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Book The Philosophy of John Norris of Bemerton

Download or read book The Philosophy of John Norris of Bemerton written by Flora Isabel MacKinnon and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Diary of Edmund Harrold  Wigmaker of Manchester 1712   15

Download or read book The Diary of Edmund Harrold Wigmaker of Manchester 1712 15 written by Craig Horner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The survival of Edmund Harrold's diary for the years 1712-1715 is a remarkable piece of luck for historians. Not only are such diaries for the 'middling sort' rare for this period, but few provide so candid an insight into the everyday concerns and troubles of early eighteenth century life. Providing a full transcription of the diary, with a substantial introduction and scholarly references, this edition (the first since a partial transcription in the nineteenth century) offers a unique insight into both a troubled individual, and the society in which he lived and worked. Born in 1678, Edmund Harrold seems to have worked his whole life in Manchester as a barber and wigmaker, with a sideline in book dealing. The period covered by his diary, although short, is rich in its insights into his life and thoughts. It lays open his struggles with alcohol, his attitudes to (and frequency of) marital sex, his reactions to the death of his three wives and 5 children, and his religious meditations upon these and other subjects. The diary also relates the ups and downs of his business, together with the day-to-day realities of a provincial barber, from cutting hair, to wig making, to unblocking the nipples of wet nurses (the only medical service he records performing). What emerges from the these pages is a fascinating snapshot into the social, professional and private life of an impoverished inhabitant of Manchester during a period of profound social and economic change. It is impossible to read the diary without developing some sense of empathy with this troubled man, but more than this, it puts flesh onto the bones of history, reminding us that the people we read about and study were all individuals.

Book An Essay Towards the Theory of the Ideal Or Intelligible World

Download or read book An Essay Towards the Theory of the Ideal Or Intelligible World written by John Norris and published by . This book was released on 1722 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Philosophical Monographs

Download or read book Philosophical Monographs written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Philosophical Monographs

Download or read book Philosophical Monographs written by Howard C. Warren and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Aesthetic Experience

Download or read book The Aesthetic Experience written by William Davis Furry and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Freedom and Purpose

Download or read book Freedom and Purpose written by Flora Isabel MacKinnon and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 440 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 OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Astell (1666-1731) is best known today as one of the earliest English feminists. She is also known as a Tory political pamphleteer, an Anglican apologist, an eloquent rhetorician, and an educational theorist. In this book, Jacqueline Broad interprets Astell first and foremost as a moral philosopher, or as someone committed to providing guidance on how best to live and how to attain happiness. The central claim of this work is that all the different strands of Astell's thought—her theory of knowledge, her metaphysics, her philosophy of the passions, her feminist vision, and her conservative political views—are best understood in light of her ethical objectives. To demonstrate this, Broad examines Astell's major writings and traces her programme to bring about a moral transformation of character in her fellow women. This programme draws on several key aspects of seventeenth-century philosophy, including Cartesian and Neoplatonist epistemologies, proofs for the existence of God, arguments for the immaterial soul, and theories about how to regulate the passions in accordance with reason. At the heart of Astell's philosophy, it is argued, lies a theory of virtue and guidelines on how to cultivate generosity of character, a benevolent disposition toward other people, and the virtue of moderation. This book will help readers to see Astell's feminist, political, and religious views in the context of her wider philosophical vision. It provides a rich and illuminating account of a unique female-centred contribution to the philosophy of the early modern period. It will appeal to students and scholars in philosophy, history of ideas, and gender studies.

Book Witcraft

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  • Author : Jonathan Rée
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2019-08-20
  • ISBN : 0300248806
  • Pages : 761 pages

Download or read book Witcraft written by Jonathan Rée and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 761 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ambitious new history of philosophy in English that broadens the canon to include many lesser-known figures Ludwig Wittgenstein once wrote that “philosophy should be written like poetry.” But philosophy has often been presented more prosaically as a long trudge through canonical authors and great works. But what, Jonathan Rée asks, if we instead saw the history of philosophy as a haphazard series of unmapped forest paths, a mass of individual stories showing endurance, inventiveness, bewilderment, anxiety, impatience, and good humor? Here, Jonathan Rée brilliantly retells this history, covering such figures as Descartes, Locke, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Mill, James, Frege, Wittgenstein, and Sartre. But he also includes authors not usually associated with philosophy, such as William Hazlitt, George Eliot, Darwin, and W. H. Auden. Above all, he uncovers dozens of unremembered figures—puritans, revolutionaries, pantheists, feminists, nihilists, socialists, and scientists—who were passionate and active readers of philosophy, and often authors themselves. Breaking away from high-altitude narratives, he shows how philosophy finds its way into ordinary lives, enriching and transforming them in unexpected ways.

Book A History of English Philosophy

Download or read book A History of English Philosophy written by William Ritchie Sorley and published by Cambridge : University Press. This book was released on 1920 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of English Philosophy

Download or read book A History of English Philosophy written by and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1994 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of British Philosophy to 1900

Download or read book A History of British Philosophy to 1900 written by and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1994 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cambridge History of English Literature  The age of Dryden

Download or read book The Cambridge History of English Literature The age of Dryden written by Sir Adolphus William Ward and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: