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Destined for Evil?
This collection of 15 essays on various aspects of the problem of evil brings together the opinions of well known authors from various disciplines [philosophy, theology, literary …
Nietzsche's Anthropic Circle
Nietzsche's Anthropic Circle is an internal analysis and interpretation of Nietzsche's critical uncovering of "anthropomorphic truth" in language and science, as well as his later …
David Hume and Eighteenth-Century America
A thorough examination of the role which David Hume's writings played upon the founders of the United States. This book explores the reception of David Hume's political thought in …
The Works of Bishop Butler
The complete works of Joseph Butler, newly edited, with an introduction, notes, glossary, and an analytic index. This edition of Bishop Joseph Butler's [1692-1752] complete works …
Fire in the Dark
The eight essays in Fire in the Dark frame and probe Pascal's underlying contention that the darkling, "hidden" God of Christian revelation, though Himself a profound mystery, …
Matter and Spirit
This narrative shows how the contours of moral and political philosophy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were shaped by Kant's two distinct philosophical responses to …
A History of Reasonableness
A defense of the social operation of thinking, with an emphasis on testimony and authority. This book describes a lost tradition that can be called reasonableness. The tradition …
The Scottish Enlightenment
A collection of essays dealing with the history of the Scottish Enlightenment, its connection with the European Enlightenment in general, such major figures as Francis Hutcheson, …
Plato's Erotic Thought
An attempt, by a close reading of three Platonic dialogues, the Symposium, Lysis, and the Phaedrus, to discover the true nature of the object of Eros and especially to understand …
Religion and the Origins of the German Enlightenment
Analysis of the close relationship between religion and secular learning in the works of one of the central figures of the early German Enlightenment, the jurist and philosopher …
Rationality and Happiness
This volume explores the relationship between rationality and happiness from ancient Greek philosophy to early Latin medieval philosophy. What connection is there between human …
Leibniz on Purely Extrinsic Denominations
An examination of the philosopher Gottfried Leibniz's views on extrinsic denominations [relational properties], which argues that they are in fact the properties of the things they …