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Matter in motion: The problem of activity in seventeenth-century English matter theory
… Hobbes, Sir Kenelm Digby, Walter Charleton, Henry More, Robert Boyle, Robert Hooke, Sir William Petty and Isaac Newton tried to account for the motions and other activities of matter. In the Conclusion it is reasserted that the concept of passive inert matter was never a major feature of …
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Natural Philosophy and Theology in Seventeenth-Century England
… and boundaries. Francis Bacon, Thomas White, Henry More and John Locke are the focus of the four chapters respectively, with Joseph Glanvill, Thomas Hobbes, other Cambridge divines, and a variety of medieval scholastic authors providing context, comparison and reinforcement. These case studies …
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WHAT MATTER MATTERS: BODY, SPIRIT, AND VITAL MOTION IN ANNE CONWAY'S METAPHYSICS
… thinkers such as Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, and Henry More. One popular belief among these philosophers is that lifeless matter and living spirit are two distinct elements, while the generation of various creatures is based on the interaction between the two elements. According to Conway, this …
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A Philosophical Reappraisal of Henry More’s Theory of Divine Space
… project provides a philosophical reappraisal of Henry More’s theory of divine space, which—through Newton—became part of the metaphysical foundations of the new physics. Of course, this space was soon secularized into an impersonal ether, then seemingly relativized by Einstein. However, some …
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M̀oral sense' from the Cambridge platonists to Adam Smith
… in the decades that followed. Only with the much more astute philosophies of David Hume and Adam Smith were the basic presumptions behind the notion of a natural moral sense examined with renewed care. David Hume, I argue, retains the veneer of a moral sense theory, while providing arguments able …
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M̀oral sense' from the Cambridge platonists to Adam Smith
… in the decades that followed. Only with the much more astute philosophies of David Hume and Adam Smith were the basic presumptions behind the notion of a natural moral sense examined with renewed care. David Hume, I argue, retains the veneer of a moral sense theory, while providing arguments able …