History of Philosophy in the 17th and 18th Centuries |
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| Descartes 1 |
Key Texts
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| Descartes 2 |
Descartes: Discourse on Method Section
4 Descartes: Meditations Mediations 2 & 3 Cottingham: The Rationalists, pp. 78-84. |
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| Descartes 3 |
Descartes: Meditations Meditation 2 Descartes: Objections and Replies, On Meditation 6. Cottingham ed. pp.143-150. The Rationalists, Chapter 4. |
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| Descartes 4 |
Descartes: Principles of Philosophy Part 2 (Cottingham ed. pp.189-199). |
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Locke 1 |
All Locke readings from An Essay Concerning
Human Understanding. BOOK I. OF INNATE NOTIONS I Introduction II No Innate Principles in the Mind III No Innate Practical Principles IV Other Considerations concerning Innate Principles |
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Locke 2 |
BOOK II. OF IDEAS |
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| Locke 3 |
BOOK II. OF IDEAS VIII Some. Farther Considerations concerning Our Simple Ideas XXIII Of Our Complex Ideas of Substances BOOK III. OF WORDS Ill Of General Terms IV Of the Names of Simple Ideas VI Of the Names of Substances |
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Locke 4 |
BOOK II VIII Section 9 |
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Locke 5 |
BOOK II XXVII Para 10 |
| Berkeley 1 |
George Berkeley's A Treatise Concerning The Principles Of Human Knowledge (Begin) |
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| Berkeley 2 |
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George Berkeley's A Treatise Concerning The Principles Of Human Knowledge (Conclude) |
| Hume 1 |
Hume, Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, XII, iii |
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| Hume 2 |
Hume, Enquiry, V, I (Causality) |
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Hume 3 |
Hume, Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Continued |
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| Hume 4 |
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Hume, Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Continued |
| Over the next three weeks: Kant: Critique of Pure Reason. Have a go. I have suggested some extracts focussing on the topics we consider. Scruton: A Short History of Western Philosophy, Ch. 10. |
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| Kant 2 |
Kant: Critique of Pure Reason, The Antinomy of Reason, A426 - 429 / B454 - 457. For those with copies of the Critique which don't include the A and B numbers: Transcendental Doctrine of Elements > Second Division The Trancendental Dialectic >Book II > Chapter II (The Antinomy of Pure Reason) > Section 2 (The Antithetic of Pure Reason) >First Antinomy (First Conflict of the Transcendental Ideas). It's here. |
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| Kant 3 |
Kant: Critique of Pure Reason, Deduction of the Pure Concepts of Understanding (B130-B169) For those with copies of the Critique which don't include the A and B numbers: Transcendental Doctrine of Elements > First Division (Trancendental Analytic) > Book I (Analytic of Concepts) > Chapter II (Deduction of the Pure Concepts of Understanding) > Section 2 (Transcendental Deduction of the Pure Concepts of the Understanding > Subsection 15 The Possibility of Combination in General. Read to end of Subsection 27. It's here. |
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Kant 4 |
Kant: Critique of Pure Reason, The Analytic of Principles, Chapter III, A236 - 260 / B295 - 315. For those with copies of the Critique which don't include the A and B numbers: Transcendental Doctrine of Elements > First Division (Trancendental Analytic) > Book II (Analytic of Principles) > Chapter III (The ground of the Distinction of all Objects in General into Phenomena and Noumena). Read to the end of the chapter. It's here. |
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EXTRA! Introductory presentation on Kant's theory of ethics |
(This is my take on how the metaphysics and epistemology links with the ethics. - V) | |
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Late Extra!! Introductory presentation on Aristotle's Ethics |
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Even later Introductory presentation on Ethical Relativism |
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