San Antonio College Library

This book includes fifty-six selections from many countries, including France, England, Scotland, the German and Italian states, the American colonies, and Russia.

Presents commentaries on, and selections from, the basic writings of the brilliant philosophers Berkeley, Locke, Hume and others -- men who believed that science's achievements in the material world could be translated into philosophical terms. The challenging ideas of these great thinkers -- and their equally great critics -- remain the classical foundation of liberal humanism and rationalism in the West, so unparalleled for their lucidity, courage,...

This is the first clear and comprehensive introduction to the philosophers of the Enlightenment. Nine contemporary specialists lead the student gently through Enlightenment thought by looking at the lives and writings of individual philosophers, such as Liebniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Reid, Kant, Voltaire and Fourier. This is an introduction to a complex subject which should become recommended reading for students of philosophy from school to university...

"Lectures delivered in the School of law in Yale university on the Storrs foundation ... April, 1931"--Preface. "Published on the Mary Cady Tew memorial fund."--1st prelim. leaf.

Turner's lectures "distilled modern European history from the Enlightenment to the dawn of twentieth century and conveyed the turbulence of a rapidly changing era in European history through its ideas and leading figures."--Jacket.

"In Samuel Johnson and the Making of Modern England Nicholas Hudson argues that Johnson not only came to personify English cultural identity but did much to shape it. Hudson examines his contribution to the creation of the modern English identity, approaching Johnson's writing and conversation from scarcely explored directions of cultural criticism - class politics, feminism, party politics, the public sphere, nationalism, and imperialism. Hudson...