2001, ISBN: 0198250916

[EAN: 9780198250913], [PU: Clarendon Press / Oxford University Press, Oxford/ New York], MISC ; PHILOSOPHY, Black cloth boards with gilt lettering; blue illustrated dj, mylar cover; xix, … More...

[EAN: 9780198250913], [PU: Clarendon Press / Oxford University Press, Oxford/ New York], MISC ; PHILOSOPHY, Black cloth boards with gilt lettering; blue illustrated dj, mylar cover; xix, 403 pp. Volume 1 of a two volume set. "In this illuminating, highly engaging book, Jonathan Bennett acquaints us with the ideas of six great thinkers of the early modern period: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume. For newcomers to the early modern scene, this lucidly written work is an excellent introduction. For those already familiar with the time period, this book offers insight into the great philosophers, treating them as colleagues, antagonists, students, and teachers."- dust jacket. Contents include: Introduction -- Cartesian and Aristotelian physics -- Matter and space -- Descartes's physics -- Descartes's dualisms -- Descartes on causation -- Preparing to approach Spinoza -- One extended substance -- Explaining the parallelism -- Explanatory rationalism -- Spinoza on belief and error -- Desire in Descartes and Spinoza -- Leibniz arrives at Monads -- Causation and perception in Leibniz -- Leibniz's physics -- Harmony -- Animals that think -- Leibniz's contained-predicate doctrine -- Leibniz and relations -- Descartes's search for security -- Descartes's stability project. VG/VG (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Pages are very clean and clear.), Books<