The Sovereignty of Reason

The Defense of Rationality in the Early English Enlightenment

Frederick C. Beiser (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

328 Seiten

1996
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-03395-2 (ISBN)

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This is a survey of the rule of faith controversy in 17th-century England. The book examines the arguments by which reason eventually became the sovereign standard of truth in religion and politics, and how it triumphed over its rivals: scripture, inspiration and apostolic tradition. The book argues that the main threat to the authority of reason in 17th-century England came not only from dissident groups, but also, and chiefly, from the Protestant theology of the Church of England. The triumph of reason was the result of a new theology, rather than the development of natural philosophy, which upheld the orthodox Protestant dualism between the heavenly and earthly.

Reihe/Serie	Princeton Legacy Library
Verlagsort	New Jersey
Sprache	englisch
Maße	197 x 254 mm
Gewicht	680 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-691-03395-1 / 0691033951
ISBN-13	978-0-691-03395-2 / 9780691033952
Zustand	Neuware