British philosophy in the seventeenth century / / Sarah Hutton

• Autore: Hutton Sarah
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, England : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 p.)
• Disciplina: 192
• Soggetto topico: Philosophy, British - 17th century
• Soggetto geografico: Storbritannien; Great Britain; Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: An age of transformation -- Philosophy in the universities -- Cross-currents, conduits, and conversations -- Aristotelianism and its enemies -- Bacon and Herbert of Cherbury -- Thomas Hobbes -- A Cambridge enlightenment: the Cambridge Platonists and Richard Cumberland -- From philosophy to science: natural philosophy of Boyle, Newton, and others -- John Locke -- Freethinkers, idealists, and women philosophers: philosophy from 1690 to 1710--and after.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: British philosophy in the seventeenth century
• ISBN: 0-19-105951-X; 0-19-880154-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910788123803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford history of philosophy.