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The Seventeenth Century Background

Studies in the Thought of the Age in Relation to Poetry and Religion
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 1952

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Designed to furnish the reader of 17th century literature with an overview of the intellectual background of the period by looking at the works of Browne, Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, Glanville, and Locke.

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    Frontmatter

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    CONTENTS

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    FOREWORD

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    CHAPTER I. The Rejection of Scholasticism

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    CHAPTER II. Bacon and the Rehabilitation of Nature

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    CHAPTER III. Sir Thomas Browne

    41
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    CHAPTER IV. On Scriptural Interpretation

    57
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    CHAPTER V. The Philosophical Quest for Truth

    76
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    CHAPTER VI. The Philosophical Quest for Truth

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    CHAPTER VII. Rational Theology

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    CHAPTER VIII. Rational Theology

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    CHAPTER IX. Joseph Glanvill (1636–80)

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    CHAPTER X. The Heroic Poem in a Scientific Age

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    CHAPTER XI. John Locke

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    CHAPTER XXI. POSTSCRIPT

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    INDEX

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