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Jonathan Bennett engages with the thought of six great thinkers of the early modern period: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume. While not neglecting the historical setting of each, his chief focus is on the words they wrote. What problem is being tackled? How exactly is the solution meant to work? Does it succeed? If not, why not? What can be learned from its success or failure? For newcomers to the early modern scene, this clearly written work is an excellent introduction to it. Those already in the know can learn how to argue with the great philosophers of the past, treating them as colleagues, antagonists, students, teachers. In this second volume, Bennett focuses on the work of Locke, Berkeley, and Hume. Review `Review from previous edition Bennett ... tackles each philosopher head-on, aiming to expound his doctrines and arguments to contemporary readers, to evaluate them, and to make living works of them ... I am convinced that this is the best way to read the philosophers of the past ... I cannot report on all the riches of these two absolutely admirable volumes, written in a clear style and giving sense to the phrase search for truth.' Pascal Engel, Revu

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Author

Jonathan Francis Bennett, Jonathan Bennett

Publisher

Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9786612238116

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Philosophy, Social Science