Author: Christopher WordsworthPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385544637
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Scholae Academicae. Some Account of the Studies at the English Universities in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Christopher WordsworthPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385544637
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Cambridge University Examination Papers
Author: The Growth of English Industry and Commerce
Author: William CunninghamPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385483158
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
The Enlightened Joseph Priestley
Author: Robert E. SchofieldPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271075570
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
In The Enlightened Joseph Priestley Robert Schofield completes his two-volume biography of one of the great figures of the English Enlightenment. The first volume, published in 1997, covered the first forty years of Joseph Priestley’s life in England. In this second volume, Schofield surveys the mature years of Priestley, including the achievements that were to make him famous—the discovery of oxygen, the defenses of Unitarianism, and the political liberalism that characterized his later life. He also recounts Priestley’s flight to Pennsylvania in 1794 and the final years of his life spent along the Susquehanna in Northumberland. Together, the two volumes will stand as the standard biography of Priestley for years to come. Joseph Priestley (1733–1804), a contemporary and friend of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, exceeded even these polymaths in the breadth of his curiosity and learning. Yet Priestley is often portrayed in negative terms, as a restless intellect, incapable of confining himself to any single task, without force or originality, and marked by hasty and superficial thought. In The Enlightened Joseph Priestley, he emerges as a man who was more than a lucky empiricist in science, more than a naive political liberal, more than an exhaustive compiler of superficial evidence in militant support of Unitarianism. In fact, he was learned in an extraordinary variety of subjects, from grammar, education, aesthetics, metaphysics, politics, and theology to natural philosophy. Priestley was, in fact, a man of the Enlightenment.
Catalogue of the Buddhist Sanskrit Manuscripts in the University Library, Cambridge
Author: Cambridge University LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buddha (The concept)
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Early Modern Disputations and Dissertations in an Interdisciplinary and European Context
Author: Meelis FriedenthalPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004436200
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 934
Book Description
This volume offers a wide-ranging overview of the 16th-18th century disputation culture in various European regions. Its focus is on printed disputations as a polyvalent media form which brings together many of the elements that contributed to the cultural and scientific changes during the early modern period.
The Aristotelian Tradition and the Rise of British Empiricism
Author: Marco SgarbiPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400749511
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Offers an extremely bold, far-reaching, and unsuspected thesis in the history of philosophy: Aristotelianism was a dominant movement of the British philosophical landscape, especially in the field of logic, and it had a long survival. British Aristotelian doctrines were strongly empiricist in nature, both in the theory of knowledge and in scientific method; this character marked and influenced further developments in British philosophy at the end of the century, and eventually gave rise to what we now call British empiricism, which is represented by philosophers such as John Locke, George Berkeley and David Hume. Beyond the apparent and explicit criticism of the old Scholastic and Aristotelian philosophy, which has been very well recognized by the scholarship in the twentieth century and which has contributed to the false notion that early modern philosophy emerged as a reaction to Aristotelianism, the present research examines the continuity, the original developments and the impact of Aristotelian doctrines and terminology in logic and epistemology as the background for the rise of empiricism.Without the Aristotelian tradition, without its doctrines, and without its conceptual elaborations, British empiricism would never have been born. The book emphasizes that philosophy is not defined only by the ‘great names’, but also by minor authors, who determine the intellectual milieu from which the canonical names emerge. It considers every single published work of logic between the middle of the sixteenth and the end of the seventeenth century, being acquainted with a number of surviving manuscripts and being well-informed about the best existing scholarship in the field.
The Bacchae of Euripides
Author: EuripidesLectures on Teaching Delivered in the University of Cambridge During the Lent Term, 1880
Author: FitchLectures on Teaching Delivered in the University of Cambridge During the Lent Term, 1880
Author: Sir Joshua Girling FitchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Teaching
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description