Western philosophy: Enlightenment books

Part of the complete works of the French philosopher, historian and social reformer, Voltaire. Contains texts from...  Read More >>

In these wide-ranging essays Paul Hoffman argues that Descartes retains three Aristotelian doctrines: soul and body...  Read More >>

Il s’agissait de comprendre comment des fictions s’enracinaient, en amont, dans des textes qui se donnaient comme...  Read More >>

An introduction to the key empiricists of the 17th and 18th centuries. It focuses on the canonical figures of the...  Read More >>

An introduction to the key empiricists of the 17th and 18th centuries. It focuses on the canonical figures of the...  Read More >>

The canonical image of John Locke as one of the first philosophes is so deeply engrained that we could forget that...  Read More >>

Kant's Critique of Practical Reason (1788) is one of his most important works and a key text to understanding Kant's...  Read More >>

Seventeen philosophical thinkers ask: What is creativity? What are the criteria of creativity? Should we assign...  Read More >>

Focuses on Hume's treatment of the concept of numerical identity, which is central to his famous discussions of...  Read More >>

Part of the complete works of the French philosopher, historian and social reformer, Voltaire. Two in a 13-volume...  Read More >>

"""Berkeley's Principles of Human Knowledge"" is a key text in the history of British Empiricism and 18th - century...  Read More >>

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"""Berkeley's Principles of Human Knowledge"" is a key text in the history of British Empiricism and 18th - century...  Read More >>

Livre à lire et livre à voir, le roman illustré des Lumières nous invite à un double exercice du regard, grâce auquel...  Read More >>

As the relationship between Jean-Jacques Rousseau and David Hume unraveled, a volley of rancorous letters was fired...  Read More >>

Depuis les travaux innovateurs de Georges May et de Henri Coulet, qui furent parmi les premiers à identifier l’importance...  Read More >>

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The idea that society progresses through stages of development, from savagery to civilization, arose in eighteenth-century...  Read More >>

Cette synthèse sur le Dictionnaire philosophique de Voltaire dégage les lignes de force d’une œuvre majeure témoignant...  Read More >>

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Melnick explains the ""third status"" of the self by identifying it with intellectual action that does not arise...  Read More >>

The 1760s was a pivotal decade for the philosophes. In the late 1750s their cause had been at a low ebb, but it...  Read More >>

Examines Descartes' remarkable attempt to construct a new basis for scientific understanding, his famous first principle:...  Read More >>

The myth of Prometheus has inspired countless generations of humanists throughout the ages. Prometheus -- who stole...  Read More >>