Title Regimens of the mind : Boyle, Locke, and the early modern cultura animi tradition / Sorana Corneanu

Published Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011

Click on the following:
EBSCO eBooks
ProQuest Ebook Central

Copies

Description 1 online resource (308 pages) 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 Summary In Regimens of the Mind, Sorana Corneanu proposes a new approach to the epistemological and methodological doctrines of the leading experimental philosophers of seventeenth-century England, an approach that considers their often overlooked moral, psychological, and theological elements. Corneanu focuses on the views about the pursuit of knowledge in the writings of Robert Boyle and John Locke, as well as in those of several of their influences, including Francis Bacon and the early Royal Society virtuosi. She argues that their experimental programs of inquiry fulfill the role of regimens for c Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691 -- Philosophy Locke, John, 1632-1704. Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626. SUBJECT Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691 Locke, John, 1632-1704 Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626 Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626 fast Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691 fast Locke, John, 1632-1704 fast Boyle, Robert 1627-1691 gnd Locke, John 1632-1704 gnd Bacon, Francis 1561-1626 gnd Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691 -- filosofi. sao Subject Philosophy, British -- History -- 17th century Philosophy of mind -- England -- History -- 17th century Education -- Philosophy -- History -- 17th century Learning. Medicine -- History -- 17th century. Philosophy of mind -- History -- 17th century Philosophy -- history Natural Science Disciplines -- history Learning Education -- methods History, 17th Century PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern. Medicine Learning Education -- Philosophy Philosophy Philosophy, British Philosophy of mind Philosophie Experiment Empirismus Medvetandefilosofi -- historia -- Storbritannien -- 1600-talet. Filosofi -- historia -- Storbritannien -- 1600-talet. SUBJECT England Subject England England Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780226116419 0226116417 1283355159 9781283355155

  Permalink