| Description |
1 online resource (288 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction / Ruth Savage -- Martin Clifford and his Treatise of humane reason (1674) : a Europe-wide debate / Giovanni Tarantino -- Scougal's The life of God in the soul of man : the fortunes of a book, 1676-1830 / Isabel Rivers -- Locke's proof of the divine authority of scripture / Victor Nuovo -- Toland and the moral teaching of the gospel / Laurent Jaffro -- Religion and materialist metaphysics : some aspects of the debate about the resurrection of the body in eighteenth-century Britain / Udo Thiel -- Samuel Haliday (1685-1739) : travelling scholar, court lobbyist, and non-subscribing divine / A.D.G. Steers -- Presbyterianism and the right of private judgement : church government in Ireland and Scotland in the age of Francis Hutheson / James Moore -- Reasoning about morals from Butler to Hume / Aaron Garrett -- Hume on the origin of 'modern honour' : a study in Hume's philosophical development / John P. Wright -- The early reception of Hume's theory of justice / James A. Harris -- The end of empire and the death of religion : a reconsideration of Hume's later political thought / Moritz Baumstark -- Natural jurisprudence and the identity of the Scottish Enlightenment / Knud Haakonssen |
| Summary |
Leading scholars explore the interplay of philosophy with religion and science in the 18th century, a period of great cultural and intellectual change in Britain. They examine the currents of thought behind some of the most significant works in Western philosophy, including those by John Locke and David Hume |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Philosophy, British -- 18th century.
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Philosophy and religion -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
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Philosophy and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
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Enlightenment -- Great Britain
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RELIGION -- Philosophy.
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Enlightenment
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Philosophy and religion
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Philosophy and science
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Philosophy, British
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Savage, Ruth
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| ISBN |
0199227047 |
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9780199227044 |
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9780191631337 |
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0191631337 |
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1280777532 |
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9781280777530 |
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9780191739309 |
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0191739308 |
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