Philosophy begins in wonder : an introduction to early modern philosophy, theology, and science /
Philosophy begins with wonder, according to Plato and Aristotle. Yet Plato and Aristotle did not expand a great deal on what precisely wonder is. Does this fact alone not raise curiosity in us as to why this passion or concept is important? What is wonder's role in science, philosophy, or theol...
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2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Front cover; Half Title; Title page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Preface: Péter Losonczi and Michael Funk Deckard; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part One. Historical, Scientific, and Religious Contexts; 1: Wonder and Wondering in the Renaissance: Elisabeth Blum and Paul Richard Blum; 2: Wonder, Magic, and Natural Philosophy: The Disenchantment Thesis Revisited: Koen Vermeir; 3: Religious Awe at the Origin of Eighteenth-Century Physico-Theology: Miklós Vassányi; Part Two. Wonder in Seventeenth-Century Europe; 4: Descartes on the Excellent Use of Admiration: Dorottya Kaposi.
- 5: Admiration, Fear, and Infinity in Pascal's Thinking: Tamás Pavlovits6: On Thomas Hobbes's Concept of Wonder: Jianhong Chen; 7: "Straight toward Heaven": Natural Theology and Politics in Milton's Paradise Lost: Veronika Szántó; 8: Malebranche on Restlessness and Curiosity: Roland Breeur; 9: Wonder in the Age of the Saeculum: Spinoza: Gábor Boros; Part Three. Wonder in Eighteenth-Century Europe; 10: Berkeley's Wonderful Divine Language: Apology and Biblical Realism: Péter Losonczi.
- 11: "Of Curiosity, or the Love of Truth": David Hume on Wonder in A Treatise of Human Nature: Michael Funk Deckard12: A Risk of Testimony: Astonishment and the Sublime: Baldine Saint Girons; 13: Two Sources of Wonder in Early Modern Judaism: Roberta Sabbath; 14: Kant and the End of Wonder: Patrick Frierson; 15: Ways of Wondering: Beyond the Barbarism of Reflection: William Desmond; List of Contributors; Back cover.
