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Matter and Spirit: The Battle of Metaphysics in Modern Western Philosophy before Kant (Rochester Studies in Philosophy)

By James Lawler

Book information

Year
2006
ISBN
1580462219, 9781580462211, 9781580466639
LCC
BD111 .L33 2006
Open Library ID
OL22736341M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (15003762 bytes)
Pages
584\579
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This history of early modern Western philosophy takes its inspiration from Kant's claim that the battle between the metaphysics of matter and that of spirit is the principal axis around which modern philosophy up to his time, in all its aspects, has revolved. The empiricist-materialist trend that dominates in England is first examined in the progressively unfolding works of Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Adam Smith. A contrasting and competing dialectic develops in the rationalist/spiritualist trend in the continental philosophy of Descartes, Leibniz, and Rousseau. Framing this history is the background context of the philosophy and science of Aristotle and the challenges to the traditional paradigm presented by the revolutionary sciences of Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton. James Lawler is professor of philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

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