Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part One. The Matter-Based Philosophy of the British Tradition
6. Chapter One. Hobbes on Morality and the Modern Science of Motion 13
7. Chapter Two. Freedom as the Realization of Desire 40
8. Chapter three. Leviathan: The Making of a Mortal God 70
9. Chapter Four. John Locke: Underlaborer of the New Sciences 106
10. Chapter Five. Locke on the Freedom of the Human Spirit 159
11. Chapter Six. From Berkeley to Hume: The Radicalization of Empiricism 204
12. Chapter Seven. Hume’s Science of the Dynamics of the Passions 233
13. Chapter Eight. Adam Smith Deciphers the Invisible Hand of the Market 266
14. Chapter Nine. Contradictions of Economic Life 284
15. Part Two. The Spirit-Based Philosophy of the European Continent
16. Chapter Ten. I Think: Descartes’ Foundation of Modern Science 317
17. Chapter Eleven. God and the Good Society 336
18. Chapter Twelve. Leibniz’s Discovery of Universal Freedom 376
19. Chapter Thirteen. The Best of All Possible Worlds 406
20. Chapter Fourteen. Justifying God’s Ways: Kant’s Progress from Leibniz through Pope to Rousseau 443
21. Chapter Fifteen. Rousseau’s Reasoning of the Heart 467
22. Notes 513
23. Selected Bibliography 555
24. Index 561