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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Corneanu, Sorana
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.