Author: HelvétiusPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
De l'Esprit: or, essays on the mind, and its several faculties ... Translated from the edition printed under the author's inspection
Author: HelvétiusDe L'esprit, Or, Essays on the Mind, and Its Several Faculties
Author: HelvétiusDe l'Esprit: or, Essays on the Mind, and its several faculties. ... Translated from the French. To which are now prefixed, a life of the author, and prefatory strictures upon the work, by William Mudford
Author: HelvétiusDe l'esprit; or, Essays on the mind, and its several faculties. Transl. To which are prefixed, a life and portrait of the author
Author: Claude Adrien HelvétiusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind
Author: George MakariPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393248690
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 547
Book Description
A brilliant and comprehensive history of the creation of the modern Western mind. Soul Machine takes us back to the origins of modernity, a time when a crisis in religious authority and the scientific revolution led to searching questions about the nature of human inner life. This is the story of how a new concept—the mind—emerged as a potential solution, one that was part soul and part machine, but fully neither. In this groundbreaking work, award-winning historian George Makari shows how writers, philosophers, physicians, and anatomists worked to construct notions of the mind as not an ethereal thing, but a natural one. From the ascent of Oliver Cromwell to the fall of Napoleon, seminal thinkers like Hobbes, Locke, Diderot, and Kant worked alongside often-forgotten brain specialists, physiologists, and alienists in the hopes of mapping the inner world. Conducted in a cauldron of political turmoil, these frequently shocking, always embattled efforts would give rise to psychiatry, mind sciences such as phrenology, and radically new visions of the self. Further, they would be crucial to the establishment of secular ethics and political liberalism. Boldly original, wide-ranging, and brilliantly synthetic, Soul Machine gives us a masterful, new account of the making of the modern Western mind.
De L'esprit, Or, Essays on the Mind, and Its Several Faculties
Author: HelvétiusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The Ethics of Epicurus and its Relation to Contemporary Doctrines
Author: Jean-Marie GuyauPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350013927
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
This is the first English translation of a compelling and highly original reading of Epicurus by Jean-Marie Guyau. This book has long been recognized as one of the best and most concerted attempts to explore one of the most important, yet controversial ancient philosophers whose thought, Guyau claims, remains vital to modern and contemporary culture. Throughout the text we are introduced to the origins of the philosophy of pleasure in Ancient Greece, with Guyau clearly demonstrating how this idea persists through the history of philosophy and how it is an essential trait in the Western tradition. With an introduction by Keith Ansell-Pearson and Federico Testa, which contextualizes the work of Guyau within the canon of French thought, and notes on both further reading and on Epicurean scholarship more generally, this translation also acts as a critical introduction to the philosophy of Guyau and Epicurus.
A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia: Religion
Author: A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia
Author: Library Company of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1106
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Books, Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia, with an Account of the Institution, Charters, Laws and Regulations
Author: Library Company of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description