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Book The Petrine Instauration

Download or read book The Petrine Instauration written by Robert Collis and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-12-16 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on recent scholarship on the history of Western esotericism and religious studies on the importance of millenarian thought in Early Modern Europe, this study provides an innovative re-examination of Peter the Great’s Court in early eighteenth-century Russia.

Book The Petrine Instauration

Download or read book The Petrine Instauration written by Robert Collis and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-12-09 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on recent scholarship on the history of Western esotericism and religious studies on the importance of millenarian thought in Early Modern Europe, this study provides an innovative re-examination of Peter the Great’s Court in early eighteenth-century Russia.

Book Instauration

Download or read book Instauration written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Great Instauration   And  New Atlantis

Download or read book The Great Instauration And New Atlantis written by Francis Bacon and published by Harlan Davidson. This book was released on 1980 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Limits of Liberalism

Download or read book The Limits of Liberalism written by Mark T. Mitchell and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Limits of Liberalism, Mark T. Mitchell argues that a rejection of tradition is both philosophically incoherent and politically harmful. This false conception of tradition helps to facilitate both liberal cosmopolitanism and identity politics. The incoherencies are revealed through an investigation of the works of Michael Oakeshott, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Michael Polanyi. Mitchell demonstrates that the rejection of tradition as an epistemic necessity has produced a false conception of the human person—the liberal self—which in turn has produced a false conception of freedom. This book identifies why most modern thinkers have denied the essential role of tradition and explains how tradition can be restored to its proper place. Oakeshott, MacIntyre, and Polanyi all, in various ways, emphasize the necessity of tradition, and although these thinkers approach tradition in different ways, Mitchell finds useful elements within each to build an argument for a reconstructed view of tradition and, as a result, a reconstructed view of freedom. Mitchell argues that only by finding an alternative to the liberal self can we escape the incoherencies and pathologies inherent therein. This book will appeal to undergraduates, graduate students, professional scholars, and educated laypersons in the history of ideas and late modern culture.

Book Materialism and Social Inquiry in the Continental Tradition in Philosophy

Download or read book Materialism and Social Inquiry in the Continental Tradition in Philosophy written by Andrew M. Koch and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-08-04 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The continental tradition in philosophy has gotten more “materialistic” over the last two hundred years. This has resulted from a combination of some very specific moves with regard to the epistemological parameters of understanding and the assertion that ideas may have material force in history. Therefore, the materialism within the continental tradition is not a materiality of being, but a materiality of understanding and action. Such an inquiry opens up space between the activities of sensation and the mental faculty of cognition. ‘I think, therefore I am,’ is not an empirical statement, but a statement of cognition. It is assumed that this distinction is at the core of continental philosophy. Cognition is always interpretive. Experience is the start of cognition, but not its final product. Our cognitions cannot be separated from our experience of the physical, social, and cultural environment around us. The symbolic nature of language reinforces the interpretive nature of our thoughts and ideas. Our language is, therefore, always projecting an implicit image of the world. Language is, therefore, always political. The materiality of these cognitive world-views is manifested in two ways. First, in their formation. They are the products of sensual contact with the world. Second, in their effects. They move people. It is a picture of the world which serves to shape the content and character of human behavior. Whether we want to call these phantoms of the mind, world-view, ideas, thoughts, cognitions, or any other term, the dual character of their materiality is secure. This work examines the threads materialist ideas running through the efforts of some major authors in the continental tradition in philosophy. A model of materialism is constructed in Chapter One and used to assess the materialist elements in works from Kant, Marx, Weber, Nietzsche, and contemporary poststructuralism. The work demonstrates the evolution of materialist thinking within the tradition and asserts an evolving and developing articulation of materialism in relation to the thoughts and activities of human beings.

Book New Atlantis and The Great Instauration

Download or read book New Atlantis and The Great Instauration written by Francis Bacon and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly annotated second edition of the now-classic pairing of Bacon’s masterpieces, New Atlantis and The Great Instauration features the addition of other works by Bacon, including “The Idols of the Mind,” Of Unity in Religion” and “Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates,” as well a Summary of the each work and Questions for the reader. S Includes works new to the second edition, including “The Idols of the Mind,” “Of Unity in Religion,” and “Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates” Updates the layout of the previous edition with a more generous interior design, making this work more student-friendly and easier to navigate in the classroom Each work is introduced and subsequently discussed, revealing the importance of Bacon’s work to his contemporaries as well as to modern readers Includes a comprehensive introduction and annotations throughout the text; as well as an appendix of Principal Dates in the Life of Sir Francis Bacon; a selected bibliography; and synopses and questions to accompany each work

Book A Beautiful Ending

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  • Author : John Jeffries Martin
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2022-04-19
  • ISBN : 0300265441
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book A Beautiful Ending written by John Jeffries Martin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning historian’s revisionary account of the early modern world, showing how apocalyptic ideas stimulated political, religious, and intellectual transformations “A masterful synthesis of the prognostications of faith, knowledge, and politics on a global stage. Martin’s book illuminates one of the enduring themes that shaped the medieval and early modern world.”—Paula E. Findlen, Stanford University In this revelatory immersion into the apocalyptic, messianic, and millenarian ideas and movements that created the modern world, John Jeffries Martin performs a kind of empathic time travel, entering into the psyche, spirituality, and temporalities of a cast of historical actors in profound moments of discovery. He argues that religious faith—Christian, Jewish, and Muslim—did not oppose but rather fostered the making of a modern scientific spirit, buoyed along by a providential view of history and nature, and a deep conviction in the coming End of the World. Through thoughtful attention to the primary sources, Martin re‑reads the Renaissance, excavating a religious foundation at the core of even the most radical empirical thinking. Familiar icons like Ibn Khaldūn, Columbus, Isaac Luria, and Francis Bacon emerge startlingly fresh and newly gleaned, agents of a history formerly untold and of a modern world made in the image of its imminent end.

Book Francis Bacon

Download or read book Francis Bacon written by Perez Zagorin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francis Bacon (1561-1626) is commonly regarded as one of the founders of the Scientific Revolution. Zagorin's is the first biography in many years to present a comprehensive account of the entire sweep of Bacon's thought and its enduring influence. 20 halftones.

Book Natural Science and the Origins of the British Empire

Download or read book Natural Science and the Origins of the British Empire written by Sarah Irving and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Represents a history of the British Empire that takes account of the sense of empire as intellectual as well as geographic dominion: the historiography of the British Empire, with its preoccupation of empire as geographically unchallenged sovereignty, overlooks the idea of empire as intellectual dominion.

Book The Religious Foundations of Francis Bacon s Thought

Download or read book The Religious Foundations of Francis Bacon s Thought written by Stephen A. McKnight and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Presents close analysis of eight of Francis Bacon's texts in order to investigate the relation of his religious views to his instauration. Attempts to correct the persistent misconception of Bacon as a secular modern who dismissed religion in order to promote the human advancement of knowledge"--Provided by publisher.

Book The Politics of Multiracialism

Download or read book The Politics of Multiracialism written by Heather M. Dalmage and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2004-06-23 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative analysis of current thought and discourse on multiracialism.

Book Bacon s Novum organum

Download or read book Bacon s Novum organum written by Francis Bacon and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Lesser Existences

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  • Author : David Lapoujade
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 2021-06-15
  • ISBN : 1452966818
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book The Lesser Existences written by David Lapoujade and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the complex aesthetics and ontology at work in Étienne Souriau’s unique oeuvre In this concise but expansive exegesis of the philosophical aesthetics of Étienne Souriau, philosopher David Lapoujade provides a lucid introduction to many of the key concepts underpinning Souriau’s existential pluralism. Among the various modes of existence that populate a world, Souriau grants particular importance to virtual beings—the lesserexistences. Always taking the form of a sketch or an outline, the perfection of such existences lies precisely in the incompletion with which they imbue all reality. They exist with a problematizing force, posing questions and inviting the establishment of an “art” that would make them more real. And yet, for this to happen, another existence must first see them—must be capable of hearing their appeals—and must be willing to defend their right to exist. Through discussions of modern art ranging from the dispossessed characters of Kafka and Beckett to the grids of Agnes Martin and the protographies of Oscar Muñoz, Lapoujade leads the reader into a complex philosophical world, brimming with modal existences and animated by a unique conception of creative processes, where the philosopher as artist or artist as philosopher becomes an advocate, defending the right of certain realities to gain in existence. For Souriau, nothing is given in advance, everything is a work in the making: such is the instaurative practice that grounds his entire oeuvre.

Book Instaurations

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  • Author : D. S. Carne-Ross
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2022-04-29
  • ISBN : 0520358546
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Instaurations written by D. S. Carne-Ross and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-04-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a sequence of six related studies of poets from classical antiquity to the present (Pindar and Sophocles at one end, Pound at the other, with Dante somewhere in the middle). This group of literary essays is framed by two more general papers showing how the texts can reach out into our society and into the lives we lead there--and can question the lives we lead. the opening paper argues for a way of reading (as rigorous as those honored in the academy but directed to different ends) that would restore to literature its old didactic function, and the final paper searches for a place where such a reading might be possible--a way of reading that would also be a way of living. Literature matters, more than it ever has before, because it is the strongest remaining witness to much that mankind has always known but is now in danger of losing. It can tell us things about human being and about nature and about "the gods" that we have forgotten. But it can do so only if we read very hard, hence the body of this book consists of close textual studies of poets old and new that will be of value even to those who are disturbed by the author's views on the role of literature today. The word "instauration" means renewal and is also intended to point to a conception of poetry as celebration. Beyond that, it means a founding, the sense Bacon had in mind when he called his program for the advancement of natural science Instauratio magna. Three and half centuries later, we may be coming to the end of the great movement at whose beginnings Bacon stood. If so, the question that faces us all is, What comes next, what new founding is possible? This books looks forward to another instauration: One to which poetic thinking will have more contribute. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979.

Book Francis Bacon

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  • Author : Edwin Abbott Abbott
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1885
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 556 pages

Download or read book Francis Bacon written by Edwin Abbott Abbott and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: