By Knud Haakonssen
Greater than thirty eminent students from 9 assorted international locations have contributed to The Cambridge historical past of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy - the main finished and updated background of the topic to be had in English. For the eighteenth century the dominant suggestion in philosophy was once human nature and so it's round this idea that the paintings is established. this enables the members to provide either distinctive explorations of the epistemological, metaphysical and moral issues that proceed to face on the vanguard of philosophy, and to voice a serious angle to the historiography in the back of this emphasis in philosophical concept. even as there's due sensitivity to old context with specific emphasis at the connections among philosophy, technological know-how, and theology. This judiciously balanced, systematic, and finished account of the total of Western philosophy within the interval should be a useful source for philosophers, highbrow historians, theologians, political theorists, historians of technology and literary students. 
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