Author: John TolandPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Letters to Serena: Containing, 1. The Origin and Force of Prejudices. 2. The History of Soul's Immortality Among the Heathens. 3. The Origin of Idolatry, and Reasons of Heathenism. As Also 4. A Letter to a Gentleman in Holland, Showing Spinosa's System of Philosophy to be Without Any Principle Or Foundation. 5. Motion Essential to Matter; in Answer to Some Remarks by a Noble Friend on the Confutation of Spinosa. To All which is Prefix'd, 6. A Preface ... By Mr. Toland
Author: John TolandLetters to Serena
Author: John TolandLetters to Serena: Containing, I. The Origin and Force of Prejudices. II. The History of the Soul's Immortality Among the Heathens. III. The Origin of Idolatry, and Reasons of Heathenism. As Also, IV. A Letter to a Gentleman in Holland, Showing Spinosa's System of Philosophy to be Without Any Principle Or Foundation. V. Motions Essential to Matter; in Answer to Some Remarks by a Noble Friend on the Confutation of Spinosa. To All which is Prefix'd, VI. A Preface; Being a Letter to a Gentleman in London, Sent Together with the Foregoing Dissertations, and Declaring the Several Occasions of Writing Them
Author: John TolandEpicureans and Atheists in France, 1650-1729
Author: Alan Charles KorsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107132649
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
This book describes how French Christian culture allowed the dissemination of Epicureanism, which denied divine design. In its wake, an assertive atheism appeared.
The Radicalization of Cicero
Author: Katherine A. EastPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 331949757X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This book uses a previously overlooked Neo-Latin treatise, Cicero Illustratus, to provide insight into the status and function of the Ciceronian tradition at the beginning of the eighteenth century, and consequently to more broadly illuminate the fate of that tradition in the early Enlightenment. Cicero Illustratus itself is the first subject for inquiry, mined for what its deliberately erudite and colorfully polemical passages of scholarly stratagems reveal about Ciceronian scholarship and the motives for exploring it within the context of early Enlightenment thought. It also includes an analysis of the role played by the Ciceronian tradition in the broader political and radical movements that existed in the Enlightenment, with particular attention paid to Cicero’s unexpectedly prominent position in major political and philosophical Republican and Erastian works. The subject of this book together with the conclusions reached will provide scholars and students with crucial new material relating to the classical tradition, the history of scholarship, and the intellectual history of the early Enlightenment.
Measuring the Distance between Locke and Toland
Author: Jonathan S. MarkoPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1498218962
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Ever since Bishop Stillingfleet accused John Locke of having unwittingly paved the way with his Essay for the alleged heresy promulgated in John Toland's Christianity Not Mysterious, the latter two thinkers and works have been consistently joined in histories of philosophy covering the rise of natural religion in England. While scholars have generally thought that Locke got the better of the good bishop in their subsequent written exchanges initiated by the charge, they appear merely to assume that Stillingfleet correctly read Toland and that Locke accepts that reading. Perhaps the most obvious piece of evidence favoring that stance is that while Locke clearly admits "above reason" doctrines, Toland dismisses them: Christianity is not mysterious! It is curious, however, that Toland scholars readily point out many concepts that Toland used as being the same as or different from Lockean notions about which many Locke scholars are admittedly perplexed. Through patient exposition of relevant texts and letters, deconstruction of scholarly works, and careful reasoning, this book shows that Toland's deviations from Locke regarding reason and faith are far more minor than anyone has concluded. Stillingfleet was correct to connect them, but was incorrect in the way that he did it.
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: Autonomous Nature
Author: Carolyn MerchantPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317395875
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Autonomous Nature investigates the history of nature as an active, often unruly force in tension with nature as a rational, logical order from ancient times to the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century. Along with subsequent advances in mechanics, hydrodynamics, thermodynamics, and electromagnetism, nature came to be perceived as an orderly, rational, physical world that could be engineered, controlled, and managed. Autonomous Nature focuses on the history of unpredictability, why it was a problem for the ancient world through the Scientific Revolution, and why it is a problem for today. The work is set in the context of vignettes about unpredictable events such as the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, the Bubonic Plague, the Lisbon Earthquake, and efforts to understand and predict the weather and natural disasters. This book is an ideal text for courses on the environment, environmental history, history of science, or the philosophy of science.
Catalogue of the Books in the Manchester Public Free Library, Reference Department. Prepared by A. Crestadoro. (Vol. II. Comprising the Additions from 1864 to 1879.) [With the "Index of Names and Subjects".]
Author: Public Free Libraries (Manchester)Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1126
Book Description
Thinking Matter
Author: John W. YoltonPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816660581
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Thinking Matter was first published in 1984. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. This book, a reevaluation of a major issue in modern philosophy, explores the controversy that grew out of John Locke's suggestion, in the Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690), that God could give to matter the power of thought. The concept of "thinking matter," as Locke's notion came to be described, offered a threat to those who held orthodox beliefs, especially to their views on the nature and immortality of the soul. In Thinking Matter,John Yolton traces this controversy from theologian Ralph Cudworth's 1678 manifesto, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein, All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated — an attack on ancient versions of naturalism—down to the philosophical and scientific studies of Joseph Priestley in the late eighteenth century.