18th century in philosophy

This is a timeline of the 18th century in philosophy

Events

  • The Age of Enlightenment

Publications

  • The Lives of the Ancient Philosophers (London, 1702)[1]
  • Mary Astell, Moderation Truly Stated (London, 1704)[2]
  • Giambattista Vico, The New Science (1725)
  • David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-1740)[3]

Births

  • Jonathan Edwards was born in 1703.[4]
  • 2 April 1725 - Giacomo Casanova (died 1798)

Deaths

  • John Locke died in 1704.[5]

See also

References

  • Aaron Garrett. The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth Century Philosophy. Routledge. London and New York. 2014. Google Books
  • Knud Haakonssen (ed). The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy. Cambridge University Press. 2006. Volume 1.
  • Lewis White Beck (ed). Eighteenth-Century Philosophy. (Readings in the History of Philosophy). The Free Press. 1966. [1]
  • Jing-Xing Huang and C S Huang. Philosophy, Philology, and Politics in Eighteenth-Century China. Cambridge University Press. 1995. First paperback edition. 2002. Google Books.
  1. ^ For a scan of this book, see Google Books. For commentary, see Constance W T Blackwell (general editor, English Edition), Giovanni Santinello (ed), Models of the History of Philosophy, Springer Science+Business Media, 1993, pp 169 & 198.
  2. ^ Jacqueline Broad. The Philosophy of Mary Astell: An Early Modern Theory of Virtue. Oxford University Press. 2015. Chapter 8. Page 149. For a scan of "Moderation Truly Stated", see Google Books.
  3. ^ Penguin Random House
  4. ^ Friedrich Ueberweg. History of Philosophy: From Thales to the Present Time. Scribner, Armstrong & Co. New York. 1876. Volume 2. Page 443.
  5. ^ John Locke (1632–1704): Political Theorist, Philosopher, Physician, Polymath. Durham University Library. 1990. Google Books