9781536163575 : 1536163570 : The System of Nature. Volume 1 : Hardback

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The System of Nature. Volume 1

Sub-title:

Volume 1

By (author):

Paul Henri Thiery

ISBN10-13:

1536163570 : 9781536163575

Format:

Hardback

Size:

1x1mm

Pages:

250

Weight:

.614 Kg.

Published:

Nova Science Publishers, Inc - September 2019

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203.99 Pounds Sterling

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Subjects:

Philosophy : Philosophy of religion

The System of Nature is a 2 volume book on philosophy written by Paul-Henri Thiry in 1770 and published in French. Most importantly, the author denies the existence of God, arguing that belief in a higher being is the product of fear, lack of understanding, and anthropomorphism. It is the most comprehensive description of Atheism in the history of philosophy.

Table of Contents:

Preface

Introduction

Nature and her laws

Of motion and its origin

Of matter -- of its various combinations -- of its diversified motion -- or of the course of Nature

Laws of motion common to every being of Nature -- attraction and repulsion -- inert force-necessity

Order and confusion -- intelligence -- chance

Moral and physical distinctions of man -- his origin

The soul and the spiritual system

The intellectual faculties derived from the faculty of feeling

The diversity of the intellectual faculties

they depend on physical causes, as do their moral qualities -- The natural principles of society -- morals -- politics

The soul does not derive its ideas from itself -- it has no innate ideas

Of the system of man's free-agency

An examination of the opinion which pretends that the system of fatalism is dangerous

Of the immortality of the soul -- of the doctrine of a future state -- of the fear of death

Education, morals, and the laws suffice to restrain man -- of the desire of immortality -- of suicide

Of man's true interest, or of the ideas he forms to himself of happiness -- Man cannot be happy without virtue

The errors of man -- Upon what constitutes happiness -- The true source of his evils -- Remedies that may be applied

Those ideas which are true, or founded upon Nature, are the only remedies for the evil of man -- Recapitulation -- Conclusions of the First Part

Index.

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