Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

Acknowledgments

pp ix-x

Introduction

pp 1-10

PART ONE - THE MATTER-BASED PHILOSOPHY OF THE BRITISH TRADITION

pp 11-12

1 - Hobbes on Morality and the Modern Science of Motion

pp 13-39

2 - Freedom as the Realization of Desire

pp 40-69

3 - Leviathan: The Making of a Mortal God

pp 70-105

4 - John Locke: Underlaborer of the New Sciences

pp 106-158

5 - Locke on the Freedom of the Human Spirit

pp 159-203

6 - From Berkeley to Hume: The Radicalization of Empiricism

pp 204-232

7 - Hume's Science of the Dynamics of the Passions

pp 233-265

8 - Adam Smith Deciphers the Invisible Hand of the Market

pp 266-283

9 - Contradictions of Economic Life

pp 284-314

PART TWO - THE SPIRIT-BASED PHILOSOPHY OF THE EUROPEAN CONTINENT

pp 315-316

10 - I Think: Descartes’ Foundation of Modern Science

pp 317-335

11 - God and the Good Society

pp 336-375

12 - Leibniz's Discovery of Universal Freedom

pp 376-405

13 - The Best of All Possible Worlds

pp 406-442

14 - Justifying God's Ways: Kant's Progress from Leibniz through Pope to Rousseau

pp 443-466

15 - Rousseau's Reasoning of the Heart

pp 467-512

Notes

pp 513-554

Selected Bibliography

pp 555-560

Index

pp 561-574