The Two First Books, of Philostratus, Concerning the Life of Apollonius Tyaneus
Author: Philostratus (the Athenian)
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Published: 1680
Total Pages: 258
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Author: Philostratus (the Athenian)
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Published: 1680
Total Pages: 258
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Philostrate l'Athénien
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Published: 1680
Total Pages: 243
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Philostratus (the Athenian)
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Published: 1680
Total Pages: 243
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Published: 1680
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Flavius P. Philostratos
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Published: 1680
Total Pages: 258
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Elad Carmel
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2024-01-09
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1526168812
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnticlerical legacies is the first comprehensive study of the reception of Thomas Hobbes’s ideas by the English deists and freethinkers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. One of the most important English philosophers of all time, Hobbes’s theories have had an enduring impact on modern political and religious thought. This book offers a new perspective on the afterlife of Hobbes’s philosophy, focusing on the readers who were most sympathetic to his critical and radical ideas in the decades following his death. It investigates how Hobbes’s ideas shaped the English anticlerical campaign that peaked in the early eighteenth century and that was essential for the emergence of the early Enlightenment. The book shows that a large number of writers – Charles Blount, John Toland, Anthony Collins, Matthew Tindal, Thomas Morgan, and many others – were more Hobbesian than has ever been appreciated. Not only did they engage consistently with Hobbes’s ideas, they even invoked his authority at a time when doing so was highly unpopular. Most fundamentally, they carried on Hobbes’s war against the kingdom of darkness and used various Hobbesian weapons for their own war against priestcraft. Analysing the ways in which the deists and freethinkers developed their nuanced theories and conducted their heated dialogues with the orthodoxy, they emerge from this study as sophisticated and valuable theorists in their own right. The case of Hobbes and his successors demonstrates that anticlericalism was a key component of a much larger programme whose primary aim was to secure civil harmony, peace, and stability.
Author: John Rylands Library
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Published: 1899
Total Pages: 664
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Published: 1899
Total Pages: 664
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael B. Prince
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2020-04-28
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 0813943663
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA scholarly and imaginative reconstruction of the voyage Daniel Defoe took from the pillory to literary immortality, The Shortest Way with Defoe contends that Robinson Crusoe contains a secret satire, written against one person, that has gone undetected for 300 years. By locating Defoe's nemesis and discovering what he represented and how Defoe fought him, Michael Prince's book opens the way to a new account of Defoe's emergence as a novelist. The book begins with Defoe’s conviction for seditious libel for penning a pamphlet called The Shortest Way with the Dissenters (1702). A question of biography segues into questions of theology and intellectual history and of formal analysis; these questions in turn require close attention to the early reception of Defoe's works, especially by those who hated or suspected him. Prince aims to recover the way of reading Defoe that his enemies considered accurate. Thus, the book rethinks the positions represented in Defoe's ambiguous alternation and mimicking of narrative and editorial voices in his tracts, proto-novels, and novels. By examining Defoe's early publications alongside Robinson Crusoe, Prince shows that Defoe traveled through nonrealist, nonhistorical genres on the way to discovering the form of prose fiction we now call the novel. Moreover, a climate (or figure) of extreme religious intolerance and political persecution required Defoe always to seek refuge in literary disguise. And, religious convictions aside, Defoe's practice as a writer found him inhabiting forms known for their covert deism.