Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgment vii
3. Contents ix
4. Introduction. The Concept of Right Reason 1
5. I. Right Reason and the Classical Tradition 7
6. II. Stoicism: Rational Struggle and Rational Neutrality 33
7. III. Plotinus: Knowledge as Disengaged Ecstasy 46
8. IV. Christianity: Fallen Nature and Fallible Reason 52
9. V. Christian Reformulation and the Weight of Antiquity 59
10. VI. Reformation Fideism and Skepticism: Main Antitheses to Recta Ratio 96
11. VII. Renaissance Rehabilitation 123
12. VIII. Reason’s “Due Regalitie”: Spenser 146
13. IX. Right Reason in the Seventeenth Century 160
14. X. Milton: “Prime Wisdom” 186
15. Bibliography 203
16. Notes 225
17. Index 245