Routledge History of Philosophy Volume V: British Empiricism and the Enlightenment

Stuart Brown0-203-03005-2, 0-203-06005-9, 0-415-05379-X, 9780415053792

This volume begins with Herbert of Cherbury and the Cambridge Platonists and with Newton and the early English Enlightenment. Locke is a key figure, 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 the Enlightenment includes discussion of the Scott Enlightenment and its influence on the German Aufklaring, and consequently on Kant. The French Enlightenment, which in turn affected the late radical Enlightenment, especially Bentham, is also considered here.

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Table of contents :
Cover Page……Page 1
Routledge History of Philosophy, Volume V……Page 2
Title Page……Page 5
ISBN 041505379X……Page 6
Contents……Page 7
General editors’ preface……Page 8
Notes on contributors……Page 10
Chronology……Page 12
Introduction……Page 42
CHAPTER 1 Lord Herbert of Cherbury and the Cambridge Platonists……Page 57
CHAPTER 2 Science and British philosophy: Boyle and Newton……Page 76
CHAPTER 3 Locke: knowledge and its limits……Page 97
CHAPTER 4 Locke’s political theory……Page 119
CHAPTER 5 George Berkeley……Page 142
CHAPTER 6 David Hume on human understanding……Page 164
CHAPTER 7 Hume: moral and political philosophy……Page 188
CHAPTER 8 British moralists of the eighteenth century: Shaftesbury, Butler and Price……Page 207
CHAPTER 9 The French Enlightenment I: science, materialism and determinism……Page 227
CHAPTER 10 The French Enlightenment II: deism, morality and politics……Page 246
CHAPTER 11 The Scottish Enlightenment……Page 265
CHAPTER 12 The German Aufklärung and British philosophy……Page 294
CHAPTER 13 Giambattista Vico……Page 314
CHAPTER 14 Rousseau and Burke……Page 334
Glossary……Page 355
Index of subjects……Page 363
Index of names……Page 373