism -- Locke and Berkeley -- The idea of moral science -- Hume -- Part Three: Kant and idealism -- Kant I: The critique of pure reason -- Kant II: Ethics and aesthetics -- Hegel -- Reactions: Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche -- Part Four: The political transformation -- Political philosophy from Hobbes to Hegel -- Marx -- Utilitarianism and after -- Part Five: Recent philosophy -- Frege -- Phenomenology and existentialism -- Wittgenstein.
Subject:
Philosophy, Modern.
Philosophy, Modern.
Filosofie.
Philosophy, Modern > History.
Philosophie > Histoire.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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