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'Early Modern' thinking about the human being: links to all relevant files

Early modern conception of the human being: Overview:

Lancaster talk

The Scholastic background

The Early Modern conception of a person's body

Earlier draft 021008

Early Modern conception of a person's mind

Locke's Theory of Knowledge

Early Modern notion of Understanding

The human soul in early modernity

The sources of behaviour

Mechanism

Rational behaviour: how reason was thought of as entering into the governance of rational behaviour: John Locke's account

Human behaviour as a set of habits

New thoughts about explanation

Developments that were grounded in or associated with the new conception of the human being

Early Modern conception of 'the self'

Hume notices something isn't there

Kant

Kant's thinking about the mind

Kant's Noumenal Self

Summary: the human being prior to romanticism

 

To be fitted in:

18th Century Consciousness

18th Century Rules

Aquinas topics

Aristotle on Potential

Austen

Bentham twin masters quote

De Sade

Draft 18thC Overview 020106

Draft Dynamic Mind 030106

Dynamic Mind

Draft Romantic Transition 040106

Early Modern Animal

Early Modern Behaviour

Early Modern Body

Early Modern Intro 020106

Early Modern Intro 170506

Early Modern Intro 180806

Early Modern Mind

Fodor on Hume

Habits

Habits and reason

Hume No Self

Hume No Self A

Index Early Modernity

Index Preamble

Index Romantic Transition

Individualism

Introduction

Introduction old

Introspectionism

Kant on Mind

Kant on Mind X

Kant's noumenal self

Lloyd's microcosm argument

Locke's account of Action

Locke's account of Action X

Locke's account of Knowledge

Locke's account of Knowledge X

Locke's account of Reason X

Locke on habits

Misc

Overview

Reynolds on artists' education

Romantic Transition (romantictransition)

Scholastic conception of the human being

Scholastic perspective on action

The Cartesian Mind

Early Modern Philosophy - article draft

Medieval Philosophy - article draft

 

 

 

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Conceptions of the Human Being in the West

 

 

       

Old organisation

     
Early modern theory of action      

The role of the conscious mind

     

Rule-governed behaviour

     

The theory of action presented by John Locke

     

Habits

     

Reason

     
The Scholastic perspective on action