Atheism In France 1650 1729 Volume I

Author : Alan Charles Kors
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 409 pages
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Release : 2014-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400860791

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Atheism in France, 1650-1729, Volume I by Alan Charles Kors Pdf

Although most historians have sought the roots of atheism in the history of "free thought," Alan Charles Kors contends that attacks on the existence of God were generated above all by the vitality and controversies of orthodox theistic culture itself. In this first volume of a planned two-volume inquiry into the sources and nature of atheism, he shows that orthodox teachers and apologists in seventeenth-century France were obliged by the logic of their philosophical and pedagogical systems to create many models of speculative atheism for heuristic purposes. Unusual in its broad sampling of the religious literature of the early-modern learned world, this book reveals that the "great fratricide" among bitterly competing schools of Aristotelian, Cartesian, and Malebranchist Christian thought encouraged theologians to refute each other's proofs of God and to depict the ideas of their theological opponents as atheistic. Such "fratricide" was not new in the history of Christendom, but Kors demonstrates that its influence was dramatically amplified by the expanding literacy of the seventeenth century. Capturing the attention of the reading public, theological debate provided intellectual grounds for the disbelief of the first generation of atheistic thinkers. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Alan Charles Kors
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:797842712

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Author : Alan Charles Kors
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0691055750

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Atheism in France, 1650-1729: The orthodox sources of disbelief by Alan Charles Kors Pdf

Although most historians have sought the roots of atheism in the history of "free thought," Alan Charles Kors contends that attacks on the existence of God were generated above all by the vitality and controversies of orthodox theistic culture itself. In this first volume of a planned two-volume inquiry into the sources and nature of atheism, he shows that orthodox teachers and apologists in seventeenth-century France were obliged by the logic of their philosophical and pedagogical systems to create many models of speculative atheism for heuristic purposes. Unusual in its broad sampling of the religious literature of the early-modern learned world, this book reveals that the "great fratricide" among bitterly competing schools of Aristotelian, Cartesian, and Malebranchist Christian thought encouraged theologians to refute each other's proofs of God and to depict the ideas of their theological opponents as atheistic. Such "fratricide" was not new in the history of Christendom, but Kors demonstrates that its influence was dramatically amplified by the expanding literacy of the seventeenth century. Capturing the attention of the reading public, theological debate provided intellectual grounds for the disbelief of the first generation of atheistic thinkers. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Alan Charles Kors
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107132641

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Epicureans and Atheists in France, 1650-1729 by Alan Charles Kors Pdf

This book describes how French Christian culture allowed the dissemination of Epicureanism, which denied divine design. In its wake, an assertive atheism appeared.

Author : Alan Charles Kors
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107106635

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Naturalism and Unbelief in France, 1650-1729 by Alan Charles Kors Pdf

This book shows how absolute naturalism, deciphering nature without reference to God, emerged from the inheritance, dynamics and debates of orthodox culture.

Author : Alan Charles Kors
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Atheism
ISBN : OCLC:1014857305

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Atheism in France, 1650-1729 by Alan Charles Kors Pdf

Author : Alan Charles Kors
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1990-12-01
Category : Atheism
ISBN : OCLC:313455248

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Atheism in France by Alan Charles Kors Pdf

Author : Michael Hunter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009268752

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Atheists and Atheism before the Enlightenment by Michael Hunter Pdf

Anxiety about the threat of atheism was rampant in the early modern period, yet fully documented examples of openly expressed irreligious opinion are surprisingly rare. England and Scotland saw only a handful of such cases before 1750, and this book offers a detailed analysis of three of them. Thomas Aikenhead was executed for his atheistic opinions at Edinburgh in 1697; Tinkler Ducket was convicted of atheism by the Vice-Chancellor's court at the University of Cambridge in 1739; whereas Archibald Pitcairne's overtly atheist tract, Pitcairneana, though evidently compiled very early in the eighteenth century, was first published only in 2016. Drawing on these, and on the better-known apostacy of Christopher Marlowe and the Earl of Rochester, Michael Hunter argues that such atheists showed real 'assurance' in publicly promoting their views. This contrasts with the private doubts of Christian believers, and this book demonstrates that the two phenomena are quite distinct, even though they have sometimes been wrongly conflated.

Author : Kenneth Williford
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351616836

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Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by Kenneth Williford Pdf

David Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is a philosophical and literary classic of the highest order. It is also an extremely relevant work because of its engagement with issues as alive today as in Hume’s time: the Design Argument for a deity, the Problem of Evil, the dangers of superstition and fanaticism, the psychological roots and social consequences of religion. In this outstanding and unorthodox collection, an international team of scholars engage with Hume’s classic work. The chapters include state-of-the-art contributions on the central interpretive questions posed by the Dialogues as well as major contributions relating the work to contemporary issues in Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Science, Moral Psychology, and Social Philosophy. Additional contributions tackle the historical and philosophical background of the Dialogues, relating it to Hume’s own systematic philosophy, to the work of other key seventeenth and eighteenth-century figures – Locke, Clarke, Bayle, Cudworth, Malebranche, Spinoza, Lord Bolingbroke, and Voltaire, among others – to early modern neo-Epicureanism in the life sciences, and, notably, to what Darwin missed by thinking too much like William Paley and not enough like Hume’s Philo. Overall, this volume provides fresh and even groundbreaking perspectives on Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. It is essential reading for students and scholars of Hume, the History of Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion and the History and Philosophy of Science.

Author : Wayne Hudson,Diego Lucci
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317177586

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Atheism and Deism Revalued by Wayne Hudson,Diego Lucci Pdf

Given the central role played by religion in early-modern Britain, it is perhaps surprising that historians have not always paid close attention to the shifting and nuanced subtleties of terms used in religious controversies. In this collection particular attention is focussed upon two of the most contentious of these terms: ’atheism’ and ’deism’, terms that have shaped significant parts of the scholarship on the Enlightenment. This volume argues that in the seventeenth and eighteenth century atheism and deism involved fine distinctions that have not always been preserved by later scholars. The original deployment and usage of these terms were often more complicated than much of the historical scholarship suggests. Indeed, in much of the literature static definitions are often taken for granted, resulting in depictions of the past constructed upon anachronistic assumptions. Offering reassessments of the historical figures most associated with ’atheism’ and ’deism’ in early modern Britain, this collection opens the subject up for debate and shows how the new historiography of deism changes our understanding of heterodox religious identities in Britain from 1650 to 1800. It problematises the older view that individuals were atheist or deists in a straightforward sense and instead explores the plurality and flexibility of religious identities during this period. Drawing on the most recent scholarship, the volume enriches the debate about heterodoxy, offering new perspectives on a range of prominent figures and providing an overview of major changes in the field.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Librairie Droz
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2600002464

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Diderot studies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stephen Bullivant,Michael Ruse
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 781 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199644650

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The Oxford Handbook of Atheism by Stephen Bullivant,Michael Ruse Pdf

This handbook is a pioneering edited volume, exploring atheism - understood in the broad sense of 'an absence of belief in the existence of a God or gods' - in its historical and contemporary expressions. It probes the varied manifestations and implications of unbelief from an array of disciplinary perspectives and in a range of global contexts.

Author : Anton M. Matytsin,Dan Edelstein
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781421426020

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Let There Be Enlightenment by Anton M. Matytsin,Dan Edelstein Pdf

Challenging the triumphalist narrative of Enlightenment secularism. According to most scholars, the Enlightenment was a rational awakening, a radical break from a past dominated by religion and superstition. But in Let There Be Enlightenment, Anton M. Matytsin, Dan Edelstein, and the contributors they have assembled deftly undermine this simplistic narrative. Emphasizing the ways in which religious beliefs and motivations shaped philosophical perspectives, essays in this book highlight figures and topics often overlooked in standard genealogies of the Enlightenment. The volume underscores the prominent role that religious discourses continued to play in major aspects of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century thought. The essays probe a wide range of subjects, from reformer Jan Amos Comenius’s quest for universal enlightenment to the changing meanings of the light metaphor, Quaker influences on Baruch Spinoza’s theology, and the unexpected persistence of Aristotle in the Enlightenment. Exploring the emergence of historical consciousness among Enlightenment thinkers while examining their repeated insistence on living in an enlightened age, the collection also investigates the origins and the long-term dynamics of the relationship between faith and reason. Providing an overview of the rich spectrum of eighteenth-century culture, the authors demonstrate that religion was central to Enlightenment thought. The term “enlightenment” itself had a deeply religious connotation. Rather than revisiting the celebrated breaks between the eighteenth century and the period that preceded it, Let There Be Enlightenment reveals the unacknowledged continuities that connect the Enlightenment to its various antecedents. Contributors: Philippe Buc, William J. Bulman, Jeffrey D. Burson, Charly Coleman, Dan Edelstein, Matthew T. Gaetano, Howard Hotson, Anton M. Matytsin, Darrin M. McMahon, James Schmidt, Céline Spector, Jo Van Cauter

Author : David Newheiser
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226822686

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The Varieties of Atheism by David Newheiser Pdf

Thoughtful essays to revive dialogue about atheism beyond belief. The Varieties of Atheism reveals the diverse nonreligious experiences obscured by the combative intellectualism of Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens. In fact, contributors contend that narrowly defining atheism as the belief that there is no god misunderstands religious and nonreligious persons altogether. The essays show that, just as religion exceeds doctrine, atheism also encompasses every dimension of human life: from imagination and feeling to community and ethics. Contributors offer new, expansive perspectives on atheism’s diverse history and possible futures. By recovering lines of affinity and tension between particular atheists and particular religious traditions, this book paves the way for fruitful conversation between religious and non-religious people in our secular age.

Author : Nathaniel Wolloch
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 982 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004508040

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Moderate and Radical Liberalism by Nathaniel Wolloch Pdf

A new reading of a crucial chapter in the history of social and political thought – the transition from the late Enlightenment to early liberalism.