Book contents
- The Kingdom of Darkness
- The Kingdom of Darkness
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations and Conventions
- General Prologue
- Part I Giving Up Philosophy
- I Prolegomena
- I.1 Emancipating Natural Philosophy from Metaphysics
- I.2 Emancipating Theology from Philosophy
- I.3 Reconstructing the Pagan Mind in Seventeenth-Century Europe
- Part II Pierre Bayle and the Emancipation of Religion from Philosophy
- Part III Isaac Newton and the Emancipation of Natural Philosophy from Metaphysics
- Part IV The European System of Knowledge, c.1700 and Beyond
- Bibliography
- Index
I - Prolegomena
Giving Up Philosophy
from Part I - Giving Up Philosophy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 March 2022
- The Kingdom of Darkness
- The Kingdom of Darkness
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations and Conventions
- General Prologue
- Part I Giving Up Philosophy
- I Prolegomena
- I.1 Emancipating Natural Philosophy from Metaphysics
- I.2 Emancipating Theology from Philosophy
- I.3 Reconstructing the Pagan Mind in Seventeenth-Century Europe
- Part II Pierre Bayle and the Emancipation of Religion from Philosophy
- Part III Isaac Newton and the Emancipation of Natural Philosophy from Metaphysics
- Part IV The European System of Knowledge, c.1700 and Beyond
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This is the preliminary section to the structural history presented in Part I. It briefly describes the pan-European aversion to speculative and systematic philosophising c.1700, and contrasts it with the situation two centuries earlier. It asks how this remarkable transformation came about.
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- The Kingdom of DarknessBayle, Newton, and the Emancipation of the European Mind from Philosophy, pp. 19 - 24Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022