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Right Reason in the English Renaissance / Robert Hoopes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hoopes, Robert, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Knowledge, Theory of.
- Reason.
- Renaissance--England.
- Renaissance.
- Local Subjects:
- English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- Knowledge, Theory of.
- Reason.
- Renaissance--England.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 p.)
- Edition:
- Reprint 2014
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgment
- Contents
- Introduction. The Concept of Right Reason
- I. Right Reason and the Classical Tradition
- II. Stoicism: Rational Struggle and Rational Neutrality
- III. Plotinus: Knowledge as Disengaged Ecstasy
- IV. Christianity: Fallen Nature and Fallible Reason
- V. Christian Reformulation and the Weight of Antiquity
- VI. Reformation Fideism and Skepticism: Main Antitheses to Recta Ratio
- VII. Renaissance Rehabilitation
- VIII. Reason's "Due Regalitie": Spenser
- IX. Right Reason in the Seventeenth Century
- X. Milton: "Prime Wisdom"
- Bibliography
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)
- ISBN:
- 0-674-18243-X
- OCLC:
- 1013966441
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