JONATHAN EDWARDSS PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE
Zakai Avihu
Oprawa:
MIĘKKA
Wydawca:
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
ISBN:
9780567356703
Opis produktu
Avihu Zakai is Professor of early modern history and early American history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His fields of interest are Protestant religious history in both Europe and America in the early modern period from the Protestant Reformation to the Great Awakening in America. In the past he published several books with among others Cambridge University Press and Princeton University Press.First major study of Edwards philosophy of natureSheds fresh light on one of the most important thinkers of early modern philosophy and theologyAvihu Zakai is Professor of early modern history and early American history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His fields of interest are Protestant religious history in both Europe and America in the early modern period from the Protestant Reformation to the Great Awakening in America. In the past he published several books with among others Cambridge University Press and Princeton University Press.Jonathan Edwardss Philosophy of Nature: The ReEnchantment of the World in the Age of Scientific Reasoning analyses the works of Jonathan Edwards (17031758) on natural philosophy in a series of contexts within which they may best be explored and understood. Its aim is to place Edwardss writings on natural philosophy in the broad historical theological and scientific context of a wide variety of religious responses to the rise of modern science in the early modern period John Donnes reaction to the new astronomical philosophy of Copernicus Kepler and Galileo as well as to Francis Bacons new natural philosophy: Blaise Pascals response to Descartes mechanical philosophy: the reactions to Newtonian science and finally Jonathan Edwardss response to the scientific culture and imagination of his time.This study of Jonathan Edwards philosophy of sheds fresh light on one of the most important thinkers of early modern philosophy and theology.I. Philosophia ancilla theologiae: Science and Religion in Jonathan Edwardss Thought 1. philosophia ancilla theologiae 2. Edwardss Typological and Emblematic View of the World of Nature 3. The Great Chain of Being 4. The God of Mechanical Philosophers 5. The School of śPhysicoTheology 6. Edwards and the School of PhysicoTheology II. The Rise of Modern Science and the Decline of Theology as the śQueen of Sciences 1. Regina Scientiarum theology as the śQueen of Sciences 2. Copernicus śAstronomy is written for astronomers 3. Kepler The new Physica Coelestis (Celestial Physics) 4. Galileo The Book of Nature śis written in the language of mathematics III. śAll Coherence Gone Donne and the śNew Philosophy of Nature 1. The New scientia naturalis 2. Science Fears Doubts and Anxieties 3. John Donne and the śnew Philosophy a) śDoubts and Anxieties: Ignatius His Conclave: b) śAll Coherence Gone: The First Anniversarie IV. śGod of Abraham and śnot of philosophers: Pascal against the Philosophers Disenchantment of the World 1. śThe Eternal Silence of These InfWymiary: 234 mm 156 mm 481 gr
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