Richard Baxter, one of the seventeenth century's most famous Puritans, is known as an author of devotional literature. But he was also skilled in medieval philosophy. In this book, David Sytsma draws on largely unexamined works to present a chronogolical and thematic account of Baxter's relation to the people and concepts involved in the rise of mechanical philosophy in late-seventeenth-century England.
Richard Baxter, one of the seventeenth century's most famous Puritans, is known as an author of devotional literature. But he was also skilled in medieval philosophy. In this book, David Sytsma draws on largely unexamined works to present a chronogolical and thematic account of Baxter's relation to the people and concepts involved in the rise of mechanical philosophy in late-seventeenth-century England.
David Sytsma is an assistant professor at Tokyo Christian University and research curator at the Junius Institute for Digital Reformation Research.
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Abbreviations Preface I. Richard Baxter as Philosophical Theologian II. Baxter and the Rise of Mechanical Philosophy The Reception of Gassendi's Christian Epicureanism in England Baxter's Early Response to Hobbes' Leviathan The Beginning of Baxter's Restoration Polemics Matthew Hale and the Growth of Baxter's Polemics On the "Epicurean" Ethics of Hobbes and Spinoza Baxter and Henry More Conclusion III. Reason and Philosophy Works on Reason The Nature and States of Reason Reason and Will Reason in the State of Sin Reason and Revelation The Use and Limits of Philosophy Conclusion IV. A Trinitarian Natural Philosophy I. Theological Motivations God's Two Books Mosaic Physics Vestigia Trinitatis Trinitarian Analogy of Being II. Trinities in Nature Baxter's Eclectic Reception of Tommaso Campanella Threefold Causality Passive Nature Active Nature Conclusion V. A Commotion over Motion Copernicanism The Nature of Motion Substantial Form Descartes' Laws of Motion Henry More's "Mixt Mechanicall Philosophy" Conclusion VI. The Incipient Materialism of Mechanical Philosophy Mechanical Philosophy and the Immaterial Soul Henry More's "Slippery Ground" and Pierre Gassendi's "Feeble" Proofs Pierre Gassendi, Thomas Willis, and the Material Soul Conclusion VII. From "Epicurean" Physics to Ethics Baxter and Reformed Natural-Law Theory The Specter of Necessitarianism The Problem of Naturalistic Natural Law Conclusion VIII. Conclusion Appendix A Chronology of Baxter's Post-Restoration Writings on Philosophy Appendix B Richard Baxter to Joseph Glanvill, 18 November 1670 Appendix C Richard Baxter on Thomas Willis, De anima brutorum (1672) Bibliography
Abbreviations Preface I. Richard Baxter as Philosophical Theologian II. Baxter and the Rise of Mechanical Philosophy The Reception of Gassendi's Christian Epicureanism in England Baxter's Early Response to Hobbes' Leviathan The Beginning of Baxter's Restoration Polemics Matthew Hale and the Growth of Baxter's Polemics On the "Epicurean" Ethics of Hobbes and Spinoza Baxter and Henry More Conclusion III. Reason and Philosophy Works on Reason The Nature and States of Reason Reason and Will Reason in the State of Sin Reason and Revelation The Use and Limits of Philosophy Conclusion IV. A Trinitarian Natural Philosophy I. Theological Motivations God's Two Books Mosaic Physics Vestigia Trinitatis Trinitarian Analogy of Being II. Trinities in Nature Baxter's Eclectic Reception of Tommaso Campanella Threefold Causality Passive Nature Active Nature Conclusion V. A Commotion over Motion Copernicanism The Nature of Motion Substantial Form Descartes' Laws of Motion Henry More's "Mixt Mechanicall Philosophy" Conclusion VI. The Incipient Materialism of Mechanical Philosophy Mechanical Philosophy and the Immaterial Soul Henry More's "Slippery Ground" and Pierre Gassendi's "Feeble" Proofs Pierre Gassendi, Thomas Willis, and the Material Soul Conclusion VII. From "Epicurean" Physics to Ethics Baxter and Reformed Natural-Law Theory The Specter of Necessitarianism The Problem of Naturalistic Natural Law Conclusion VIII. Conclusion Appendix A Chronology of Baxter's Post-Restoration Writings on Philosophy Appendix B Richard Baxter to Joseph Glanvill, 18 November 1670 Appendix C Richard Baxter on Thomas Willis, De anima brutorum (1672) Bibliography
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