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