An elegant and learned discourse of the light of nature /
Composed in a period of religious and political upheaval, Culverwell's "Discourse of the Light of Nature" is an imaginative statement of the teachings of Christian humanism concerning the nature and limits of human reason and the related concepts of natural and divine law. In it the s...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
©1971.
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Colección: | Heritage.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction ; Biography ; The Discourse and the context of religious controversy ; Culverwell and Bacon ; Voluntarism and innate ideas : Suarez, Herbert, Locke ; Culverwell and the Whichcote-Tuckney debate ; The form and argument of the Discourse ; The text
- "An Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature" ; The porch, or introduction
- The explication of the words
- What nature is
- Of the nature of a law in general
- Of the eternal law
- Of the law of nature in general, its {nature/subject}
- The extent of the law of nature
- How the law of nature is discovered? not by tradition
- The light of reason
- Of the consent of nations
- The light of reason is a derivative light
- The light of reason is a diminutive light
- The light of reason discovers present, not future things
- The light of reason is a certain light
- The light of reason is directive
- The light of reason is calme and peaceable
- The light of reason is a pleasant light
- The light of reason is an ascendant light.