Author: Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 339

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Author: Etienne Bonnot de Condillac (Philosopher, Political Economist, Abbot, France)
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Category : Knowledge, Theory of
Languages : en
Pages : 339

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Author: Etienne Bonnot De Condillac
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521585767
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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A highly influential work in the history of philosophy of mind and language.

Author: Étienne-Bonnot de Mably Condillac
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 339

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Author: F. P Lock
Publisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN: 0191551562
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 613

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Edmund Burke (1730-1797) was one of the most profound, versatile, and accomplished thinkers of the eighteenth century. Born and educated in Dublin, he moved to London to study law, but remained to make a career in English politics, completing A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) before entering the political arena. A Member of Parliament for nearly thirty years, his speeches are still read and studied as classics of political thought, and through his best-known work, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) he has continued to exercise a posthumous influence as `the father of conservatism'. This is the first full, scholarly biography of Burke for over a generation, to be completed in two volumes. The first volume covers the years between 1730-1784, and describes his Irish upbringing and education, early writing, and his parliamentary career throughout the momentous years of the American War of Independence. Lavishly illustrated, it provides an authoritative account of the complexity and breadth of Burke's philosophical and political writing and examines its origins in his personal experiences and the political world of his day. This outstanding book will be be required reading for anybody seeking a fuller understanding of eighteenth-century history, philosophy, and political thought.

Author: F. P Lock
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198206763
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 613

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This is a full, scholarly biography of Burke in two volumes. The first volume covers the years between 1730-1784, and describes his Irish upbringing and education, early writing, and his parliamentary career throughout the momentous years of the American War of Independence. This second volume covers 1784-97; its leading themes are India and the French Revolution. Burke was largely responsible for the impeachment of Warren Hastings, former Governor-General of Bengal.

Author: Etienne Bonnot de Condillac
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Category : Knowledge, Theory of
Languages : en
Pages : 414

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Author: David Swift
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443809039
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus provided some of our most cherished assumptions about physics and ethics. He postulated an infinite universe made exclusively of atoms and void. He also treated slaves and women as equals and defined our standards of pleasure and luxury. Now David Swift turns to Epicurus for help with another significant mystery: the scientific explanation of mind. Using Epicurean ideas that our minds are in our chests and, perhaps even more radically, that meaning is understood in our sense organs he re-examines and reinterprets the works of philosophers like Descartes, Locke, Kant and Mill and scientists such as Pavlov, Freud, Skinner and Rogers. Seen in the light of the Epicurean concept, Renaissance philosophy and classic scientific psychology validate a surprisingly consistent and coherent scientific explanation of behaviour. The mechanisms of meaning, knowledge, learning and remembering are explained in terms of biological reflexes. The secrets of love, hate and loyalty are revealed as non-verbal knowledge only accessible as feelings. And success, failure, criminal and other behaviours are shown to be the results of learned experience not genetic predisposition. At last we have the possibility of a plausible biologically-based general psychological theory.

Author: Alexander Dick
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317314530
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Brings together scholars who use literary interpretation and discourse analysis to read 18th-century British philosophy in its historical context. This work analyses how the philosophers of the Enlightenment viewed their writing; and, how their institutional positions as teachers and writers influenced their understanding of human consciousness.

Author: David Dwan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107495652
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 465

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Edmund Burke prided himself on being a practical statesman, not an armchair philosopher. Yet his responses to specific problems - rebellion in America, the abuse of power in India and Ireland, or revolution in France - incorporated theoretical debates within jurisprudence, economics, religion, moral philosophy and political science. Moreover, the extraordinary rhetorical force of Burke's speeches and writings quickly secured his reputation as a gifted orator and literary stylist. This Companion provides a comprehensive assessment of Burke's thought, exploring all his major writings from his early treatise on aesthetics to his famous polemic, Reflections on the Revolution in France. It also examines the vexed question of Burke's Irishness and seeks to determine how his cultural origins may have influenced his political views. Finally, it aims both to explain and to challenge interpretations of Burke as a romantic, a utilitarian, a natural law thinker and founding father of modern conservatism.