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History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century Leslie Stephen

History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century By Leslie Stephen

History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century by Leslie Stephen


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In this two-volume work from 1876, Leslie Stephen (1832-1904) examines the revolution in thought that he believed had occurred in the eighteenth century due to the deist controversy. Volume 1 contains an account of the deism debate and discusses the work of philosophers such as Descartes, Locke and Hume.

History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century Summary

History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century by Leslie Stephen

Leslie Stephen (1832-1904) was a writer, philosopher and literary critic whose work was published widely in the nineteenth century. As a young man Stephen was ordained deacon, but he later became agnostic and much of his work reflects his interest in challenging popular religion. This two-volume work, first published in 1876, is no exception: it focuses on the eighteenth-century deist controversy and its effects, as well as the reactions to what Stephen saw as a revolution in thought. Comprehensive and full of detailed analysis, this is an important work in the history of ideas. Volume 1 contains a thorough discussion of the arguments for and against deism. The debate is placed in a wider philosophical context and the works of Descartes, Locke and Hume are all discussed in detail. The volume concludes with an examination of theological thought at the end of the century.

Table of Contents

Preface; 1. The philosophical basis; 2. The starting-point of deism; 3. Constructive deism; 4. Critical deism; 5. Butler's Analogy; 6. David Hume; 7. William Warburton; 8. The later theology.

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NLS9781108040396
9781108040396
110804039X
History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century by Leslie Stephen
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2011-12-01
488
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