Product Description: Many of the seemingly bland assertions and bald statements of the eighteenth-century philosopher David Hume contain more than the mind immediately perceives. Author John Valdimir Price contends that an understanding of Hume's writings cannot be separated from an understanding of his life...read more

Explores the nature and historical development of philosophical thought in Britain in a century that boasted great intellectual richness. This Dictionary covers the major fields of philosophical activity and includes authors who wrote on subjects including aesthetics, literary theory, mathematics, philosophy, science, sociology and theology.

Product Description: As a unique collection of eighteenth-century sources of the aesthetics of music, this set provides fascinating insights into subjects such as the art of music, the art of singing and the teaching of music during that period. It also includes lavish music plates and in-text music illustrations...read more

Product Description: Aesthetics, established as an independent philosophical discipline in the eighteenth century, is often overlooked in the nineteenth century until such later writers as Bosanquet, Santayana, Collingwood and Wittgenstein helped bring it back into the philosophical mainstream...read more

Product Description: Chandler produced numerous biblically-based attacks on the deists and a large number of sermons both individual and collected. In Reflections he attacks the deists and anyone who doubted the truth of revealed religion.

Product Description: A book to which historians of ideas, philosophers and theologians have turned and returned in the 270 years since its publication. It provoked, in the the first ten years, over 150 replies, from sermons and pamphlets to learned theological treatises and scholarly analyses...read more

Product Description: One of the earliest contributions to the controversies about deism, A Letter to the Deists outlines Prideaux's belief that deism is the foundation of any religious belief, which set him apart from those writers who believed that deism led to atheism...read more

Product Description: Deism was often synonymous with 'natural religion' (as distinct from 'revealed religion') in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; it meant belief in a God, but not in any particular mystical or supernatural powers. The word itself was probably coined in the middle of the sixteenth century in France, but the concept began to emerge in British theology in the seventeenth century, most notably in De Veritate (1624) by Lord (Edward) Herbert of Cherbury...read more

Product Description: Writings about art and creativity can be traced to the texts of classical antiquity, but aesthetics as a separate and systematic area of philosophy is almost wholly a product of the eighteenth century. It was at that time that philosophers began to treat notions about creativity and our responses to it with the kind of philosophical rigour found in epistemology and metaphysics...read more

Product Description: Book by Price, John Valdimir