The Sovereignty of Reason : : The Defense of Rationality in the Early English Enlightenment / / Frederick C. Beiser.
The Sovereignty of Reason is a survey of the rule of faith controversy in seventeenth-century England. It 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 tra...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1996 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (346 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION. The Problem of the English Enlightenment
- CHAPTER 1. The Protestant Challenge
- CHAPTER 2. Hooker's Defense of Reason
- CHAPTER 3. The Great Tew Circle
- CHAPTER 4. Cambridge Platonism
- CHAPTER 5. Enthusiasmus Triumphatus
- CHAPTER 6. Toland and the Deism Controversy
- CHAPTER 7. Ethical Rationalism
- CONCLUSION. Faith in Reason
- INDEX