Regimens of the mind : Boyle, Locke, and the early modern cultura animi tradition /
In Regimens of the Mind, Sorana Corneanu proposes a new approach to the epistemological and methodological doctrines of the leading experimental philosophers of seventeenth-century England, an approach that considers their often overlooked moral, psychological, and theological elements. Corneanu foc...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Chicago ; London :
University of Chicago Press,
2011.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Francis Bacon and the art of direction
- An art of tempering the mind
- The distempered mind and the tree of knowledge
- A comprehensive culture of the mind
- The end of knowledge
- The study of nature as regimen
- Cultura and medicina animi: an early modern tradition
- The physician of the soul
- Sources
- Genres
- Utility: practical versus speculative knowledge
- Self-love and the fallen/uncultured mind
- The office of reason
- Passions, errors, and assent
- The discipline, the virtues, and habituation
- Virtuoso discipline
- The cure of the mind and Solomon's house
- Passions, errors, and method
- Idols and diseases of the mind
- Epistemic modesty
- The way of inquiry
- A 'union of eyes and hands': the community and objectivity revisited
- Robert Boyle: experience as paideia
- The limits and the 'perfection' of reason
- The weak mind and the virtues of a free inquiry
- Reason and experience
- The Christian philosopher
- John Locke and the education of the mind
- Limits of reason, useful knowledge, and the duty to search for truth
- A natural history of the distempered mind
- The regulation of assent: a perfecting exercise
- The discourse with a friend
- Studying nature
- Lived physics
- The appropriateness of disproportion
- Experience, history, and speculation
- Affective cognition
- Studying 'God's contrivances'
- The study of theology and the growth of the mind
- Worlds and angels
- Reading scripture
- Conclusion.