The age of enlightenment - 18th century philosophers pdf

New American Library | 1960 | Pdf | Eng | 282 pag | 42.6 MB

By Isaiah Berlin

THE PHILOSOPHY of the 18th century begins with a systematic effort to apply to the study of man those methods which Newton had so triumphantly applied to nature. The editor of this volume, Isaiah Berlin, traces the development of the influence of scientific thought through the writings of the great philosophers and popularizers whose work remains the foundation of liberal humanism and rationalism in the West.

Berlin's selections, and his penetrating introduction and interpretive commentary, shed light upon the philosophy of Locke, Berkeley, Voltaire, Hume, Reid, Condillac, and their German critics