McCarthy, John C.

Modern Enlightenment and the Rule of Reason. - [Place of publication not identified] : Catholic University of America Press (Bibliovault) : (c)2018. Catholic University of America Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Intro; Contents; Introduction; 1. Alan Charles Kors / Just and Arbitrary Authority in Enlightenment Thought; 2. Richard Kennington / Bacon's Reform of Nature; 3. Pamela Kraus / Method and Metaphysics: The Foundation of Philosophy in the Discourse on Method; 4. Robert P. Kraynak / Hobbes and the Dogmatism of the Enlightenment; 5. John C. Mccarthy / Pascal on Certainty and Utility; 6. Paul J. Bagley / Spinoza, Biblical Criticism, and the Enlightenment; 7. Philippe Raynaud / Leibniz, Reason; and Evil; 8. F. J. Crosson / Hume's Unnatural Religion (Some Humean Footnotes) 9. Terence E. Marshall / Poetry and Praxis in Rousseau's Emile: Human Rights and the Sentiment of Humanity10. Kenneth L. Schmitz / Lessing at God's Left Hand; 11. John R. Silber / Kant and the Mythic Roots of Morality; 12. Nicholas Capaldi / The Enlightenment Project in Twentieth-Century Philosophy; Contributors; Bibliography; Index



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Enlightenment.


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