David S Sytsma

Richard Baxter and the Mechanical Philosophers

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780190274870
• ISBN-10: 0190274875
• Artikelnr.: 47866378

Autorenporträt

David Sytsma is an assistant professor at Tokyo Christian University and research curator at the Junius Institute for Digital Reformation Research.

Inhaltsangabe

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