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Politicized Physics in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy - Essays on Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, and Spinoza (Paperback)
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Politicized Physics in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy - Essays on Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, and Spinoza (Paperback)
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In the origins of Western philosophical thought, doctrines of
physics intertwined with the debate between political philosophers.
It is for this reason that Plato devoted his dialogues Theatetus
and Parmenides to investigating and meeting the arguments of his
principal philosophical adversaries. The doctrine of atomism, which
developed under the influence of Parmenides' philosophy, is one
that Plato refutes directly. In the modern era of philosophy and
science, a revived doctrine of atomism has been treated as
apolitical. Atomistic postulates lay at the root of the doctrines
of Early Modern philosophers and exert a great influence upon
cultural and political teachings. In order to understand Early
Modern Philosophy, therefore, and especially in order to examine
Early Modern political science, one must address the atomistic
theory of body which lies at the root of Early Modern metaphysics.
In the metaphysical domain, or in the domain of natural philosophy,
the Early Modern philosophers radically reduce the role that
ordinary opinion may play in political and cultural life. The
majestic declarations concerning the rights of man, and the gospel
of utility characteristic of the political domain of Early
Modernity, therefore conceal a shrunken influence fated for the
demos in the new politics. In order to take the measure of the new
political science, it is necessary to take the measure of the
revived doctrines of atomism. If these doctrines can be disproved,
by reviving Plato's critique, we will be able to take a critical
look at the political doctrines that lie upon the foundations of
the politicized atomism.
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