British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century.

Cover -- British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The Present Volume -- Scope -- 1: An Age of Transformation -- Case vs Shaftesbury -- Scope and Branches of Philosophy -- Logic -- Ethics -- Natural Philosophy -- Metaphysics -- In with the New -- Moderns and Ancients: New Wine in Old Bottles -- Social Context -- Religion and Philosophy -- 2: Philosophy in the Universities -- The Arts Curriculum -- Philosophy in the Curriculum: General Context -- Rhetoric -- Divinity -- Philosophy Curriculum: Logic -- Proliferation of Logic Textbooks -- Moral Philosophy -- Natural Philosophy -- Metaphysics -- Reform and Innovation: Measuring the Pace of Change -- Religion, Politics, and the Universities -- Dissenting Academies -- 3: Cross-Currents, Conduits, and Conversations -- Conduits: Travel -- Correspondence -- Books and Translations -- Dialogues with the Dead -- Platonism -- Stoicism, Scepticism, and Epicureanism -- Pierre Gassendi -- Hugo Grotius -- René Descartes -- Nicolas Malebranche -- Spinoza -- 4: Aristotelianism and its Enemies -- Scholastic Aristotelianism -- Aristotelianism and the Curriculum -- Expatriate Aristotelianism -- Scotism -- Eclectic Aristotelianism: The Blackloists -- Kenelm Digby -- John Sergeant -- Anti-Aristotelians: Ramists -- William Ames -- Bacon´s Critique of Aristotle -- 5: Bacon and Herbert of Cherbury -- Francis Bacon -- Intellectual Milieu -- Reception -- Edward Herbert (1582-1648) -- Reception of De veritate -- 6: Thomas Hobbes -- Political Philosophy before 1650 -- The Debates of the 1640s -- Hobbes -- Elements of Philosophy -- Passions and Politics -- Morality -- Reception -- Hobbes-Bramhall debate -- Positive Reception -- Margaret Cavendish -- Philosophical Critics -- Reception Abroad -- 7: A Cambridge Enlightenment.

Platonism and British Philosophy -- Theology -- Apologetics -- Epistemology -- Ethics -- Metaphysics -- Influence -- Anne Conway -- Cudworth, Shaftesbury, and Locke -- Richard Cumberland and the Cambridge Enlightenment -- Cumberland and Cambridge Platonism -- 8: From Philosophy to Science -- Science and Religion -- Aristotelianism/Scholasticism -- First Swallows -- Mechanical Philosophy -- Atomism -- Experimentalism -- Natural Philosophy and the Response to Scepticism -- Walter Charleton -- Robert Boyle (1627-1691) -- Boyle´s Corpuscularianism -- Boyle and Scepticism -- Boyle´s Natural Theology -- Boyle´s Influence -- Alternative Hypotheses: Invisible Powers -- Material Powers -- Isaac Newton (1642-1727) -- 9: John Locke -- Biographical Context -- Two Treatises -- Religious Toleration -- Essay Concerning Human Understanding -- Contemporary Reception -- Critics -- Edward Stillingfleet -- Anti-scepticism: Sergeant and Lee -- Catharine Trotter Cockburn -- European Reception -- 10: Freethinkers, Idealists, and Women Philosophers -- Freethinkers -- John Toland (1670-1722) -- Shaftesbury -- Samuel Clarke -- English Malebranchians -- John Norris (1657-1712) -- Women Philosophers: Mary Astell, Damaris Masham, and Catharine Trotter -- Mary Astell -- Damaris Masham -- Catharine Trotter Cockburn (1679-1749) -- Arthur Collier (1680-1732) and George Berkeley (1685-1753) -- Prospect: The Eighteenth Century -- Biographical Appendix -- Bibliography of Books and Articles Consulted -- Reference Works -- Primary Sources -- Studies -- Name Index -- Subject Index.

Sarah Hutton presents a rich historical study of one of the most fertile periods in philosophy. It was in the seventeenth century that Britain first produced philosophers of international stature. Bacon, Hobbes, and Locke, and many other thinkers are shown in their intellectual, social, political, and religious context.

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