The Faith of Reason : : The Idea of Progress in the French Enlightenment / / Charles Frankel.
A study of the evolution and relevant social context of philosophical ideas on progress, science, nature, and metaphysical faith of reason. Specifically examines the views on progress of Descartes and Pascal in the seventeenth century, the views and influences of French philosophers during the eight...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1948] ©1948 |
| Year of Publication: | 1948 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Introduction
- I. The Philosophic Century
- II. The New Method of Philosophy
- III. The Experimental Physics of the Soul
- IV. Philosophy and Physics
- V. The Insane Idea of Becoming Wholly Reasonable
- VI. The Reign of Reason and Truth
- VII. Custom and Nature
- A Summing Up
- Selected Bibliography
- Index