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The Early Reception of Berkeley’s Immaterialism 1710–1733
By the time of Immanuel Kant, Berkeley had been called, among other things, a sceptic, an atheist, a solipsist, and an idealist. In our own day, however, the suggestion has been …
The Works of Jacques-Auguste de Thou
Until the nineteenth century Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553-1617) was among the most famous and most valued of historians. While his first fame was a succes de scandale - the …
Maimonides and Philosophy
In the year 1985, presumed to mark the 850th anniversary of Maimonides' birth, the Sixth Jerusalem Philosophical Encounter was dedicated to Maim onides as philosopher. We did not …
Church Reform in 18th Century Italy
The complete history of J ansenism will probably never be written because to write it would involve the study of a movement that grew and changed constantly for more than two …
A Critical Study of Condillac’s
The Traite des systemes is a milestone in the intellectual history of the eighteenth century. This is a study of its content, structure, sources and importance. It includes a …
Studies in Spanish Renaissance Thought
In spite of its carefully planned - and fully justified - modesty, the title of this book might very well surprise more than one potential reader. It is not normal to see such …
Berkeley’s Philosophy of Science
Philonous: You see, Hylas, the water of yonder fountain, how it is forced upwards, in a round column, to a certain height, at which it breaks and falls back into the basin from …
A Seventeenth-Century Exposure of Superstition
A Medievalist in the Eighteenth Century
It is a common belief that in France the study of medieval literature as literature only began to gain recognition as a valid occupation for the scholar during the nineteenth …
The Crisis of French Sea Power, 1688–1697
The French navy that fought in the Nine Years War was essentially Colbert's creation. Earlier in the century Richelieu had given France the beginnings of a navy: ships, ports, a …
Religion, Rationality and Community
This study is an attempt to examine the relationships between religious belief and the humanism of the Enlightenment in the philosophy of Hegel and of a group of thinkers who …
Literary Figures in French Drama (1784–1834)
The general aim of this book is to present a study of a dramatic genre which was a significant facet of French drama in the period from 1784 to 1834 and has never before been …