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Autore |
Hutton Sarah |
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Titolo |
British philosophy in the seventeenth century / / Sarah Hutton |
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Oxford, England : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (297 p.) |
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Collana |
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Oxford History of Philosophy |
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Soggetti |
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Philosophy, British - 17th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Sarah Hutton presents a rich historical study of one of the most fertile periods in modern philosophy. It was in the seventeenth century that Britain's first philosophers of international stature and lasting influence emerged. Its most famous names, Hobbes and Locke, rank alongside the greatest names in the European philosophical canon. Bacon too belongs with this constellation of great thinkers, although his status as a philosopher tends to be obscured by his statusas father of modern science. The seventeenth century is normally regarded as the dawn of modernity following the breakdown of the |
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