The Philosopher in Early Modern Europe: The Nature of a Contested IdentityConal Condren, Stephen Gaukroger, Ian Hunter Cambridge University Press, 2006 M09 28 In this groundbreaking collection of essays the history of philosophy appears in a fresh light, not as reason's progressive discovery of its universal conditions, but as a series of unreconciled disputes over the proper way to conduct oneself as a philosopher. By shifting focus from the philosopher as proxy for the universal subject of reason to the philosopher as a special persona arising from rival forms of self-cultivation, philosophy is approached in terms of the social office and intellectual deportment of the philosopher, as a personage with a definite moral physiognomy and institutional setting. In so doing, this collection of essays by leading figures in the fields of both philosophy and the history of ideas provides access to key early modern disputes over what it meant to be a philosopher, and to the institutional and larger political and religious contexts in which such disputes took place. |
Contents
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The persona of the philosopher and the rhetorics of | 66 |
things on his terms and unsurprisingly he provides a resolution85 | 89 |
the | 90 |
Hobbes the universities and the history of philosophy | 113 |
historical knowledge such as the Royal Society which Hobbes | 139 |
the case of | 140 |
reaching a legal determination Ronald Dworkin would then rescue the | 159 |
Althusius on the formation of | 160 |
spiritual askesis in Cartesian | 182 |
The natural philosopher and the virtues | 202 |
John Locke and polite philosophy | 254 |
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