History of Modern Philosophy

About this film

LibriVox recording of History of Modern Philosophy by Alfred William Benn. Read in English by Pamela Nagami 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.) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . M4B Audiobook (138MB)

Directors & creators

Alfred William Benn

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;Catholicism; francis bacon; Spinoza; Arthur Schopenhauer; aristotle; modern philosophy; theism; immanuel kant; David Hume; John Locke; agnosticism; william godwin; charles darwin; bishop berkeley; henri bergaon; giordano bruno; calvinsim; auguste comte; rene 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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