Covetous of truth : the life and work of Thomas White, 1593-1676 / by Beverley C. Southgate.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Southgate, Beverley C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

White, Thomas, 1593-1676.

White, Thomas.

Physical Description:

xi, 189 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [1993]

Summary:

This is the first major work devoted to the life and work of Thomas White, an important and wide ranging seventeenth-century thinker long overdue for historical rehabilitation. Renowned in his own day as an eminent philosopher, White's reputation suffered not least as a result of his theological heresies and his pro-Cromwellian political sympathies. But he is here shown as the leader of an influential faction of English Catholics, known after his alias as Blackloists' as a dogged opponent of the then newly-fashionable scepticism; and as a would-be synthesiser of scholastic thought with the new philosophy'. In his Janus-faced intellectual stance White exemplifies the position of many mid-seventeenth-century thinkers; and he is presented here as representing a philosophical standpoint that is crucial for our understanding of a fascinating period in intellectual history.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0792319265

OCLC:

26305437