The Career of Philosophy, Vol. 2: From the German Enlightenment to the Age of Darwin
by John Herman Randall
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- Turning from the development of Newtonian rationalism and its correlative critical empiricism in England and France to German philosophy, which grew into open rebellion against the whole scientific ideal of the Enlightenment,... (show all) and brought back to the forefront of attention the world of values, of life and humanity, which scientific thought had been making unintelligible even as it provided a method to serve them, we encounter Leibniz, the first great German philosopher since the Renaissance.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)The third and concluding volume of the Career of Philosophy will recount these exciting philosophical movements in The Hundred Years since Darwin.
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- Philosophy, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, History
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- 190.9 — Philosophy & psychology Modern western philosophy Modern western and other noneastern philosophy Biography; Enlightenment - History By Place
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- B791 .R25 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Philosophy (General) By period Modern
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