文档介绍：Routledge History of Philosophy
Volume V
European philosophy from the late seventeenth century through most of the eighteenth is
broadly conceived as ‘the Enlightenment’, a period of reaction against the ambitious
metaphysical systems of the seventeenth-century Rationalists.
This volume begins with Herbert of Cherbury and the Cambridge Platonists and with
Newton and the early English Enlightenment. Locke is a key figure in later chapters, as a
result of his importance both in the development of British and Irish philosophy and
because of his seminal influence in the Enlightenment as a whole. British Philosophy and
the Age of Enlightenment includes discussion of the Scottish Enlightenment and its
influence on the German Aufklärung, and consequently on Kant. French thought, which
in turn affected the late radical Enlightenment, especially Bentham, is also considered
here.
This survey brings together clear, authoritative chapters from leading experts and
provides a scholarly introduction to this period in the history of philosophy. It includes a
glossary of technical terms and a chronological table of important political, philosophical,
scientific and other cultural events.
Stuart Brown is Professor of Philosophy at the Open University. He has written
extensively on seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophy and is the author of a book
on Leibniz. He has edited several collections, including Philosophers of the
Enlightenment (1979) and Nicholas Malebranche: his Philosophical Critics and
essors (1991).
Routledge History of Philosophy
General Editors— and
The Routledge History of Philosophy provides a chronological survey of the history of
Western philosophy, from its beginnings in the sixth century BC to the present time. It
discusses all major philosophical developments in depth. Most space is allocated to those
individuals who, mon consent, are regarded as great philosophers. But lesser
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