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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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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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| Colección: | Ideas in context ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Half-title page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Notes on the text; 1 Introduction: histories of philosophy between 'Renaissance' and 'Enlightenment'; 1.1 Method: the history of scholarship, the history of philosophy, or the history of intellectual culture?; 1.2 The historiography of the history of philosophy; 1.3 English intellectual culture, c. 1640-1700; 1.4 The argument; 2 Ancient wisdom I. The wisdom of the east: Zoroaster, astronomy, and the Chaldeans, from Thomas Stanley to Thomas Hyde.
- 2.1 Zoroaster and near#x84;-eastern#x84; philosophy before 16002.2 Thomas Stanley as a historian of philosophy; 2.3 Stanley and Zoroaster: the Chaldean Oracles in a rabbinic setting; 2.4 Histories of astronomy and the culture of English science: Stanley, Sherburne, and the natural philosophers; 2.5 Near#x84;-eastern#x84; philosophy and apologetics; 2.6 Jean Le Clerc, after Stanley; 2.7 Thomas Hyde; 2.8 Conclusion; 3 Ancient wisdom II: Moses the Egyptian?; 3.1 Egyptian and Mosaic philosophy before 1640; 3.2 The turn to history; 3.3 Scientists confront scripture I.
- 3.4 Henry More and the non#x84;-existence#x84; of 'Cambridge Platonism'3.5 Questioning Mosaic primacy; 3.6 The assault on Jewish primacy and a new Egypt; 3.7 Scientists confront scripture II; 3.8 The scholarly response; 3.9 Conclusion; 4 Histories of natural philosophy I. Histories of method; 4.1 Sources; 4.2 Historicising natural philosophy's break from metaphysics; 4.3 Histories of natural philosophical method before 1660; 4.4 Histories of natural philosophical method after 1660; 4.5 Historical justifications for the mathematicisation of experimental natural philosophy; 4.6 Conclusion.
- 5 Histories of natural philosophy II. Histories of doctrine: matter theory and animating principles5.1 Histories of matter theory; 5.2 Scholarly and religious responses to Gassendi's history of matter theory; 5.3 Natural philosophical histories of matter theory; 5.4 Ancient philosophy as idolatrous animism; 5.5 Conclusion; 6 Philosophy in the early church; 6.1 Sources; 6.2 The early church in philosophical context; 6.3 A new patristics; 6.4 Two early radicals: Hobbes and Beale; 6.5 Platonism, monasticism, and enthusiasm in the early church; 6.6 The acceptance of Platonism in the early church.
- 6.7 The trinitarian controversy6.8 Enlightenment?; 6.9 Conclusion; 7 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.