A Beginner's History of Philosophy, Vol. 2: Modern PhilosophyCushman, Herbert Ernest
Philosophy
A Beginner's History of Philosophy, Vol. 2: Modern Philosophy
Cushman, Herbert Ernest
Philosophy -- History
Knutzen, Martin, teacher of Kant, 234.
Latin,
before and in the Renaissance, 10–12.
Leibnitz, G. W. von,
31;
as the finisher of the Renaissance and the forerunner of the
Enlightenment, 107, 108;
life and writings of, 108–112;
his early classical studies, 112, 113;
the new science and his discoveries, 113, 114;
influenced by political pressure for religious reconciliation,
114, 115;
the method of, 115–118;
the immediate problem for (that of reconciling science and
religion), 118, 119;
the result of his examination of the principles of science, a
plurality of metaphysical substances, 119–122;
his examination of the scientific conception of motion, 119, 120;
his examination of the scientific conception of the atom, 120, 121;
his theory of monadology, 121;
the double nature of his monads, 122–125;
the two forms of his conception of the unity of the substances,
125;
the intrinsic (philosophical) unity of his monads, 125–129;
the superimposed (theological) unity of his monads, 129–131;
his toleration compared with that of Locke, 151;
his philosophy, a source of the German Enlightenment, 220–223;
his philosophy developed and transformed by Wolff and Thomasius,
221–223;
Lessing and Herder as interpreters of, 228;
appears, through Lessing, as a motive power in German
Enlightenment, 229.
Leibnitz-Wolffian philosophy,
221–223, 231;
influenced Kant, 233, 234.
Lessing, G. E.,
and Spinoza, connection of, 85;
helped save Germany from a political revolution, 226–228;
gave the death-blow to pedantic absolutism, 228;
German literature begins with, 228;
as interpreter of Leibnitz, 228;
his philosophy, 229.
Life,
in Leibnitz’s philosophy, 128.
Locke, John,
his _Essay on the Human Understanding_ marks the transition from
the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, 2–4;
his general position in the history of philosophy, 145–147;
his life and writings, 147–150;
the sources of his thought, 150–153;
his Puritan ancestry, 150;
his training in tolerance, 150, 151;
the scientific influence on, 151, 152;
the political influence on, 152, 153;
the purpose of, 153–155;
two sides of his philosophy, 155–158;
and scholasticism, 156, 157;
his psychology, 157–160;
his epistemology, 155, 156, 158, 160–162;
his practical philosophy, 162, 163;
the influence of, 163, 164;
general relation of Berkeley to, 174, 175;
Berkeley’s points of agreement with, 175, 176.
Logic,
in the latter part of the Middle Ages, studied for its own sake, 4;
in Hegel’s philosophy, 323, 328.
London,
new religious centre in the Renaissance, 12;
becomes an intellectual centre about the time of the publication
of Locke’s _Essay_, 206.
Lotze, R. H.,
359.
Louis XIV, French King,
203.
Louis XV, French King,
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