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Book British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century

Download or read book British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century written by Sarah Hutton and published by Oxford History of Philosophy. This book was released on 2015 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy of the 17th Century provides an advanced comprehensive overview of the issues that are informing research on the subject of British philosophy in the seventeenth century, while at the same time offering new directions for research to take. It covers the whole of the seventeenth century, ranging from Francis Bacon to John Locke and Isaac Newton. The book contains five parts: the introductory Part I examines the state of the discipline and the nature of its practitioners as the century unfolded; Part II discusses the leading natural philosophers and the philosophy of nature, including Bacon, Boyle, and Newton; Part III covers knowledge and the human faculty of the understanding; Part IV explores the leading topics in British moral philosophy from the period; and Part V concerns political philosophy. In addition to dealing with canonical authors and celebrated texts, such as Thomas Hobbes and his Leviathan, it discusses many less-well-known figures and debates from the period whose importance is only now being appreciated."--Publisher's description.

Book Malebranch s Search After Truth

Download or read book Malebranch s Search After Truth written by Nicolas Malebranche and published by . This book was released on 1694 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Philosophy of Mary Astell

Download or read book The Philosophy of Mary Astell written by Jacqueline Broad and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacqueline Broad presents a new account of the philosophy of Mary Astell (1666-1731), which situates Astell's feminist, political, and religious views in the context of her wider philosophical vision. She argues that at the heart of Astell's thought lies a theory of virtue which emphasises generosity of character, benevolence, and moderation.

Book Gender  Society and Print Culture in Late Stuart England

Download or read book Gender Society and Print Culture in Late Stuart England written by Helen Berry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on a largely unknown type of popular print culture that developed in the late 1600s-the coffee house periodical-Helen Berry here offers new evidence that the politics of gender, far from being a marginal or frivolous topic, was an issue of general interest and wide-spread concern to the early modern reader. Berry's study provides the first full length analysis of John Dunton's Athenian Mercury (1691-97), an influential specimen of the coffee-house periodical genre, as well as the original question-and-answer publication which addressed both men's and women's issues in one journal. As the chapter headings in this book indicate, the topics addressed in the "agony column" of the Athenian Mercury-for example, the body, courtship, and sex-are of enduring interest across the centuries. Berry's study of this periodical provides new insights into the gendered ideas and debates that circulated among middling sorts in early modern England. An historical survey of the social effects of mass communication in the early modern period, this volume makes an important contribution to the ongoing study of how gendered ideas and values were communicated culturally, particularly beyond the milieu of elite groups such as the nobility and gentry. It argues that the mass media was from its infancy an important means of communicating powerful messages about gender norms, particularly among the middling sorts. The study will appeal not only to historians, women and gender studies scholars and literature scholars, but also to scholars of publishing history.

Book Susanna Wesley

    Book Details:
  • Author : Susanna Wesley
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 1997-06-26
  • ISBN : 0195360729
  • Pages : 529 pages

Download or read book Susanna Wesley written by Susanna Wesley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997-06-26 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susanna Wesley, long celebrated in Methodist mythology as mother of the movement's founders, now takes place as a practical theologian in her own right. This collection of her letters, spiritual diary, and longer treatises (only one of which was published in her lifetime) shows her to be more than the nurturing mother of Wesleyan legend. It also reveals her to be a well-educated woman in conversation with contemporary theological, philosophical, and literary works. Her quotations and allusions include Locke, Pascal, and Herbert, as well as a number of now forgotten theologians. In some of her work, one can distinguish doctrinal and spiritual leanings, such as Arminianism and Christian perfection, that would later find wide expression in the spread of Methodism. Further, her writings demonstrate her readiness, for conscience's sake, to stand up to the men in her life--father, husband, and sons---and the three incarnations of English Protestantism they represented: respectively, Puritanism, the Established Church, and the new Methodist movement. Tracing these incidents in her letters and diaries, a reader can begin to understand how spirituality, even an otherwise conservative one in rather restrictive times, can serve to empower the voice of women.

Book Shakespeare s Contagious Sympathies

Download or read book Shakespeare s Contagious Sympathies written by Eric Langley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding the early-modern subject to be constituted, as Shakespeare's Ulysses explains, by its communications with others, this study considers what happens when these conceptions of compassionate communication and sympathetic exchange are comprehensively undermined by period anxieties concerning contagion and the transmission of disease. Allowing that 'no man is . . . any thing' until he has 'communicate[d] his parts to others', can these formative communications still be risked in a world preoccupied by communicable sickness, where every contact risks contraction, where every touch could be the touch of plague, where kind interaction could facilitate cruel infection, and where to commiserate is to risk 'miserable dependence'? Counting the cost of compassion, this study of Shakespeare's plays and poetry analyses how medical explanations of disease impact upon philosophical conceptions and literary depictions of his characters who find themselves precariously implicated within a world of ill communications. It examines the influence of scientific thought upon the history of the subject, and explores how Shakespeare—alive to both the importance and dangers of sympathetic communication—articulates an increasing sense of both the pragmatic benefits of monadic thought, emotional isolation, and subjective quarantine, while offering his account of the considerable loss involved when we lose faith in vulnerable, tender, and open existence.

Book Edwards on God

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sebastian Rehnman
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2020-11-29
  • ISBN : 1000261298
  • Pages : 233 pages

Download or read book Edwards on God written by Sebastian Rehnman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Edwards is generally acknowledged as one of the foremost American philosophers. Edwards on God offers a historically informed philosophical analysis of his arguments for the existence and nature of God. The book begins with a characterization of Edwards’s intellectual profile and philosophical theology. It then explicates and evaluates his arguments from the beginning of existence, design, ‘being in general’, virtue as benevolence, and his account of natural and moral divine attributes. There is no other such treatment of Edwards’s metaphysics of divinity. This volume will be primarily relevant to philosophers, historians and theologians.

Book De la Recherche du Bien

Download or read book De la Recherche du Bien written by A.G. Walton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Discourse of the Mind in Eighteenth Century Fiction

Download or read book The Discourse of the Mind in Eighteenth Century Fiction written by John Dussinger and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-11-02 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Becoming Divine

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  • Author : Brandon G. Withrow
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2011-11-04
  • ISBN : 161097199X
  • Pages : 247 pages

Download or read book Becoming Divine written by Brandon G. Withrow and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-11-04 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was Jonathan Edwards always--or ever--the stalwart and unquestioning Reformed theologian that he is often portrayed as being? In what ways did his own conversion fail to meet the standards of his Puritan ancestors? And how did this affect his understanding of the divine being and of the nature of justification? Becoming Divine investigates the early theological career of Edwards, finding him deep in a crisis of faith that drove him into an obsessive lifelong search for answers. Instead of a fear of God-which he had been taught to understand as proof of his conversion-he experienced a "surprising, amazing joy." Suddenly he saw the divine being in everything and felt himself transported into a heavenly world, becoming one with the divine family. What he developed, as he sought to make sense of this unexpected joy, is a theology that is both ancient and early modern-a theology of divine participation rooted in the incarnation of Christ.

Book Early English Books  1641 1700

    Book Details:
  • Author : University Microfilms International
  • Publisher : Ann Arbor, Mich. : U.M.I.
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN : 9780835721004
  • Pages : 848 pages

Download or read book Early English Books 1641 1700 written by University Microfilms International and published by Ann Arbor, Mich. : U.M.I.. This book was released on 1990 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nicolas Malebranche  1638 1715

Download or read book Nicolas Malebranche 1638 1715 written by Gregor Sebba and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Father Malebranche s treatise concerning the Search after Truth  The whole work compleat  To which is added the author s treatise of Nature and Grace     together with his answer to the animadversions upon the first volume  his defense against the accusations of Mr  De La Ville  c   relating to the same subject  All translated by T  Taylor

Download or read book Father Malebranche s treatise concerning the Search after Truth The whole work compleat To which is added the author s treatise of Nature and Grace together with his answer to the animadversions upon the first volume his defense against the accusations of Mr De La Ville c relating to the same subject All translated by T Taylor written by Nicolas Malebranche and published by . This book was released on 1694 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Malebranch s Search After Truth

Download or read book Malebranch s Search After Truth written by Nicolas Malebranche and published by . This book was released on 1695 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dictionary Catalog of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library written by William Andrews Clark Memorial Library and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books  1881 1900  M to Markwort

Download or read book The British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books 1881 1900 M to Markwort written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 1066 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: