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Learning from Six Philosophers
Jonathan Bennett
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Description for Learning from Six Philosophers
Paperback. Bennett engages with the thought of six great thinkers of the early modern period: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume. 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? Num Pages: 424 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPCF; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 162 x 16. Weight in Grams: 608.
Jonathan Bennett engages with the thought of six great thinkers of the early modern period: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, 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 we learn from its success or its failure? These questions reflect Bennett's dedication to engaging with philosophy as philosophy, not as museum exhibit, and they require a close and demanding attention to textual details; these being two features that characterize ... Read more
Jonathan Bennett engages with the thought of six great thinkers of the early modern period: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, 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 we learn from its success or its failure? These questions reflect Bennett's dedication to engaging with philosophy as philosophy, not as museum exhibit, and they require a close and demanding attention to textual details; these being two features that characterize ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199266289
SKU
V9780199266289
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Reviews for Learning from Six Philosophers
The Clarendon Press has issued in paperback format Jonathan Bennett's two-volume survey of philosophers who helped to shape Western thought and continue to do so today ... Whilst never ignoring the philosopher's individual backgrounds [Bennett] concentrates on what they actually wrote and how they argued. The two volumes remain a masterful survey.
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