Lucretian Thought in Late Stuart England: Debates about the Nature of the Soul

Lucretian Thought in Late Stuart England: Debates about the Nature of the Soul
Author: L. Linker
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2013-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137399880

How did writers understand the soul in late seventeenth-century England? This book considers depictions of the soul in literary texts that engage with Lucretius's Epicurean philosophy in De rerum natura or through the writings of the most important natural philosopher to disseminate Epicurean atomism in England, Walter Charleton (1619-1707).

Biblical Scholarship, Science and Politics in Early Modern England

Biblical Scholarship, Science and Politics in Early Modern England
Author: Kevin Killeen
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780754657309

Kevin Killeen addresses one of the most enigmatic of seventeenth century writers, Thomas Browne (1605-1682), whose voracious intellectual pursuits provide an unparalleled insight into how early modern scholarly culture understood the relations of science, politics and religion. The book centres on a reassessment of Browne's most elaborate text, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, his vast encyclopaedia of error and through this explores the multivalent nature of early-modern enquiry.

A Companion to Early Modern Philosophy

A Companion to Early Modern Philosophy
Author: Steven Nadler
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 675
Release: 2008-04-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0470998830

This is a reference for early modern philosophy. Representing the most contemporary research in the history of early modern philosophy, it is organized by thinker rather than theme, and covers every important philosopher and philosophical movement of 16th- and 18th-century Europe.

Optics After Newton

Optics After Newton
Author: G. N. Cantor
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 1983
Genre: Light
ISBN: 9780719009389

Insiders and Outsiders in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy

Insiders and Outsiders in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy
Author: G.A.J. Rogers
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2009-10-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1135227527

Seventeenth-century philosophy scholars come together in this volume to address the Insiders--Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, and Hobbes--and Outsiders--Gassendi, Digby, Gale, Cudworth and Malebranche--of the philosocial canon. Contrasting the Insiders’ receptions with those of the Outsiders, this collection gives new insight into the history of philosophy.