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Author : Henry G. Leeuwen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789401759076
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book The Problem of Certainty in English Thought 1630-1690 written by Henry G. Leeuwen and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry G. Leeuwen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9401759065
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Problem of Certainty in English Thought 1630–1690 written by Henry G. Leeuwen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry G. Van Leeuwen
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Problem of Certainty in English Thought written by Henry G. Van Leeuwen and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry G. van Leeuwen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9789401031837
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Problem of Certainty in English Thought 1630–1690 written by Henry G. van Leeuwen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revival of ancient Greek scepticism in the 16th and 17th centuries was of the greatest importance in changing the intellectual climate in which modern science developed, and in developing the attitude that we now call "The scientific outlook". Many streams of thought came together contributing to various facets of this crucial development. One of the most fascinating of these is that of "constructive scepticism", the history of one of whose forms is traced in this study by Prof. Van Leeuwen. The sceptical crisis that arose during the Renaissance and Refor mation challenged the fundamental principles of the many areas of man's intellectual world, in philosophy, theology, humane and moral studies, and the sciences. The devastating weapons of classical scep ticism were employed to undermine man's confidence in his ability to discover truth in any area whatsoever by use of the human faculties of the senses and reason. These sceptics indicated that there was no area in which human beings could gain any certain knowledge, and that the effort to do so was fruitless, vain, presumptuous, and perhaps even blasphemous. StaI'ting with the writings of Hen ric us Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486-1535) and Michel de Montaigne (1533-92), a thoroughly destructive sceptical movement developed, attacking both the old and the new science, philosophy and theology, and insisting that true and certain knowledge can only be gained by Revelation.
Author : James Tully
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521436380
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (363 download)
Download or read book An Approach to Political Philosophy written by James Tully and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-03-18 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Approach to Political Philosophy: Locke in Context brings together Professor Tully's most important and innovative statements on Locke in a systematic treatment of the latter's thought that is at once contextual and critical. Each essay has been rewritten and expanded for this volume, and each seeks to understand a theme of Locke's political philosophy by interpreting it in light of the complex contexts of early modern European political thought and practice. These historical studies are then used in a variety of ways to gain critical perspectives on the assumptions underlying current debates in political philosophy and the history of political thought. The themes treated include government, toleration, discipline, property, aboriginal rights, individualism, power, labour, self-ownership, community, progress, liberty, participation, and revolution.
Author : Richard Henry Popkin
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004093249
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (932 download)
Download or read book The Third Force in Seventeenth Century Thought written by Richard Henry Popkin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1992 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains more than twenty essays in the history of modern philosophy and history of religion by R.H. Popkin. Several of the essays have not been published before. Thinkers discussed include Hobbes, Henry More, Pascal, Spinoza, Cudworth, Newton, Hume, Condorcet, and Moritz Schlick.
Author : Thomas Jay Oord
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1621894908
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Divine Grace and Emerging Creation written by Thomas Jay Oord and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wesleyans and Wesleyan theology have long been interested in the sciences. John Wesley kept abreast of scientific developments in his own day, and he engaged science in his theological construction. Divine Grace and Emerging Creation offers explorations by contemporary scholars into the themes and issues pertinent to contemporary science and Wesleyan Theology. In addition to groundbreaking research by leading Wesleyan theologians, Jurgen Moltmann contributes an essay. Moltmann's work derives from his keynote address at the joint Wesleyan Theological Society and Society for Pentecostal Studies meeting on science and theology at Duke University. Other contributions address key contemporary themes in theology and science, including evolution, ecology, neurology, emergence theory, intelligent design, scientific and theological method, and biblical cosmology. John Wesley's own approach to science, explored by many contributors, offers insights for how two of humanity's central concerns--science and theology--can now be understood in fruitful and complementary ways.
Author : A. C. Crombie
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826431623
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Science, Art and Nature in Medieval and Modern Thought written by A. C. Crombie and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1990-07-01 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author sees the history of Western Science as the history of a vision and an argument, initiated by the ancient Greeks in their search for principles at once of nature and of argument itself. This scientific vision explored and controlled by argument, and the diversification of both vision and argument by scientific experience and by interaction with the wider contexts of intellectual culture, constitute the long history of European scientific thought. Underlying that development have been specific commitments to conceptions of nature and of science and its intellectual and moral assumptions, accompanied by a recurrent critique; their diversification has generated a series of different styles of scientific thinking and of making theoretical and practical decisions which the work describes.
Author : Steffen Ducheyne
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400721269
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
Download or read book “The main Business of natural Philosophy” written by Steffen Ducheyne and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this monograph, Steffen Ducheyne provides a historically detailed and systematically rich explication of Newton’s methodology. Throughout the pages of this book, it will be shown that Newton developed a complex natural-philosophical methodology which encompasses procedures to minimize inductive risk during the process of theory formation and which, thereby, surpasses a standard hypothetico-deductive methodological setting. Accordingly, it will be highlighted that the so-called ‘Newtonian Revolution’ was not restricted to the empirical and theoretical dimensions of science, but applied equally to the methodological dimension of science. Furthermore, it will be documented that Newton’s methodology was far from static and that it developed alongside with his scientific work. Attention will be paid not only to the successes of Newton’s innovative methodology, but equally to its tensions and limitations. Based on a thorough study of Newton’s extant manuscripts, this monograph will address and contextualize, inter alia, Newton’s causal realism, his views on action at a distance and space and time, the status of efficient causation in the /Principia/, the different phases of his methodology, his treatment of force and the constituents of the physico-mathematical models in the context of Book I of the /Principia/, the analytic part of the argument for universal gravitation, the meaning and significance of his regulae philosophandi, the methodological differences between his mechanical and optical work, and, finally, the interplay between Newton’s theology and his natural philosophy.
Author : Sophia Rosenfeld
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674266811
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Common Sense written by Sophia Rosenfeld and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-02 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Common sense has always been a cornerstone of American politics. In 1776, Tom Paine’s vital pamphlet with that title sparked the American Revolution. And today, common sense—the wisdom of ordinary people, knowledge so self-evident that it is beyond debate—remains a powerful political ideal, utilized alike by George W. Bush’s aw-shucks articulations and Barack Obama’s down-to-earth reasonableness. But far from self-evident is where our faith in common sense comes from and how its populist logic has shaped modern democracy. Common Sense: A Political History is the first book to explore this essential political phenomenon. The story begins in the aftermath of England’s Glorious Revolution, when common sense first became a political ideal worth struggling over. Sophia Rosenfeld’s accessible and insightful account then wends its way across two continents and multiple centuries, revealing the remarkable individuals who appropriated the old, seemingly universal idea of common sense and the new strategic uses they made of it. Paine may have boasted that common sense is always on the side of the people and opposed to the rule of kings, but Rosenfeld demonstrates that common sense has been used to foster demagoguery and exclusivity as well as popular sovereignty. She provides a new account of the transatlantic Enlightenment and the Age of Revolutions, and offers a fresh reading on what the eighteenth century bequeathed to the political ferment of our own time. Far from commonsensical, the history of common sense turns out to be rife with paradox and surprise.
Author : John W. Yolton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521078385
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Locke and the Compass of Human Understanding written by John W. Yolton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1970-09-02 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Yolton delves into John Locke's most important work, the Essay Concerning Human Understanding.
Author : G.A.J. Rogers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135227527
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Insiders and Outsiders in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy written by G.A.J. Rogers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-10-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeenth-century philosophy scholars come together in this volume to address the Insiders--Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, and Hobbes--and Outsiders--Pierre Gassendi, Kenelm Digby, Theophilus Gale, Ralph Cudworth and Nicholas Malebranche--of the philosocial canon, and the ways in which reputations are created and confirmed. In their own day, these ten figures were all considered to be thinkers of substantial repute, and it took some time for the Insiders to come to be regarded as major and original philosophers. Today these Insiders all feature in the syllabi of most history of philosophy courses taught in western universities, and the papers in this collection, contrasting the stories of their receptions with those of the Outsiders, give an insight into the history of philosophy which is generally overlooked.
Author : Richard Henry Popkin
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004110984
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Everything Connects written by Richard Henry Popkin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1999 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard H. Popkin has already been celebrated in two Festschriften as one of the century's greatest historians of philosophy.This latest book, whose editors were among those who prepared the first two volumes, centers on Popkin's crucial role in bringing together scholars from around the world in a long series of academic conferences and learned meetings which helped transform the field from one of solitary endeavour into a 'Republic of Letters'.Publications by Richard H. Popkin: Isaac la Peyrère (1596-1676): His Life, Work and Influence, ISBN: 978 90 04 08157 4 Edited by Y. Kaplan, H. Méchoulan and R.H. Popkin, Menasseh ben Israel and his World, ISBN: 978 90 04 09114 6 Third Force in Seventeenth-Century Thought, ISBN: 978 90 04 09324 9 Martin I.J. Griffin Jr. Annotated by Richard H. Popkin. Edited by Lila Freedman, Latitudinarianism in the Seventeenth-Century Church of England, ISBN: 978 90 04 09653 0 Edited by Richard H. Popkin and Arjo Vanderjagt, Scepticism and Irreligion in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, ISBN: 978 90 04 09596 0 Edited by Martin Mulsow and Richard H. Popkin, Latitudinarianism in the Seventeenth-Century Church of England, ISBN: 978 90 04 12883 5 Edited by R.H. Popkin, Millenarianism and Messianism in English Literature and Thought 1650-1800, ISBN: 978 90 04 08513 8 (Out of print)
Author : Paul Skandera
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110197863
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Phraseology and Culture in English written by Paul Skandera and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-08-22 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proposition that there is a correlation between language and culture or culture-specific ways of thinking can be traced back to the views of Herder and von Humboldt in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It is generally accepted today that a language, especially its lexicon, influences its speakers' cultural patterns of thought and perception in various ways, for example through a culture-specific segmentation of the extralinguistic reality, the frequency of occurrence of particular lexical items, or the existence of keywords or key word combinations revealing core cultural values. The aim of this volume is to explore the cultural dimension of a wide range of preconstructed or semi-preconstructed word combinations in English. The 17 papers of the volume are divided into four sections, focusing on particular lexemes (e.g. enjoy and its collocates), types of word combinations (e.g. proverbs and similes), use-related varieties (such as the language of tourism or answering-machine messages), and user-related varieties (such as Aboriginal English or African English). The sections are preceded by a prologue, tracing the development of the study of formulaic language, and followed by an epilogue, which draws together the threads laid out in the various papers. The relation between language and culture in general has been explored in a number of important works over the past ten years. However, the study of the relation between English phraseology and culture in particular has been largely neglected. This volume is the first book-length publication devoted entirely to this topic.
Author : Marianne Thormählen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521440424
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Rochester written by Marianne Thormählen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-06-25 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new study of the notorious Restoration rake-poet, set in his intellectual context.
Author : Attila K. Molnár
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
ISBN 13 : 3647540897
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (475 download)
Download or read book The Protestant Ethic in Hungary written by Attila K. Molnár and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2024-04-15 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While in the 16-17th centuries about the two thirds of the Hungarians belonged to the Reformed Church, the presence of the "spirit of capitalism" and the "protestant ethic" is rather questionable. The Calvinists did not played a different or decisive role in the capitalisation process of Hungary at the end of the 19th century. The historical analysis focuses on the puritan doctrines can be foun in the religiosity of Hungarian puritans and Reformed people in the 17th century. The "Hungarian Protestant ethic" differs from Weber's ideal-type in two respects: the Hungarian version is more pietistic, less activist; and it seems to have less practical influence in everyday life because of the weak religiosity. The Hungarian case does not refute Weber's thesis, but it call the attention to two important parts of historical analysis: the reinterpreting, selecting procedure in social context; and the intensity of religiosity.
Author : David A. J. Richards
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195363086
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Toleration and the Constitution written by David A. J. Richards and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1989-04-06 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why have the issues of religious liberty, free speech and constitutional privacy come to figure so prominently in our society? What are the origins of the basic principles of our constitutional law? This work develops a general theory of constitutional interpretation based on an original synthesis of political theory, history, law, and a larger approach to the interpretation of culture. Presenting both historical and theoretical arguments in support of a theory that affirms the moral sovereignty of the people, Richards maintains that toleration, or respect for conscience and individual freedom, is the central constitutional ideal. He discusses such current topics of constitutional controversy as church-state relations, the scope of free speech, and the application of the constitutional right to privacy, to abortion, and consensual adult sexual relations.
