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Robert Boyle: A Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature (Paperback, New Ed)
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Robert Boyle: A Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
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In this book, published in 1686, the scientist Robert Boyle
(1627-91) attacked prevailing notions of the natural world which
depicted 'Nature' as a wise, benevolent and purposeful being.
Boyle, one of the leading mechanical philosophers of his day,
believed that the world was best understood as a vast, impersonal
machine, fashioned by an infinite, personal God. In this cogent
treatise, he drew on his scientific findings, his knowledge of
contemporary medicine and his deep reflection on theological and
philosophical issues, arguing that it was inappropriate both
theologically and scientifically to speak of Nature as if it had a
mind of its own: instead, the only true efficient causes of things
were the properties and powers given to matter by God. As such, A
Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature represents
one of the subtlest statements concerning the philosophical issues
raised by the mechanical philosophy to emerge from the period of
the scientific revolution.
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