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Richard Baxter and the mechanical philosophers / David S. Sytsma.
LIBRA B801 .S98 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sytsma, David S., author.
- Series:
- Oxford studies in historical theology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.
- Baxter, Richard.
- Philosophy, Modern--17th century.
- Philosophy, Modern.
- Physics--Philosophy.
- Physics.
- Philosophical theology.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 338 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Contents:
- 1 Richard Baxter as Philosophical Theologian 1
- 2 Baxter and the Rise of Mechanical Philosophy 22
- The Reception of Gassendi's Christian Epicureanism in England 26
- Baxter's Early Response to Hobbes's Leviathan 44
- The Beginning of Baxter's Restoration Polemics 47
- Matthew Hale and the Growth of Baxter's Polemics 57
- On the "Epicurean" Ethics of Hobbes and Spinoza 62
- Baxter and Henry More 64
- Conclusion 69
- 3 Reason and Philosophy 71
- Works on Reason 75
- The Nature and States of Reason 77
- Reason and Will 81
- Reason in the State of Sin 84
- Reason and Revelation 92
- The Use of and Limits of Philosophy 98
- Conclusion 103
- 4 A Trinitarian Natural Philosophy 105
- Theological Motivations 106
- God's Two Books 106
- Mosaic Physics 112
- Vestigia Trinitatis 118
- Trinitarian Analogy of Being 127
- Trinities in Nature 134
- Baxter's Eclectic Reception of Tommaso Campanella 134
- Threefold Causality 136
- Passive Nature 140
- Active Mature 144
- Conclusion 150
- 5 A Commotion over Motion 151
- Copernicanism 154
- The Nature of Motion 158
- Substantial Form 163
- Descartes's Laws of Motion 176
- Henry More's "Mixt Mechanicall Philosophy" 183
- Conclusion 188
- 6 The Incipient Materialism of Mechanical Philosophy 190
- Mechanical Philosophy and the Immaterial Soul 191
- Henry More's "Slippery Ground" and Pierre Gassendi's "Feeble" Proofs 196
- Pierre Gassendi, Thomas Willis, and the Material Soul 202
- Conclusion 214
- 7 From "'Epicurean" Physics to Ethics 216
- Baxter and Reformed Natural Law Theory 219
- The Specter of Necessitarianism 233
- The Problem of Naturalistic Natural Law 239
- Conclusion 247
- 8 Conclusion 249.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Sytsma, David S., author. Richard Baxter and the mechanical philosophers
- ISBN:
- 9780190274870
- 0190274875
- OCLC:
- 990802534
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