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British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century (Paperback)
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British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century (Paperback)
Series: The Oxford History of Philosophy
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Sarah Hutton presents a rich historical study of one of the most
fertile periods in modern philosophy. It was in the seventeenth
century that Britain's first philosophers of international stature
and lasting influence emerged. Its most famous names, Hobbes and
Locke, rank alongside the greatest names in the European
philosophical canon. Bacon too belongs with this constellation of
great thinkers, although his status as a philosopher tends to be
obscured by his status as father of modern science. The seventeenth
century is normally regarded as the dawn of modernity following the
breakdown of the Aristotelian synthesis which had dominated
intellectual life since the middle ages. In this period of
transformational change, Bacon, Hobbes, Locke are acknowledged to
have contributed significantly to the shape of European philosophy
from their own time to the present day. But these figures did not
work in isolation. Sarah Hutton places them in their intellectual
context, including the social, political and religious conditions
in which philosophy was practised. She treats seventeenth-century
philosophy as an ongoing conversation: like all conversations, some
voices will dominate, some will be more persuasive than others and
there will be enormous variations in tone from the polite to
polemical, matter-of-fact, intemperate. The conversation model
allows voices to be heard which would otherwise be discounted.
Hutton shows the importance of figures normally regarded as 'minor'
players in philosophy (e.g. Herbert of Cherbury, Cudworth, More,
Burthogge, Norris, Toland) as well as others who have been
completely overlooked, notably female philosophers. Crucially,
instead of emphasizing the break between seventeenth-century
philosophy and its past, the conversation model makes it possible
to trace continuities between the Renaissance and seventeenth
century, across the seventeenth century and into the eighteenth
century, while at the same time acknowledging the major changes
which occurred.
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