The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century

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This is the first book to provide comprehensive coverage of the full range of philosophical writing in Britain in the eighteenth century. A team of experts provide new accounts of both major and lesser-known thinkers, and explores the diverse approaches in the period to logic and metaphysics, the passions, morality, criticism, and politics. Cover Contents Notes on Contributors Introduction PART I: THE LANGUAGES OF PHILOSOPHY IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN 1. Locke and His Influence 2. Newton and Newtonianism in Eighteenth-Century British Thought 3. The Idea of a Science of Human Nature 4. Rhetoric and Eloquence: The Language of Persuasion PART II: LOGIC AND METAPHYSICS 5. Perception and the Language of Nature 6. Language and Thought 7. The Understanding 8. Mind and Matter PART III: THE PASSIONS 9. Passions, Affections, Sentiments: Taxonomy and Terminology 10. Reason and the Passions 11. Liberty and Necessity 12. The Government of the Passions PART IV: MORALS 13. Self-Interest and Sociability 14. Moral Judgment 15. The Nature of Virtue 16. Practical Ethics PART V: CRITICISM 17. The Pleasures of the Imagination and the Objects of Taste 18. The Faculty of Taste 19. The Pleasures of Tragedy 20. Genius and the Creative Imagination PART VI: POLITICS 21. The Origin of Civil Government 22. Forms of Government 23. Reform and Revolution 24. Luxury, Commerce, and the Rise of Political Economy PART VII: PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION 25. Causation, Cosmology, and the Limits of Philosophy: The Early Eighteenth-Century British Debate 26. Philosophy, Revealed Religion, and the Enlightenment 27. Religion and Morality Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y Z