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![]() Free Download Daniel Whistler, "Francois Hemsterhuis and the Writing of Philosophy" English | ISBN: 1399509829 | 2022 | 312 pages | PDF | 1428 KB François Hemsterhuis (1721-1790) was the most significant Dutch philosopher after Spinoza. Daniel Whistler argues that Hemsterhuis' philosophy matters and that its exclusion from the canon of modern philosophy has been unjust. This is not just because of its reception history - its influence on later German thinkers, such as Goethe, Hamann, Hegel, Herder, Hölderlin, Jean Paul, Kant, Jacobi, Novalis, Schelling, the Schlegels, Schleiermacher, Wieland - but is primarily because Hemsterhuis' philosophy contains a rich assemblage of ideas and philosophical practices. ![]() Free Download Foundations of Interprofessional Health Education: An Ecological Theory by C. 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