The Third Force in Seventeenth Century Thought

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BRILL, 1992 - 377 pagina's
This volume consists of more than twenty articles by Richard H. Popkin on the history of modern philosophy, written between 1980 and 1990, including several not published before this. The topics covered in these studies range over religious and theological influences in modern philosophy, further material in the history of scepticism dealing with Hobbes, Henry More and Pascal, as well as Moritz Schlick, new findings about Spinoza, pre-Adamism, Ralph Cudworth, Isaac Newton's religious views, 18th century racism, and the liberalism of Condorcet.
 

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Introduction
1
Condorcet Abolitionist
50
Humes Racism Reconsidered
64
Condorcet and Hume and Turgot
76
Scepticism Science and Millenarianism 320
90
Spinozas Relations with the Quakers in Amsterdam
120
Spinoza and the Three Imposters
135
The Marranos of Amsterdam
149
Some Unresolved Questions in the History of Scepticism
222
Scepticism Old and New
223
The Scepticism of Joseph Glanvill
246
Schlick and Scepticism
254
The Religious Background of SeventeenthCentury Phil osophy
268
Predicting Prophecying Divining and Foretelling from Nostradamus to Hume
285
An Aspect of the Problem of Religious Freedom in the French and American Revolutions
308
Cudworth
333

Newtons Biblical Theology and his Theological Physics
172
Newton and Maimonides
189
The Incurable Scepticism of Henry More Blaise Pas cal and Søren Kierkegaard
203
Roads that Led Beyond Judaism and Christianity
351
Index of Names
371
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Overige edities - Alles bekijken

The Third Force in Seventeenth-Century Thought
Richard H. Popkin
Gedeeltelijke weergave - 1991
The Third Force in Seventeenth-century Thought
Richard Henry Popkin
Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 1992

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Over de auteur (1992)

Richard H. Popkin is presently Professor Emeritus, Washington University, St. Louis and Adjunct Professor History and Philosophy at UCLA. Recent publications: "Isaac La Peyrere, his Life, his Work, his Influence" (Brill, 1987); "Millenarianism and Thought 1650-1800," (Brill, ed. 1988), and "Menasseh ben Israel and his World" (Brill, ed. with Y. Kaplan and H. Mechoulan, 1989).

Bibliografische gegevens

TitelThe Third Force in Seventeenth Century Thought
Volume 22 van Brill's studies in intellectual history / Brill's studies in intellectual history
AuteurRichard Henry Popkin
UitgeverBRILL, 1992
ISBN9004093249, 9789004093249
Lengte377 pagina's
  
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