The System of Nature: Volume 2

ISBN-13: 9780367245009 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 312 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 second of three volumes.

Spis treści

Part I (contd): Laws of Nature.—Of man.—The faculties of the soul.—Doctrine of immortality.—On happiness. Chapter 15: Of man’s true interest, or of the ideas he forms to himself of happiness.—Man cannot be happy without virtue. Chapter 16: The errors of man.—Upon what constitutes happiness.—The true source of his evils.—Remedies that may be applied. Chapter 17: Those ideas which are true, or founded upon Nature, are the only remedies for the evil of man.—Recapitulation.—Conclusion of the First Part. Part II: On the Divinity.—Proofs of his existence.—Of his attributes.—Of his influence over the happiness of man. Chapter 1: The origin of man’s ideas upon the Divinity. Chapter 2: Of mythology.—Of theology. Chapter 3: Of the confused and contradictory ideas of theology. Chapter 4: Examination of the proofs of the existence of the Divinity, as given by Clarke. Chapter 5: Examination of the proofs offered by Descartes, Male-Branche, Newton. Chapter 6: Of Pantheism; or of the natural ideas of the Divinity.

O autorze

Paul Henri Thiery