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Psychiatry. --- Science --- English philosophy --- Philosophy. --- Wittgenstein, Ludwig,
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Philosophy, British. --- Philosophy, English. --- British philosophy --- Philosophy, English --- English philosophy --- Philosophy, British --- Book history --- History of civilization --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- anno 1500-1599 --- England
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Collapsing buildings, unexpected meetings in the marketplace, monstrous births, encounters with pirates at sea—these and other unforeseen “accidents” at the turn of the seventeenth century in England acquired unprecedented significance in the early modern philosophical and cultural imagination. Drawing on intellectual history, cultural criticism, and rhetorical theory, this book chronicles the narrative transformation of “accident” from a philosophical dead end to an astonishing occasion for revelation and wonder in early modern religious life, dramatic practice, and experimental philosophy. Embracing the notion that accident was a concept with both learned and popular appeal, the book traces its evolution through Aristotelian, Scholastic, and Calvinist thought into a range of early modern texts. It suggests that for many English writers, accidental events raised fundamental questions about the nature of order in the world and the way that order should be apprehended. Alongside texts by such canonical figures as Shakespeare and Bacon, this study draws on several lesser-known authors of sensational news accounts about accidents that occurred around the turn of the seventeenth century. The result is a cultural anatomy of accidents as philosophical problem, theatrical conceit, spiritual landmark, and even a prototype for Baconian “experiment,” one that provides a fresh interpretation of the early modern engagement with contingency in intellectual and cultural terms.
Accidents --- Philosophy, English. --- English philosophy --- Philosophy, British --- Common accidents --- Injuries --- Diseases --- First aid in illness and injury --- Violent deaths --- Disasters --- Emergencies --- History. --- Causes and theories of causation
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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.
Philosophy, English --- Animals (Philosophy) --- Philosophical anthropology --- Anthropology, Philosophical --- Man (Philosophy) --- Civilization --- Life --- Ontology --- Humanism --- Persons --- Philosophy of mind --- Philosophy --- English philosophy --- Philosophy, British --- History.
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English prose literature --- American prose literature --- Philosophy, American --- Philosophy, English --- Romanticism --- Literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Literature --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- English philosophy --- Philosophy, British --- Pseudo-romanticism --- Romanticism in literature --- Aesthetics --- Fiction --- Literary movements --- English literature --- Literature and philosophy --- Philosophy and literature --- History and criticism. --- Philosophy. --- History and criticism --- Philosophy --- Theory
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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.
Philosophy, English --- Philosophy, English. --- Digby, Kenelm, --- English philosophy --- Philosophy, British --- Digby, Kenelmus --- Dygby, Kenelmus --- Philosophy --- Philosophy. --- Ontology. --- Philosophy of mind. --- Language and languages --- History of Philosophy. --- Philosophy of Mind. --- Philosophy of Language. --- History. --- Mind, Philosophy of --- Mind, Theory of --- Theory of mind --- Cognitive science --- Metaphysics --- Philosophical anthropology --- Being --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Substance (Philosophy) --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities
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Philosophy. --- Philosophy --- Philosophy, English --- Zeitschrift --- Periodikum --- Zeitschriften --- Presse --- Fortlaufendes Sammelwerk --- English philosophy --- Philosophy, British --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Locke, John, --- Locke, John --- Locke, John. --- Locke, John, 1632-1704. --- Philanthropus, --- Lokk, Dzhon, --- Lūk, Jūn, --- Lo-kʻo, --- Locke, Giovanni, --- Lock, --- Lock, John, --- Rokku, Jon, --- Locke, Johann --- Locke, Johannes --- Locke, Jean --- Locke, Giovanni --- Locke --- Lock, John --- Lock, Johann --- Lock, Jean --- Lock --- Lockius, Johannes --- Lockius, Iohannes --- Lockius, Ioannes --- Lokkius, Johannes --- Loct, Johann --- Lokk, Džon --- Lokk, Dzhon --- Lokkius, Joh. --- Loke, Johann --- Lūk, Jūn --- Rokku, Jon --- Philanthropus --- P. A. P. O. I. L. A. --- Pacis Amico Persecutionis Osore Iohanne Locke Anglo --- Philosoph --- 1632-1704 --- 29.08.1632-28.10.1704 --- Philosophy, English. --- 1600-1699 --- Lokk, Džon --- Lūk, Jūn --- לוק, י׳ון,
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