The Seventeenth Century Background: Studies in the Thought of the Age in Relation to Poetry and Religion, المجلد 10Doubleday, 1953 - 316 من الصفحات Cambridge Professor Basil Willey wrote this volume as a companion to his preceding work on the Seventeenth Century Background. Whereas the 17th C. key word was "Truth," he maintains the 18th C key word was "Nature." Organized in 12 chapters including "The Wisdom of God in the Creation, Cosmic Toryism, Natural Morality--Shaftesbury, Nature in Satire, Jos. Priestley and the Socinian Moonlight, and Nature in Wordsworth. |
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THE REJECTION OF SCHOLASTICISM | 11 |
BACON AND THE REHABILITATION | 32 |
SIR THOMAS BROWNE | 49 |
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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
abstract Adam agery allegory amongst ancient Aristotle atheism attributes Bacon belief Bible body Bohn Browne Browne's Cambridge Platonists Cartesian cause certainty Christian conceive consciousness Cudworth Deism Descartes divine doctrine Dryden eighteenth century ence Essay evil existence explanation external fables fact faith fancy feel felt fiction Galileo Glanvill Glanvill's God's hath Heaven heroic poem Hobbes Hobbes's holy human I. A. Richards ibid ideas imagination intellectual italics Joseph Glanvill kind knowledge Leviathan Locke Locke's matter means mechanical ment metaphysical Milton mind modern moral motion nature objects opinion Paradise Lost phantasms philosophy Platonic poetic poetry poets principle prose qualities rational rationalising realisation reality Reason religion religious Renaissance revelation Sadducismus Triumphatus Satan scholasticism scientific Scripture sect seems sense seventeenth century Smith soul spirit supernatural teenth century Tertullian theology theory things thought tion tradition true truth universe virtue words Wordsworth writes