The New Philosophy and Universal Languages in Seventeenth-century England: Bacon, Hobbes, and WilkinsBucknell University Press, 1995 - 359 Seiten In all three, a more perfect language comprises both a model and a means for achieving a more perfect philosophy, and that philosophy, in turn, a vehicle for promoting political authority in the state. Those three projects are the new philosophies of Lord Chancellor Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, and Bishop John Wilkins, all of which can be usefully understood in the broader context of the century's cultural politics and in the more specific circumstances of the century's fascination with the construction of a universal language. Bacon, Hobbes, and Wilkins construct philosophies out of deeply held convictions about the need to provide a saving form of knowledge to remedy cultural crises. |
Inhalt
Preface | 9 |
Reconfiguring | 29 |
Natural Philosophy and the Politics of Jacobean Intervention | 55 |
Urheberrecht | |
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