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https://librivox.org/history-of-modern-philosophy-by-alfred-william-benn/
This book is a brief, but cogent discussion of Western philosophy-- from Francis Bacon and Giordano Bruno through Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz, Hume, Berkeley and Kant, the German idealists and Hegel, and ending with such nineteenth century luminaries as Mill, Spencer, and Nietzsche. Enchanted with Copernicus, Bruno goes to the stake for positing an infinity of inhabited worlds. Descartes, a professed skeptic, manages to justify everything the Jesuits taught him at La Flèche, while Spinoza, in mystical awe, envisions a pantheistic cosmos in which thought and extension are one and the same thing--God. The British philosopher, A.W. Benn, presents each thinker biographically and within the context of his philosophical predecessors and contemporaries. (Pamela Nagami, M.D.)
- Text source (only read from this text!): https://archive.org/details/historyofmodernp00benniala/page/n5/mode/2up
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Genres for the project: *Non-fiction/Philosophy/Modern
Keywords that describe the book: Catholicism, Francis Bacon, Spinoza, Arthur Schopenhauer, Aristotle, modern philosophy, theism, Immanuel Kant, David Hume, John Locke, agnosticism, William Godwin, Charles Darwin, Bishop Berkeley, Henri Bergson, Giordano Bruno, Calvinism, Auguste Comte, René Descartes, d'Holbach, J.G. Fichte, G.F.W. Hegel, G.W. Leibniz, J.S. Mill, F.W.J. Schelling, Herbert Spencer
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No more than 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning of the recording!
START of recording (Intro):- "Section [number] of History of Modern Philosophy. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox DOT org"
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"History of Modern Philosophy, by Alfred William Benn. [Chapter]"
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