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In Light without Heat, David Carroll Simon argues for the importance of carelessness to the literary and scientific experiments of the seventeenth century. While scholars have often looked to this period in order to narrate the triumph of methodical rigor as a quintessentially modern intellectual value, Simon describes the appeal of open-ended receptivity to the protagonists of the new science. In straying from the work of self-possession and the duty to sift fact from fiction, early modern intellectuals discovered the cognitive advantages of the undisciplined mind. Exploring the influence of what he calls the "observational mood" on both poetry and prose, Simon offers new readings of Michel de Montaigne, Francis Bacon, Izaak Walton, Henry Power, Robert Hooke, Robert Boyle, Andrew Marvell, and John Milton. He also extends his inquiry beyond the boundaries of early modernity, arguing for a literary theory that trades strict methodological commitment for an openness to lawless drift.

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Philosophic Pride is the first full-scale look at the essential place of Stoicism in the foundations of modern political thought. Spanning the period from Justus Lipsius's Politics in 1589 to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile in 1762, and concentrating on arguments originating from England, France, and the Netherlands, the book considers how political writers of the period engaged with the ideas of the Roman and Greek Stoics that they found in works by Cicero, Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius. Christopher Brooke examines key texts in their historical context, paying special attention to the history of classical scholarship and the historiography of philosophy. Brooke delves into the persisting tension between Stoicism and the tradition of Augustinian anti-Stoic criticism, which held Stoicism to be a philosophy for the proud who denied their fallen condition. Concentrating on arguments in moral psychology surrounding the foundations of human sociability and self-love, Philosophic Pride details how the engagement with Roman Stoicism shaped early modern political philosophy and offers significant new interpretations of Lipsius and Rousseau together with fresh perspectives on the political thought of Hugo Grotius and Thomas Hobbes. Philosophic Pride shows how the legacy of the Stoics played a vital role in European intellectual life in the early modern era.

Political science --- Philosophy --- History. --- Stoïcisme --- Philosophie politique --- Influence --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Social ethics --- History of philosophy --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Influence. --- Adam and Eve. --- Anthony Ashley Cooper. --- Augustine of Hippo. --- Augustinian. --- Augustinianism. --- Augustinus. --- Benedict Spinoza. --- Bernard Mandeville. --- Blaise Pascal. --- Cambridge Platonists. --- Christianity. --- Ciceronian Stoicism. --- City of God. --- Corneille Jansen. --- David Hume. --- De Constantia. --- De Jure Belli ac Pacis. --- Deism. --- Emile. --- Epictetus. --- Epicureanism. --- Francis Hutcheson. --- Franois de Salignac. --- Franois duc de La Rochefoucauld. --- French Augustinians. --- German idealist philosophy. --- Greek Stoics. --- Hobbism. --- Hugo Grotius. --- Jean-Franois Senault. --- Jean-Jacques Rousseau. --- Johann Franz Buddeus. --- Joseph Butler. --- Justis Lipsius. --- Justus Lipsius. --- Latitudinarians. --- Marcus Aurelius. --- Marxism. --- Michel de Montaigne. --- Neostoicism. --- Niccol Machiavelli. --- Nicolas Malebranche. --- Pierre Bayle. --- Politica. --- Ralph Cudworth. --- Richard Cumberland. --- Roman Stoics. --- Samuel Parker. --- Second Discourse. --- Spinozism. --- Stoic continuity. --- Stoic ethics. --- Stoic moral psychology. --- Stoic philosophy. --- Stoicism. --- Tacitus. --- Thomas Hobbes. --- William Shakespeare. --- amour-propre. --- anti-Stoicism. --- apatheia. --- appetitus societatis. --- atheism. --- classical political economy. --- classical scholarship. --- historical connections. --- human sociability. --- moral psychology. --- natural law. --- natural rights tradition. --- oikeiosis. --- passionlessness. --- philosophical critique. --- political action. --- political thought. --- political writers. --- politics. --- post-Machiavellian prince. --- radical French politics. --- religion. --- self-liking. --- self-love.

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Political moderation is the touchstone of democracy, which could not function without compromise and bargaining, yet it is one of the most understudied concepts in political theory. How can we explain this striking paradox? Why do we often underestimate the virtue of moderation? Seeking to answer these questions, A Virtue for Courageous Minds examines moderation in modern French political thought and sheds light on the French Revolution and its legacy. Aurelian Craiutu begins with classical thinkers who extolled the virtues of a moderate approach to politics, such as Aristotle and Cicero. He then shows how Montesquieu inaugurated the modern rebirth of this tradition by laying the intellectual foundations for moderate government. Craiutu looks at important figures such as Jacques Necker, Madame de Staël, and Benjamin Constant, not only in the context of revolutionary France but throughout Europe. He traces how moderation evolves from an individual moral virtue into a set of institutional arrangements calculated to protect individual liberty, and he explores the deep affinity between political moderation and constitutional complexity. Craiutu demonstrates how moderation navigates between political extremes, and he challenges the common notion that moderation is an essentially conservative virtue, stressing instead its eclectic nature. Drawing on a broad range of writings in political theory, the history of political thought, philosophy, and law, A Virtue for Courageous Minds reveals how the virtue of political moderation can address the profound complexities of the world today.

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