A History Of Philosophy, Vol. 7 by Frederick Charles Copleston

This volume offers a lucid, historically grounded survey of a crucial phase in modern thought, carefully expounding the central doctrines and arguments of the period’s leading figures, situating their ideas in social and theological context, and evaluating their contributions to problems in metaphysics, epistemology and ethics. Combining detailed textual analysis with balanced critical commentary, it traces how competing approaches—especially rationalist and empiricist tendencies—shaped debates about substance, causation, knowledge and God, and shows how those debates set the stage for subsequent developments in philosophy.