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1 online resource (696 pages). |
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text file |
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Ideas in context ; 113
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Ideas in context ; 113.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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 Drawing on a vast array of sources, Levitin challenges the assumption that interest in ancient ideas was limited to out-of-date 'ancients' or was in some sense 'pre-enlightened'; indeed, much of the intellectual justification for the new philosophy came from re-writing its history.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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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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6.7 The trinitarian controversy6.8 Enlightenment?; 6.9 Conclusion; 7 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Philosophy -- England -- History -- 17th century.
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Philosophy. |
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England. |
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History. |
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17th century |
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern. |
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1600-1699 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Levitin, Dmitri. Ancient wisdom in the age of the new science. 9781107105881 1107105889 (DLC) 2015008921 (OCoLC)907060237 |
| ISBN |
9781316398241 (electronic book) |
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1316398242 (electronic book) |
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9781316398784 (electronic book) |
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1316398781 (electronic book) |
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9781316226612 (electronic book) |
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1316226611 (electronic book) |
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110751374X |
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9781107513747 |
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9781107105881 |
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1107105889 |
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9781107513747 (paperback) |
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1316397165 |
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9781316397169 |
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1316399362 |
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9781316399361 |
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1316399907 |
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9781316399903 |
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1316400441 |
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9781316400449 |
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