The System of Nature: Volume 1

ISBN-13: 9780367244972 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 372 str.

Paul Henri Thiery

Opis

Originally published in 1984. Paul Henri Thiery, Baron d'Holbach (1723-1789), was the center of the radical wing of the philosophers, best known for The System of Nature (1770) and deservedly, since it is a clear exposition of his main ideas. This is the first of three volumes.

Spis treści

Preface. Part I: Laws of Nature.—Of man.—The faculties of the soul.—Doctrine of immortality.—On happiness. Chapter 1: Nature and her laws. Chapter 2: Of motion and its origin. Chapter 3: Of matter—of its various combinations—of its diversified motion—or of the course of Nature. Chapter 4: Laws of motion common to every being of Nature—attraction and repulsion—inert force—necessity. Chapter 5: Order and confusion—intelligence—chance. Chapter 6: Moral and physical distinctions of man—his origin. Chapter 7: The soul and the spiritual system. Chapter 8: The intellectual faculties derived from the faculty of feeling. Chapter 9: The diversity of the intellectual faculties; they depend on physical causes, as do their moral qualities.—The natural principles of society—morals—politics. Chapter 10: The soul does not derive its ideas from itself—it has no innate ideas. Chapter 11: Of the system of man’s free-agency. Chapter 12: An examination of the opinion which pretends that the system of fatalism is dangerous. Chapter 13: Of the immortality of the soul—of the doctrine of a future state—of the fear of death. Chapter 14: Education, morals, and the laws suffice to restrain man—of the desire of immortality—of suicide.

O autorze

Paul Henri Thiery