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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811817803321

Autore

Hutton Sarah

Titolo

British philosophy in the seventeenth century / / Sarah Hutton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, England : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-19-105951-X

0-19-880154-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Collana

Oxford History of Philosophy

Disciplina

192

Soggetti

Philosophy, British - 17th century

Storbritannien

Great Britain

Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

An age of transformation -- Philosophy in the universities -- Cross-currents, conduits, and conversations -- Aristotelianism and its enemies -- Bacon and Herbert of Cherbury -- Thomas Hobbes -- A Cambridge enlightenment: the Cambridge Platonists and Richard Cumberland -- From philosophy to science: natural philosophy of Boyle, Newton, and others -- John Locke -- Freethinkers, idealists, and women philosophers: philosophy from 1690 to 1710--and after.

Sommario/riassunto

Sarah Hutton presents a rich historical study of one of the most fertile periods in modern philosophy. It was in the seventeenth century that Britain's first philosophers of international stature and lasting influence emerged. Its most famous names, Hobbes and Locke, rank alongside the greatest names in the European philosophical canon. Bacon too belongs with this constellation of great thinkers, although his status as a philosopher tends to be obscured by his statusas father of modern science. The seventeenth century is normally regarded as the dawn of modernity following the breakdown of the