Ancient wisdom in the age of the new science : histories of philosophy in England, c. 1640-1700 /
Seventeenth-century England has long been heralded as the birthplace of a so-called 'new' philosophy. Yet what contemporaries might have understood by 'old' philosophy has been little appreciated. In this book Dmitri Levitin examines English attitudes to ancient philosophy in unp...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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Colección: | Ideas in context ;
113. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Seventeenth-century England has long been heralded as the birthplace of a so-called 'new' philosophy. Yet what contemporaries might have understood by 'old' philosophy has been little appreciated. In this book Dmitri Levitin examines English attitudes to ancient philosophy in unprecedented depth, demonstrating the centrality of engagement with the history of philosophy to almost all educated persons, whether scholars, clerics, or philosophers themselves, and aligning English intellectual culture closely to that of continental Europe. Drawing on a vast array of sources, Levitin challenges the assumption that interest in ancient ideas was limited to out-of-date 'ancients' or was in some sense 'pre-enlightened'; indeed, much of the intellectual justification for the new philosophy came from re-writing its history. At the same time, the deep investment of English scholars in pioneering forms of late humanist erudition led them to develop some of the most innovative narratives of ancient philosophy in early modern Europe. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (696 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781316398241 1316398242 9781316398784 1316398781 9781316226612 1316226611 110751374X 9781107513747 1316397165 9781316397169 1316399362 9781316399361 1316399907 9781316399903 1316400441 9781316400449 |