The mind of God and the works of man / Edward Craig.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Craig, Edward, 1942- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 353 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon, [1987]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Craig surveys the history of modern thought and argues that it is dominated by two pictures of man. One portrays human beings as made in the image of God; the other sees us as autonomous creators of our own environment and values.

Contents:

1 The Mind of God

1. The Image of God

2. Insight and Freedom: Galileo and Descartes

3. Fixing the Shape of the Likeness

4. Intelligible Causes

5. Spinoza: A Part of the Infinite Intellect

6. Leibniz: Children of God's House

7. Malebranche-and Many More

2 One Way to Read Hume

1. Hume's Target

2. How Not to Criticise Hume

3. Thinking, Believing and Being: the Hunt for Causes

4. Thinking, Believing and Being: the Two Definitions

5. Thinking, Believing and Being: the Mind

6. Hume's Heirs?

3 The Metaphysic of the Romantic Era

1. Philosophy in Different Dress

2. Spirits of Stream and Woodland-and the Root of All Bad Dancing

3. The Aesthetic Education of Man

4. Pantheism, Dialectic-and again the Image of God

5. Hyperion

4 One Way to Read Hegel

1. A Child of His Time

2. Hegel's Response to Scepticism

3. The Thing-in-Itself

4. The Works of Reason, and of Man

5. Sense-Certainty and the Active Mind

6. Why all the Fuss?

5 The Works of Man

1. A Change of Focus: Doing

2. Good Odds on God-and Making the World Yourself.

3. Engels: Practice and Change

4. American Pragmatism: Creation, Autonomy and the Void

5. Nietzsche: the Will to Power

6 One Way to Read Ourselves

1. The Vienna Circle-A Recalcitrant Experience

2. The Attack on Moral Realism

3. Bad Faith and how to Avoid it-Autonomy Revisited

4. Publicity and Popper

5. Agency and Opacity: Causes and Explanations

6. Agency and Opacity: Knowledge

7. Opacity in the Theory of Meaning-and Doing Things with Words

8. Brave New World.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

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Other Format:

Print version

OCLC:

1336402576