Jonathan Edwards and the Limits of Enlightenment Philosophy

by Leon Chai

Overview

Jonathan Edwards has most often been considered in the context of the Puritanism of New England. In many ways, however, he was closer to the thinkers of the European Enlightenment. In this book. Leon Chai explores that connection, analyzing Edwards' thought in light of a number of the issues that preoccupied such Enlightenment figures as Locke, Descartes, Malebranche, and Leibniz. The book comprises three parts, each of which begins with a detailed analysis of a crucial passage from a classic Enlightenment text, and then turns to a major theological work of Jonathan Edwards' in which the same issue is explored.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195353112
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/23/1998
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	285 KB

Table of Contents

Introductory		3	(6)
I. The Problem of Sensation		9	(30)
1 The Argument for Empiricism		9	(13)
2 Religious Affections		22	(17)
II. Ideas, Objects, Mind		39	(36)
3 Idea and Object		39	(17)
4 Idealism		56	(19)
III. The Ends of Causal Analysis		75	(39)
5 Causation		75	(19)
6 Freedom of the Will		94	(20)
Conclusion		114	(3)
Epilogue		117	(4)
Notes		121	(38)
Primary Sources		159	(2)
Index		161