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Coleridge and Scepticism (Hardcover)
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Coleridge and Scepticism (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford English Monographs
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Coleridge tended to view objects in the natural world as if they
were capable of articulating truths about his own poetic psyche. He
also regarded such objects as if they were capable of illustrating
and concretely embodying truths about a transcendent spiritual
realm. After 1805, he posited a series of analogical 'likenesses'
connecting the rational principles that inform human cognition with
the rational principles that he believed informed the teleological
structure of the natural world. Human reason and the principle of
rationality realized objectively in Nature were both regarded as
finite effects of God's seminal Word. Although Coleridge
intuitively felt that nature had been constructed as a 'mirror' of
the human mind, and that both mind and nature were 'mirrors' of a
transcendent spiritual realm, he never found an explanation of such
experiences that was fully immune to his own skeptical doubts.
Coleridge and Scepticism examines the nature of these skeptical
doubts, as well as offering a new explanatory account of why
Coleridge was unable to affirm his religious intuitions. Ben Brice
situates his work within two important intellectual traditions. The
first, a tradition of epistemological 'piety' or 'modesty', informs
the work of key precursors such as Kant, Hume, Locke, Boyle, and
Calvin, and relates to Protestant critiques of natural reason. The
second, a tradition of theological voluntarism, emphasizes the
omnipotence and transcendence of God, as well as the arbitrary
relationship subsisting between God and the created world. Brice
argues that Coleridge's detailed familiarity with both of these
interrelated intellectual traditions, ultimately served to
undermine hisconfidence in his ability to read the symbolic
language of God in nature.
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