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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"early modern philosophy"”.
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Sea-Cards for the Impetuous Muse: A Reading of Shaftesbury's Characteristicks
… an important dissent from the general trend of early modern philosophy. This dissertation argues that Shaftesbury's book undertakes a restoration of the classical understanding of philosophy in contradistinction to the understanding presented by the writings of Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, and …
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Freedom, Society, And The Individual In Early Modern Women's Thought
… Mary Wollstonecraft, and other women of the early modern period in Europe. From these disparate sources—Cavendish’s vitalist metaphysics, Suchon’s practical ethics, Wollstonecraft’s polemical aesthetics—a unifying political concern can be drawn: one of how individuals relate to their …
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Obscurity and involvement on the unconscious of thought in Leibniz, Spinoza, and Hume
<p>In this dissertation I argue for the central metaphysical importance of unconscious dimensions of thought in philosophical systems of Leibniz, Spinoza, and Hume, and analyze how these unconscious dimensions inform how each conceives of freedom and volition. I show that they develop robust …
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WHAT MATTER MATTERS: BODY, SPIRIT, AND VITAL MOTION IN ANNE CONWAY'S METAPHYSICS
… I investigate the metaphysics and natural philosophy of Lady Anne Conway, the understudied seventeenth-century English female philosopher. In her Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy (1690), Conway questions the common idea of matter. She critically engages with the …
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The Janus-face of capitalist labor: gender, race, and work in early modernity
… between three processes during the early modern period: the enwaging of the nascent proletariat, the domesticating of white women, and the enslavement of peoples of color. These three tendencies, taken together, represent the invention of new forms of labor relations that constituted …
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The politics of the confessional imagination, from Calvin to Hobbes
… English, Protestants, over the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. I make four significant observations. First, I argue that English Protestant philosophical treatments of the imagination were largely continuous with the earlier mediaeval, scholastic tradition, despite advances in …
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Theological Essentialism at the Enlightenment: The Doctrine of Fundamental Articles of the Faith in Daniel Waterland (1683-1740)
… Waterland as its sole primary source on the early Hanoverian reception of Protestantism’s Post-Reformation doctrine of fundamental articles of the faith (i.e., the teaching that there exist confessedly biblical articles of the Christian faith unnecessary to the Christian faith). Juxtaposed …