Flesh in the Age of ReasonAllen Lane, 2003 - 573 страници The gloomy, anguished fears and concerns of the great English writers of the Civil War period (Milton, Bunyan et all) are in many ways completely baffling and alien to us and yet 150 years later with writers such as Byron we feel totally at home with their view of the world. How did this extraordinary change happen? How did we become modern? lifetime's work, offering an account of the writings of some of the most attractive figures ever to write in English. |
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... laws gov- erning the connection of physical phenomena . The transformation of the philosophy of mind was to be similar . The phenomena of consciousness must be approached without conjecture , and the laws of their connection established ...
... laws gov- erning the connection of physical phenomena . The transformation of the philosophy of mind was to be similar . The phenomena of consciousness must be approached without conjecture , and the laws of their connection established ...
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... laws . Determinism in the human world was merely an extension of the laws of cause and effect in the cosmos at large . The vulgar doctrine of human free will contravened our experience of the universe : it was evidently a symptom of ...
... laws . Determinism in the human world was merely an extension of the laws of cause and effect in the cosmos at large . The vulgar doctrine of human free will contravened our experience of the universe : it was evidently a symptom of ...
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... laws appear to have been fixed laws of our nature ' ) . Population would thus inevitably tend to outrun resources and precipitate crisis : famine , epidemics and war . That was the great problem the radicals had never squarely faced ...
... laws appear to have been fixed laws of our nature ' ) . Population would thus inevitably tend to outrun resources and precipitate crisis : famine , epidemics and war . That was the great problem the radicals had never squarely faced ...
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RELIGION AND THE SOUL | 28 |
MEDICINE AND THE BODY | 44 |
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