Author: Leyden, W. von
Title: Seventeenth-Century Metaphysics. An Examination of Some Main Concepts & Theories
Description: London, Gerald Duckworth, (1968). orig.cloth. 22x14cm, xvi, 316 pp. Corner bump, some minor rubbing, VG. ¶ Contents: Main Trends in 17th-Century Philosophy: Descartes & the Rationalist Metaphysicians; Gassendi & the Rise of British Empiricism. The Cambridge Platonists; Certainty & Doubt: Rationalism & Empiricism; The Notion of Relativity & Montaigne's Attitude of Doubt; Descarte's Systematic Doubt & its Relation to his Method in Metaphysics; Substance: Cogito Ergo Sum: Performatory or Trivial? The Concept of Self; Material Substance; Essences & Individuals: Locke's Doctrine of Real & Nominal Essences; Leibniz's System of Monads: Human Freedom & the Principle of Individuation; The Mind-Body Problem & the Concept of Causality: Spinoza & the Double-Aspect Theory; Efficient Causation & the Denial of Purposes: The Question of the Demonstrability of the Causal Relation; Space & Time: Concepts of Absolute Space & Time; Concepts of Relative Space & Time.

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