MACARIA AND THE PURITAN ETHICS OF DIRECT PARTICIPATION IN THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE WORLD Oana MATEI* Abstract. This paper explores a particular way in which the Baconian reformation of knowledge can be seen as providing conditions of possibility for the emergence of Puritan ethics in the mid-seventeenthcentury England. Macaria, along with other works belonging to […]
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The City of The Sun and the foundations for social performance
THE CITY OF THE SUN AND THE FOUNDATIONS FOR SOCIAL PERFORMANCE Martian IOVAN*Abstract. This paper proposes a new contextual interpretation of The City of the Sun as a pattern for social performance in a systematic, well organized society. I will explore the foundations of some interesting concepts and aspects developed by Campanella in The City […]
Fictions of the world in Descartes’ and Gassendi’s physics
FICTIONS OF THE WORLD IN DESCARTES’ AND GASSENDI’S PHYSICS Alexandra TORERO-IBAD* Abstract. Both Gassendi and Descartes used fables in order to account for the formation of the world. The first aim of this paper is to argue that, in both cases, the use of fiction does not merely wish to avoid competing with the account […]
Core experiments, natural histories and the art of experientia literata: the meaning of Baconian experimentation
CORE EXPERIMENTS, NATURAL HISTORIES AND THE ART OF EXPERIENTIA LITERATA: THE MEANING OF BACONIAN EXPERIMENTATION Dana JALOBEANU* Abstract. Experiment, as a new form of knowledge, was a Baconian creation. It was in Bacon’s project of Great Instauration and in Bacon’s reformed natural history that experiment and experimentationceased to be illustrations of theories and become relatively […]
A new form of knowledge: experientia literata
A NEW FORM OF KNOWLEDGE: EXPERIENTIA LITERATA Laura GEORGESCU* Abstract. In this paper, I assess Francis Bacon’s methodological considerations on the process of experimentation in order to show that experiments and experimentation have a productive role in his scientific inquiry. By looking at the structure of the problems selected for investigation, and at the ways […]
Cartesianism and chymistry
CARTESIANISM AND CHYMISTRY Mihnea DOBRE* Abstract. One of the most difficult, yet interesting change in the seventeenth-century natural philosophy was that of chemistry. This essay focuses upon Cartesian re-evaluation of the philosophical disciplines, arguing that, from a systematic perspective, chemistry cannot find a place in natural philosophy. Chemistry, in its seventeenth-century form of “chymistry” shares […]
Sufficient reason and the causal argument for monism
SUFFICIENT REASON AND THE CAUSAL ARGUMENT FOR MONISM Landon FRIM* Abstract. What is the role of the principle of sufficient reason in Baruch Spinoza’s ontological proof for God’s existence? Is this role identical within Spinoza’s early work on method, the Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect, and his magnum opus, the Ethics? This paper […]
A brief, but erudite examination of the Renaissance artes historicae: Grafton’s What Was History?
A BRIEF, BUT ERUDITE EXAMINATION OF THE RENAISSANCE ARTES HISTORICAE: GRAFTON’S WHAT WAS HISTORY? Anthony Grafton, What Was History? The Art of History in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), ISBN 978-0-521-69714-9, pp. ix +319James A.T. LANCASTER* It is hard not to agree with Grafton’s concluding remarks; that What Was History? offers a […]
The beginning of the scientific revolution in Early Modern Europe
THE BEGINNING OF THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE Re-Inventing Utopia: Science, Politics and Religion in Early Modern Europe, Studii de Stiinta si Cultura, Year VI 4 (23) 2010, “Vasile Goldis” University Press, ISSN 1841-1401 (print), ISSN 2067-5135 (online), pp 192Stancuta Ramona DIMA-LAZA* Under the broad theme of utopia, the special issue of Studii […]
The philosophical Newton
THE PHILOSOPHICAL NEWTON Andrew Janiak, Newton as Philosopher (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008),ISBN 13 978-0-521-86286-8 (hardback), ISBN 13 978-0-511-41404-6 (eBook), pp. 196 Grigore VIDA* When Newton is referring to his works, he usually speaks about “my Philosophy.” The reader who opens the third edition of the Principia is announced on the first page that he […]