Published in 2019
7 hours and 46 minutes
Jane O’Grady is one of the founders of the London School of Philosophy, and was a Visiting Lecturer and Honorary Fellow at City University. She has taught at the Freud Museum, for the How To Academy and given extra-mural courses at Birkbeck. She co-edited Blackwell’s Dictionary of Philosophical Quotations with A. J. Ayer, has several entries in the Oxford Companion to Philosophy, and has written introductions to Mill’s On Liberty and The Subjection of Women, as well as several introductions for Plato’s dialogues. She is the philosophy obituarist for the Guardian and she also reviews for the Telegraph, the Literary Review, the Financial Times and the Times Higher Education Supplement.
What is this book about?
From Descartes’ famous line “I think, therefore I am” to Kant’s fascinating discussions of morality, the thinkers of the Enlightenment have helped to shape the modern world. Addressing such important subjects as the foundations of knowledge and the role of ethics, the theories of these philosophers continue to have great relevance to our lives.
Ranging across Enlightenment thinking from Berkeley to Rousseau, Enlightenment Philosophy in a Nutshell explains important ideas such as Locke’s ideas of primary and secondary qualities, Kant’s moral rationalism, and Hume’s inductive reasoning.
Filled with simple summaries of complex theories, this essential introduction brings the great ideas of the past to everyone.
ABOUT THE SERIES: The Knowledge in a Nutshell series provides engaging introductions to many fields of knowledge, including philosophy, psychology, and physics, and the ways in which humankind has sought to make sense of our world.
