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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      30 July 2009
      13 August 2001
      ISBN:
      9780511498244
      9780521806121
      9780521039789
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511498244
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.458kg, 240 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.366kg, 240 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, History, Philosophy, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
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    Kant believed that true enlightenment is the use of reason freely in public. This book systematicaaly traces the philosophical origins and development of the idea that the improvement of human understanding requires public activity. Michael Losonsky focuses on seventeenth-century discussions of the problem of irresolution and the closely connected theme of the role of volition in human belief formation. This involves a discussion of the work of Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Spinoza and Leibniz. Challenging the traditional views of seventeenth-century philosophy and written in a lucid, non-technical language, this book will be eagerly sought out by historians of philosophy and students of the history of ideas.

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    ‘… a deep and carefully argued account of the relationships between volition, emotion and cognition in important seventeenth-century texts … Losonsky has given us an empowering book …’

    Source: British Journal for the History of Philosophy

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