Author: John TolandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Deism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Letters to Serena
Author: John TolandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Deism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Letters 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 TolandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Letters to Serena:
Author: John TolandPublisher:
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Category : Paganism
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Letters to Serena
Author: John TolandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Deism
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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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.
Epicureans 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.
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.
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
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Languages : en
Pages : 566
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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.
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:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1126
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