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New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2001.
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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 all Bennett's work on early modern philosophy. 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.
Volume 1: In this volume Jonathan Bennett examines the views of Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz on matter and space, the foundations of physics, atomism and alternatives to it, causation, knowledge of necessary truths, how mind relates to body, the nature and significance of human desires, our perception of the material world, and other topics. While exhibiting and celebrating the wonderful breadth, depth and boldness of the thinking of these philosophers, Bennett also tracks them into the details, where the life is, evaluating their doctrines and arguments on their own merits and in relation to current philosophical problems and interests. Volume 2: In this volume Jonathan Bennett examines the views of Locke, Berkeley, and Hume on thought and sensation, meaning, language, classification, innate ideas and knowledge, our knowledge of necessary truths (bringing in Descartes and Leibniz as well), the basis for our belief that we live in a world of material things, causation, the fundamental difference between colours and shapes, the passage of time and our ability to live through it.
While finding much to criticize, Bennett shows that we can learn much about these and other topics under the guidance and inspiration of the energy, courage, and insight of the three great British phillosophers.
Contents
VOLUME 1; 1. Cartesian and Aristotelian Physics; 2. Matter and Space; 3. Descartes's Physics; 4. Descartes's Dualisms; 5. Descartes on Causation; 6. Preparing to Approach Spinoza; 7. One Extended Substance; 8. Explaining the Parallelism; 9. Explanatory Rationalism; 10. Spinoza on Belief and Error; 11. Desire in Descartes and Spinoza; 12. Leibniz Arrives at Monads; 13. Causation and Perception in Leibniz; 14. Leibniz's Physics; 15. Harmony; 16. Animals that Think; 17. Leibniz'a Contained-Predicate Doctrine; 18. Leibniz and Relations; 19. Descartes's Search for Security; 20. Descartes's Stability Project; VOLUME 2; 21. Lockean Ideas: Overview and Foundations; 22. Lockean Ideas: Some Details; 23. Knowledge of Necessity; 24. Descartes's Theory of Modality; 25. Secondary Qualities; 26. Locke on Essences; 27. Substance in Locke; 28. Berkeley against Materialism; 29. Berkeley's Use of Locke's Work; 30. Berkeley on Spirits; 31. Berkeleian Sensible Things; 32. Hume's 'Ideas'; 33. Hume and Belief; 34. Some Humean Doctrine about Relations; 35. Hume on Causation: Negative; 36. Hume on Causation: Positive; 37. Hume on the Existence of Bodies; 38. Reason; 39. Locke on Diachronic Identity-Judgements; 40. Hume and Leibniz on Personal Identity; Bibliography, Index of Persons, Index of Topics
