This edited volume presents a general account of the concept of 'mental power' in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, focusing on the issue of how a sample of influential thinkers of that period analyzed, described, and conceived the human agent's mental abilities and skills as governing perception, action and moral behavior.
This edited volume presents a general account of the concept of 'mental power' in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, focusing on the issue of how a sample of influential thinkers of that period analyzed, described, and conceived the human agent's mental abilities and skills as governing perception, action and moral behavior.
Federico Boccaccini is Senior Research Fellow of the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) at the Department of Philosophy of the Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil. Anna Marmodoro is Leonard and Elizabeth Eslick Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University, USA, and concomitantly Honorary Professor of Philosophy at Durham University, UK.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction - Mental Powers. From Descartes to Kant. 1. Descartes: new thoughts on the senses. 2. Salving the phenomena of mind: energy, hegemonikon, and sympathy in Cudworth. 3. Locke on attention. 4. Consciousness, ideas of ideas and animation in Spinoza's Ethics. 5. Substance and force: or why it matters what we think. 6. A powerless conscience: Hume on reflection and acting conscientiously. 7. Kant on the spontaneous power of the mind. 8. Kant on the faculty of apperception.
Introduction - Mental Powers. From Descartes to Kant. 1. Descartes: new thoughts on the senses. 2. Salving the phenomena of mind: energy, hegemonikon, and sympathy in Cudworth. 3. Locke on attention. 4. Consciousness, ideas of ideas and animation in Spinoza's Ethics. 5. Substance and force: or why it matters what we think. 6. A powerless conscience: Hume on reflection and acting conscientiously. 7. Kant on the spontaneous power of the mind. 8. Kant on the faculty of apperception.
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