Author: Bernard MandevillePublisher:
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Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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Free Thoughts on Religion, the Church, and National Happiness
Author: Bernard MandevillePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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Free thoughts on religion, the Church, and national happiness, by B.M.
Author: Bernard de MandevillePublisher:
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Free Thoughts on Religion, the Church, and National Happiness
Author: Bernard MandevillePublisher:
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Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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Free Thoughts on Religion, the Church, and National Happiness
Author: Bernard MandevillePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351326627
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Bernard Mandeville was best known for The Fable of the Bees, in which he demolishes the supposed moral basis of society by a Hobbesian demonstration that civilization depends on vice. Today Mandeville is seen as a trenchant satirist of the manners and foibles of his age. He is also seen as a precursor of some of Adam Smith's doctrines, a forerunner in the field of sociology. A prescient analyst of the dynamics of our modern consumer society, Mandeville is author of a striking naturalistic account of the gradual evolution of modern society from its primitive antecedents. His literary signature, in a manner of speaking, is his famous paradox, "private vices, public benefits." This new edition of Free Thoughts is prefaced by a lengthy and informative introduction by Irwin Primer, who recreates not only the literary, political, and religious atmosphere surrounding Mandeville, but also the controversies that surrounded his writing in mid-eighteenth-century England. Primer includes textual notes on the first and second editions of this classic work. To understand Mandeville's Free Thoughts, one needs to situate it within the context of the religious and political controversies, ongoing subversion, fear and dormant warfare of his times. Those would eventually erupt again and for the last time in the bloody Jacobite rebellion of 1745-46. The first five chapters of the book explore religious and theological issues including the nature of belief and knowledge, the significance of rites and ceremonies, and controversies about Christian mysteries such as the Trinity and free will and predestination. The next five chapters explore controversial issues of church politics, including persecution and toleration across the centuries, the basis of Mandeville's anticlericalism. In the eleventh chapter, he turns aside from matters of religion to review the balance of powers in Britain's government, a mixed or limited monarchy. The final chapter is essentially a repetition of Mandeville's pleas for civil and religious peace through mutual toleration by opposing religious parties. Mandeville's work is of continuing interest to students of culture and history, religion and theology, and political science. Irwin Primer is professor emeritus at Rutgers University who has written widely on Mandeville and the Scottish tradition in philosophy.
Free Thoughts on Religion, the Church, and National Happiness, by the Author of The Fable of the Bees
Author: Bernard MandevilleFree Thoughts on Religion, the Church, and National Happiness (1720)
Author: Bernard de MandevillePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Free Thoughts on Religion, the Church, and National Happiness
Author: Bernard MandevillePublisher:
ISBN: 9783487077826
Category : Free thought
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Free Thoughts on Religion, the Church, and National Happiness. By B.M.
Author: Anti-Atheism in Early Modern England 1580-1720
Author: Kenneth SheppardPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004288163
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
Atheists generated widespread anxieties between the Reformation and the Enlightenment. In response to such anxieties a distinct genre of religious apologetics emerged in England between 1580 and 1720. By examining the form and the content of the confutation of atheism, Anti-Atheism in Early Modern England demonstrates the prevalence of patterned assumptions and arguments about who an atheist was and what an atheist was supposed to believe, outlines and analyzes the major arguments against atheists, and traces the important changes and challenges to this apologetic discourse in the early Enlightenment.
The Case for The Enlightenment
Author: John RobertsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139448072
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 477
Book Description
An interesting and ambitious comparative study of the emergence of Enlightenment in Scotland and Naples. Challenging the tendency to fragment the Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Europe into multiple Enlightenments, John Robertson demonstrates the extent to which thinkers in two societies at the opposite ends of Europe shared common intellectual preoccupations.