Verlag: HardPress Publishing, 2019
ISBN 10: 1314988654 ISBN 13: 9781314988659
Anbieter: Buchpark, Trebbin, Deutschland
Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut - Gepflegter, sauberer Zustand. | Seiten: 262 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher.
Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC Jul 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 1021389307 ISBN 13: 9781021389305
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.
Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC Aug 2024, 2024
ISBN 10: 1019599855 ISBN 13: 9781019599853
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Written in the late 18th century, this book is a critique of materialism and the philosopher David Hartley's theory of the human mind. Berington argues that there is more to the human experience than can be explained by physical processes, and that there is a spiritual dimension to the mind.
Verlag: LondonPrinted for J. Johnson ., 1777
Anbieter: Robert Frew Ltd. ABA ILAB, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Erstausgabe
FIRST EDITION. 2 works bound in one volume. 8vo. (20.5 x 13 cm). pp.xxxix+[2, errata, explanation of frontispiece]*+356 (lacking the adverts); xxxii+206. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards sometime rebacked preserving original spine, spine ruled and lettered in gilt. *Lacking the frontispiece to Disquisitions Relating to Matter and Spirit. Old bookplate with pencil inscription to front pastedown. Binding scuffed, top edge darkened, light toning and occasional light spotting. Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) was an English chemist, natural philosopher, theologian, grammarian, polymath, and liberal political theorist who published over 150 works. He has historically been credited with the independent discovery of oxygen in 1774 by the thermal decomposition of mercuric oxide. The present work is one Priestley's principal metaphysical works, written as an elucidation and defence of his monist materialism and ideas on the unity of body and soul. Deeply controversial in its time, Priestley's Disquisitions contains a refutation of Cartesian dualism as erroneous insofar mind and spirit are actually part of material being, presenting matter as capable of thought and perception and dismissing the existence of a nonphysical soul. Despite widespread charges of atheism, Priestley saw matter as the manifestation of spiritual force and determinism as an active acceptance of causality in the will of God (ODNB).
Verlag: London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1777
Anbieter: Forest Books, ABA-ILAB, Grantham, LINCS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Erstausgabe
First edition, 8vo (210 x 125 mm), xxxiv, [2], 206, [2] pp., with half-title, errata leaf between the preliminaries and text, and a catalogue of Priestley's works at the end, blind-stamp on first 3 leaves, some occasional light browning of the text, cont. calf, rubbed and worn, upper cover detached. Crook, PM/360.