Modern Enlightenment and the Rule of Reason

edited by John C. McCarthy
Catholic University of America Press, 2018
Paper: 978-0-8132-3052-8, eISBN: 978-0-8132-3053-5

ABOUT THIS BOOK
The essays in this volume pose the question common usage has obscured: was "the Enlightenment" truly enlightened or enlightening? Scholarly investigation has sometimes avoided the question by confining itself to historical particulars of 18th-century Euro
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Introduction
1. Alan Charles Kors / Just and Arbitrary Authority in Enlightenment Thought
2. Richard Kennington / Bacon's Reform of Nature
3. Pamela Kraus / Method and Metaphysics: The Foundation of Philosophy in the Discourse on Method
4. Robert P. Kraynak / Hobbes and the Dogmatism of the Enlightenment
5. John C. Mccarthy / Pascal on Certainty and Utility
6. Paul J. Bagley / Spinoza, Biblical Criticism, and the Enlightenment
7. Philippe Raynaud / Leibniz, Reason; and Evil
8. F. J. Crosson / Hume's Unnatural Religion (Some Humean Footnotes)
9. Terence E. Marshall / Poetry and Praxis in Rousseau's Emile: Human Rights and the Sentiment of Humanity
10. Kenneth L. Schmitz / Lessing at God's Left Hand
11. John R. Silber / Kant and the Mythic Roots of Morality
12. Nicholas Capaldi / The Enlightenment Project in Twentieth-Century Philosophy
Contributors
Bibliography
Index

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