Philosophy, Science, and Religion in England 1640-1700 / edited by Richard Kroll, Richard Ashcraft, Perez Zagorin.

This collection of essays looks at the distinctively English intellectual, social and political phenomenon of Latitudinarianism, which emerged during the Civil War and Interregnum and came into its own after the Restoration, becoming a virtual orthodoxy after 1688. Dividing into two parts, it first...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Other Authors: Kroll, Richard, Ashcraft, Richard, Zagorin, Perez
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1992.
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Table of Contents:
  • Henry More, the Kabbalah, and the Quakers / Allison P. Coudert
  • Edward Stillingfleet, Henry More, and the decline of Moses Atticus : a note on seventeenth-century Anglican apologetics / Sarah Hutton
  • Latitudinarians, neoplatonists, and the ancient wisdom / Joseph M. Levine
  • Cudworth, More, and the mechanical analogy / Alan Gabbey
  • Cudworth and Hobbes on is and ought / Perez Zagorin
  • Latitudinarianism and toleration : historical myth versus political history / Richard Ashcraft
  • The intellectual sources of Robert Boyle's philosophy of nature : Gassendi's voluntarism, and Boyle's physicotheological project / Margaret J. Osler
  • Latitudinarianism and the "ideology" of the early Royal Society : Thomas Sprat's History of the Royal Society (1667) reconsidered / Michael Hunter
  • Locke and the latitude-men : ignorance as a ground of toleration / G.A.J. Rogers
  • John Locke and latitudinarianism / John Marshall.