Atheism in France, 1650-1729, Volume I : : The Orthodox Sources of Disbelief / / Alan Charles Kors.

Although most historians have sought the roots of atheism in the history of "free thought," Alan Charles Kors contends that attacks on the existence of God were generated above all by the vitality and controversies of orthodox theistic culture itself. In this first volume of a planned two-...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1990
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 1054
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Physical Description:1 online resource (410 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction. Intellectual History and the History of Atheism
  • PART ONE: Atheists without Atheism; Atheism without Atheists
  • CHAPTER ONE. Atheists without Atheism
  • CHAPTER TWO. Thinking about the Unthinkable
  • CHAPTER THREE. Atheism without Atheists
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Before Belief: Philosophy and Preamble
  • PART TWO: Other Peoples and Other Minds: Thinking about Universal Consent
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Other Peoples
  • CHAPTER SIX. The Ancients
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. The History of Philosophy
  • PART THREE: The Fratricide
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. The Great Contest
  • CHAPTER NINE. The Assault on Cartesian Proofs of God
  • CHAPTER TEN. The Assault on Proofs from the Sensible World
  • CHAPTER ELEVEN. Malebranche; the Firestorm; the Toll
  • Index