Kenelm Digby S Two Treatises

Author : Paul S. MacDonald
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 556 pages
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Release : 2013
Category : Atomism
ISBN : 9781291509229

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Kenelm Digby's Two Treatises by Paul S. MacDonald Pdf

Philosopher, alchemist, and privateer, Kenelm Digby (1603-1665) cut a striking figure across Europe in the middle of the 17th century. Digby corresponded with Galileo, Descartes, Gassendi, Gilbert and Harvey, and was one of the founding members of the Royal Society. In 1644 he published his major philosophical work, Two Treatises: Of Bodies and of Man's Soul - the first comprehensive philosophical work in the English language. In the Two Treatises Digby discussed at length a vast array of philosophical ideas: elements, matter, mechanism, motion, force and causation, as well as sensation, perception, memory, imagination, intellect, reason, and immortality. MacDonald's edition is the first scholarly edition of this great work since it went out of print in 1669: it offers a normalized text, copious annotations, and a lengthy introduction which situates Digby's ideas in the currents of 17th century philosophical thought.

Author : Kenelm Digby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 518 pages
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Release : 1644
Category : Atomism
ISBN : IBUR:BU101024976

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Two Treatises by Kenelm Digby Pdf

Author : Davida Rubin
Publisher : Norman Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Medicine
ISBN : 0930405293

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Sir Kenelm Digby, F.R.S., 1603-1665 by Davida Rubin Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
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Release : 1712
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1125500957

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Two Treatises by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kenelm Digby
Publisher : Frommann-Holzboog
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 1970-12-31
Category : Immortality
ISBN : 3772801056

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Two Treatises, in the One of Which the Nature of Bodies; In the Other the Nature of Mans Soule Is Looked Into by Kenelm Digby Pdf

Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-1665) ist eine der Hauptgestalten des 17. Jhs. Mit Descartes und Hobbes verband ihn Freundschaft. Digby steht am Beginn der englischen Descartes-Rezeption. In seinem Werk Two Treatises unternimmt er den Versuch, die Gegensatze zwischen der aristotelischen Schule, den Vertretern einer mechanistischen Weltauffassung und dem kontinentalen Idealismus seiner Zeit auszugleichen. Er entwickelt in diesem Zusammenhang eine differenzierte Korpuskulartheorie, analysiert den Erkenntnisvorgang und den Substanzbegriff, um daraus schliesslich einen Beweis fur die Unsterblichkeit der Seele abzuleiten.

Author : Kenelm Digby
Publisher : Facsimiles-Garl
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Immortality
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037309023

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Two Treatises by Kenelm Digby Pdf

Author : Laura Georgescu,Han Thomas Adriaenssen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030998226

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The Philosophy of Kenelm Digby (1603–1665) by Laura Georgescu,Han Thomas Adriaenssen Pdf

This book examines the philosophical and scientific achievements of Sir Kenelm Digby, a successful English diplomat, privateer and natural philosopher of the mid-1600s. Not widely remembered today, Digby is one of the most intriguing figures in the history of early modern philosophers. Among scholars, he is known for his attempt to reconcile what perhaps seem to be irreconcilable philosophical frameworks: Aristotelianism and early modern mechanism. This contributed volume offers the first full-length treatment of Digby’s work and of the unique position he occupied in early modern intellectual history. It explores key aspects of Digby’s metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophical method, and offers a new appraisal of his contributions to early modern natural philosophy and mathematics. A dozen contributors offer their expert insight into such topics as Body, quantity, and measures in Digby's natural philosophy Ecumenism and common notions in Digby Aristotelianism and accidents in Digby's philosophy Digby on body and soul Digby on method and experiments This book volume will be of benefit to a broad audience of scholars, educators, and students of the history of early modern science and philosophy.

Author : Kenelm Digby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:904826149

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Two Treatises by Kenelm Digby Pdf

"... First scholarly edition of this great work since it went out of print in 1669: it offers a normalized text, copious annotations, and a lengthy introduction which situates Digby's ideas in the currents of 17th century philosophical thought"--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Kenelm Digby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1657
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0025741659

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Two Treatises. In the One of Which, the Nature of Bodies; in the Other, the Nature of Mans Soule; is Looked Into: in Way of Discovery, of the Immortality of Reasonable Soules by Kenelm Digby Pdf

Author : Cassandra Gorman
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843845935

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The Atom in Seventeenth-century Poetry by Cassandra Gorman Pdf

An investigation into the remarkable "poetics of the atom" in English literary texts from the mid to late seventeenth century. The early modern "atom" - understood as an indivisible particle of matter - captured the poetic imagination in ways that extended far beyond the reception of Lucretius and Epicurean atomism. Contrarily to fears of atomisation and materialist threat, many poets and philosophers of the period sought positive, spiritual motivation in the concept of material indivisibility. This book traces the metaphysical import of these poetic atoms, teasing out an affinity between poetic and atomic forms in seventeenth-century texts. In the writings of Henry More, Thomas Traherne, Margaret Cavendish, Hester Pulter and Lucy Hutchinson, both atoms and poems were instrumental in acts of creating, ordering and reconstructing knowledge. Their poems emerge as exquisitely self-conscious atomic forms, producing intimate reflections on the creative power and indivisibility of self, soul and God. The book begins with a survey of the imaginative possibilities surrounding the early modern "atom", before considering the indivisible centres of the Cambridge Platonist Henry More's cosmic, Spenserian poetics. The focus then turns to the lyrical bond formed between atom and soul in the writings of Thomas Traherne, and from there, to the experimental sequences of Margaret Cavendish and Hester Pulter, whose poetic spaces create new worlds and imagine alternative lives. The book concludes with a study of Lucy Hutchinson's creation poem Order and Disorder, which anticipates the regeneration of fallen being in atomic and alchemical terms.

Author : Kenelm Digby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1645
Category : Atomism
ISBN : UCD:31175034882590

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Two Treatises: in the One of Which, the Nature of Bodies; in the Other, the Nature of Mans Soule, is Looked Into by Kenelm Digby Pdf

Author : Eric Schliesser
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199928880

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Sympathy by Eric Schliesser Pdf

Our modern-day word for sympathy is derived from the classical Greek word for fellow-feeling. Both in the vernacular as well as in the various specialist literatures within philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, economics, and history, "sympathy" and "empathy" are routinely conflated. In practice, they are also used to refer to a large variety of complex, all-too-familiar social phenomena: for example, simultaneous yawning or the giggles. Moreover, sympathy is invoked to address problems associated with social dislocation and political conflict. It is, then, turned into a vehicle toward generating harmony among otherwise isolated individuals and a way for them to fit into a larger whole, be it society and the universe. This volume offers a historical overview of some of the most significant attempts to come to grips with sympathy in Western thought from Plato to experimental economics. The contributors are leading scholars in philosophy, classics, history, economics, comparative literature, and political science. Sympathy is originally developed in Stoic thought. It was also taken up by Plotinus and Galen. There are original contributed chapters on each of these historical moments. Use for the concept was re-discovered in the Renaissance. And the volume has original chapters not just on medical and philosophical Renaissance interest in sympathy, but also on the role of antipathy in Shakespeare and the significance of sympathy in music theory. Inspired by the influence of Spinoza, sympathy plays a central role in the great moral psychologies of, say, Anne Conway, Leibniz, Hume, Adam Smith, and Sophie De Grouchy during the eighteenth century. The volume offers an introduction to key background concepts that are often overlooked in many of the most important philosophies of the early modern period. About a century ago the idea of Einfühlung (or empathy) was developed in theoretical philosophy, then applied in practical philosophy and the newly emerging scientific disciplines of psychology. Moreover, recent economists have rediscovered sympathy in part experimentally and, in part by careful re-reading of the classics of the field.

Author : Erica Fudge
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501727191

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Brutal Reasoning by Erica Fudge Pdf

Early modern English thinkers were fascinated by the subject of animal rationality, even before the appearance of Descartes's Discourse on the Method (1637) and its famous declaration of the automatism of animals. But as Erica Fudge relates in Brutal Reasoning, the discussions were not as straightforward—or as reflexively anthropocentric—as has been assumed. Surveying a wide range of texts-religious, philosophical, literary, even comic-Fudge explains the crucial role that reason played in conceptualizations of the human and the animal, as well as the distinctions between the two. Brutal Reasoning looks at the ways in which humans were conceptualized, at what being "human" meant, and at how humans could lose their humanity. It also takes up the questions of what made an animal an animal, why animals were studied in the early modern period, and at how people understood, and misunderstood, what they saw when they did look. From the influence of classical thinking on the human-animal divide and debates surrounding the rationality of women, children, and Native Americans to the frequent references in popular and pedagogical texts to Morocco the Intelligent Horse, Fudge gives a new and vital context to the human perception of animals in this period. At the same time, she challenges overly simplistic notions about early modern attitudes to animals and about the impact of those attitudes on modern culture.

Author : Michael Martin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317104414

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Literature and the Encounter with God in Post-Reformation England by Michael Martin Pdf

Each of the figures examined in this study”John Dee, John Donne, Sir Kenelm Digby, Henry and Thomas Vaughan, and Jane Lead”is concerned with the ways in which God can be approached or experienced. Michael Martin analyzes the ways in which the encounter with God is figured among these early modern writers who inhabit the shared cultural space of poets and preachers, mystics and scientists. The three main themes that inform this study are Cura animarum, the care of souls, and the diminished role of spiritual direction in post-Reformation religious life; the rise of scientific rationality; and the struggle against the disappearance of the Holy. Arising from the methods and commitments of phenomenology, the primary mode of inquiry of this study resides in contemplation, not in a religious sense, but in the realm of perception, attendance, and acceptance. Martin portrays figures such as Dee, Digby, and Thomas Vaughan not as the eccentrics they are often depicted to have been, but rather as participating in a religious mainstream that had been radically altered by the disappearance of any kind of mandatory or regular spiritual direction, a problem which was further complicated and exacerbated by the rise of science. Thus this study contributes to a reconfiguration of our notion of what ’religious orthodoxy’ really meant during the period, and calls into question our own assumptions about what is (or was) ’orthodox’ and ’heterodox.’

Author : Peter Remien
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108496810

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The Concept of Nature in Early Modern English Literature by Peter Remien Pdf

Participates in an intellectual history of ecology while prompting a re-evaluation of nature in the early modern period.