Bennett, Jonathan. Learning From Six Philosophers: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume.(Book Review)

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BENNETT, Jonathan. Learning From Six Philosophers: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001. 420 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $29.95--Claiming to learn something from a philosopher can be fraught with difficulty. I may dispute your claim that Descartes taught you the tenability of voluntarism because I dispute the tenability of Descartes's voluntarism: I just don't think it is there to be learned. The idea of learning from a philosopher becomes even more charged given that what one learns is in some sense relative to what one already ...

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