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Regimens of the mind : Boyle, Locke, and the early modern cultura animi tradition / Sorana Corneanu.
LIBRA B1131 .C67 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Corneanu, Sorana.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
- Philosophy, British--History--17th century.
- Philosophy, British.
- Philosophy of mind--England--History--17th century.
- Philosophy of mind.
- Education--Philosophy--History--17th century.
- Education.
- Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691--Philosophy.
- Boyle, Robert.
- Locke, John, 1632-1704.
- Locke, John.
- Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
- Bacon, Francis.
- Philosophy.
- Education--Philosophy.
- History.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 308 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2011.
- Contents:
- Francis Bacon and the art of direction
- An art of tempering the mind
- The distempered mind and the tree of knowledge
- A comprehensive culture of the mind
- The end of knowledge
- The study of nature as regimen
- Cultura and medicina animi: an early modern tradition
- The physician of the soul
- Sources
- Genres
- Utility: practical versus speculative knowledge
- Self-love and the fallen/uncultured mind
- The office of reason
- Passions, errors, and assent
- The discipline, the virtues, and habituation
- Virtuoso discipline
- The cure of the mind and Solomon's house
- Passions, errors, and method
- Idols and diseases of the mind
- Epistemic modesty
- The way of inquiry
- A 'union of eyes and hands': the community and objectivity revisited
- Robert Boyle: experience as paideia
- The limits and the 'perfection' of reason
- The weak mind and the virtues of a free inquiry
- Reason and experience
- The Christian philosopher
- John Locke and the education of the mind
- Limits of reason, useful knowledge, and the duty to search for truth
- A natural history of the distempered mind
- The regulation of assent: a perfecting exercise
- The discourse with a friend
- Studying nature
- Lived physics
- The appropriateness of disproportion
- Experience, history, and speculation
- Affective cognition
- Studying 'God's contrivances'
- The study of theology and the growth of the mind
- Worlds and angels
- Reading scripture
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-300) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226116396
- 0226116395
- OCLC:
- 711050884
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