Third Force in Seventeenth-Century Thought (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History)

This volume contains 22 articles by Richard H. Popkin on the history of modern philosophy written between 1980 and 1990. Several of these essays have not been published before. The topics covered range over religious and theological influences in modern philosophy; further material in the history of scepticism dealing with Hobbes, Henry More, and Pascal, and Moritz Schlick; and new findings about Spinoza, pre-Adamism, Ralph Cudworth, Isaac Newton's religious views, 18th-century racism, and the liberalism of Condorcet. This volume covers most areas of Popkin's interests, and shows some of his chief findings and interpretations developed over the last decade.