OLD HABITS DIE HARD: THE ROYAL SOCIETY, THEOPHILUS GALE AND THE INTELLECTUAL VIRTUES1 Daniel ANDERSSON* Abstract. There were several English attempts to rethink ideas about cognition in the wake of the new attention and status given to natural philosophy in the seventeenth century. This article focuses on one of them, that of the Hebraist and […]
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“Curing” Pyrrhonian Doubt: Anti-Skeptical Rhetoric in the Early 18th Century
“CURING” PYRRHONIAN DOUBT: ANTI-SKEPTICAL RHETORIC IN THE EARLY 18TH CENTURY Anton MATYTSIN* Abstract. By examining the analogies of sickness and disease used by several opponents of philosophical skepticism (Pyrrhonism) in the early 18th century, this article will shed light on the rhetorical strategies used in attempts to undermine the revival of this ancient school of […]
The Status of Bacon in Gassendi’s Syntagma Philosophicum History of Logic
THE STATUS OF BACON IN GASSENDI’S SYNTAGMA PHILOSOPHICUM HISTORY OF LOGICElodie CASSAN* Abstract. One trademark of the early-modern period is the tendency to base logic on theory of mind, but so far, this topic has not received close attention. The aim of this paper is to bring some attention to this neglected topic by examining […]
Rebuilding Solomon’s House: A Collection of Utopias and other Texts Belonging to the 17th Century
REBUILDING SOLOMON’S HOUSE: A COLLECTION OF UTOPIAS AND OTHER TEXTS BELONGING TO THE 17th CENTURYDana Jalobeanu (ed.), Casa lui Solomon sau fascinatia utopiei. Stiinta, religie si politica în Anglia secolului al XII-lea (Bucuresti: All, 2011), ISBN 978-973-571-992-0, pp. 431Laura PRECUP-STIGELBAUER* New Atlantis is today probably the most renowned of Bacon’s writings, although it has been […]
A Historical Exposition of Man’s Perennial Search for Certitude
A HISTORICAL EXPOSITION OF MAN’S PERENNIAL SEARCH FOR CERTITUDESusan E. Schreiner, Are You Alone Wise? The Search for Certainty in the Early Modern Era (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), ISBN-13: 9780195313420, ISBN-10: 0195313429, pp vii-480Sandra DRAGOMIR* The age we live in is no less tormented by the search for certitude than all the previous historical […]
Akrasia in the Early Modern Thought
AKRASIA IN THE EARLY MODERN THOUGHTRisto Saarinen, Weakness of Will in Renaissance and Reformation Thought (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), ISBN 978-0-19-960681-8, pp. vi+248Sebastian MATEIESCU* Medea’s famous words “I see the better and approve it, but I follow the worse”1 fully illustrates men’s paradoxical way of acting known in the ancient Greek under the […]
The Far East – The Middle East. Israel’s Presence in Francophone Literature
THE FAR EAST – THE MIDDLE EAST. ISRAEL’S PRESENCE IN FRANCOPHONE LITERATURE(Till R. Kuhnle, Carmen Oszi, Saskia S. Wiedner (eds.), Orient lointain – proche Orient, La présence d’Israël dans la littérature francophone (Tübingen: Editions Narr Verlag, 2011), ISBN 978-3-8233- 65167-7, pp. 160Speranta Sofia MILANCOVICI* The University of Augsburg hosted, in late 2008, the sixth edition […]
Introduction
INTRODUCTIONDISCIPLINES AND FORMS OF KNOWLEDGE IN EARLY MODERN THOUGHT Invited editors: Dana Jalobeanu, Oana Matei, and Laura GeorgescuThe sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were a time of unprecedented change, in almost every respect, but particularly in the modes, practices, norms and methods associated with the production of knowledge. They also saw the emergence of new disciplines […]
Making the “round of knowledge” in Bacon’s wake: Naudé, Comenius, and Browne Sandra DRAGOMIR – Utopia and New Atlantis, utopia revised
MAKING THE “ROUND OF KNOWLEDGE” IN BACON’S WAKE: NAUDÉ, COMENIUS, AND BROWNE1 Christopher D. JOHNSON* Abstract. This paper examines how three of Francis Bacon’s readers, Gabriel Naudé, Jan Amos Comenius, and Thomas Browne, rethink the humanist library, the genre of the silva, and Bacon’s call for a new kind of encyclopedism. Naudé adumbrates the organization […]
Utopia and New Atlantis, utopia revised
UTOPIA AND NEW ATLANTIS, UTOPIA REVISED Sandra DRAGOMIR* Abstract. This paper is a comparison between two works usually ascribed to the utopian genre: Thomas More’s Utopia, and Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis. My major claim is that the two differ mainly in this respect: if More’s work is utopian, Bacon’s New Atlantis is only disguised under […]