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17th Century Theories of Substance. In contemporary, everyday language, the word “substance” tends to be a generic term used to refer to various kinds of material stuff (“We need to clean this sticky substance off the floor”) or as an adjective referring to something’s mass, size, or importance (“That is a substantial bookcase ...
Abstract. My aim in this chapter is to read again the metaphysicians of the classical period (I have selected Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Leibniz, and Lock
Daniel Garber, Michael Ayers. Cambridge University Press, 1998 - Philosophy - 1616 pages. Annotation. The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy offers a uniquely comprehensive and authoritative overview of early-modern philosophy written by an international team of specialists. As with previous Cambridge Histories of Philosophy ...
Introduction. Accounts of the history of feminist philosophy often treat the claims and arguments of those writing before the eighteenth century as a kind of prehistory to the undeniably important development of a conception of women's rights in the 1790s, and describe those promoting the worth of women as pro-woman writers rather than as feminists (see, for example, King Reference King 1991: ...
Thomas Hobbes ( / hɒbz / HOBZ; 5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679) was an English philosopher. Hobbes is best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory. [4] He is considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy. [5] [6]
1 de jul. de 2013 · Abstract. The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy of the 17th Century provides an advanced comprehensive overview of the issues that are informing research on the subject of British philosophy in the seventeenth century, while at the same time offering new directions for research to take. It covers the whole of the seventeenth century ...
The aims of this conclusion are, first, to cast into relief the special status of the problem of consonance in the 17th century, and second, to show how subsequent changes in the status of the problem of consonance have re-contextualized its relevance for us today. The Mudd Manuscript Library retains one bound copy of each dissertation.
