The Sociology of Philosophies

omy was a fertile ground for innovations in calculation, such as trigonometry and logarithms, as well as in geometry. And astron ...

made it the standard for pure mathematics as well. Descartes trumpeted the news that mathematics has an infallible discovery-mak ...

phy” of Agrippa von Nettesheim around 1515–1530 and the alchemical and medical theories of Paracelsus in the 1530s. In common wi ...

attention was the rearrangement of theological doctrine which followed the organizational breakup of the church, it is not surpr ...

England as royal physician, science acquired another center of public fame. In 1616, the very year Harvey announced his mechanic ...

they knew it or not (and in fact they did not), philosophers continued to operate by a dialectic of disagreement under the law o ...

Bacon and Descartes. Instead of mingling their science with theological posi- tions, they presented it in as pure and unentangle ...

Bacon’s support but deprecated his advice; Harvey said, “He philosophizes like a Lord Chancellor” (CMH, 1902–1911: 5:724). Bacon ...

as we see in Figure 10.1; Bacon’s rival Raleigh in particular was close to the avant-garde poets and was a successful poet himse ...

encouraged on the Catholic side and sought after by the Protestant standard- bearers from the House of Palatine, and was visited ...

controvertible conclusions, was a generalization of mathematical argument. In using it to build a science of the materially exte ...

Anselm’s ontological proof of God is obvious, and it is not improbable that Descartes knew of Augustine’s prior use of the cogit ...

CHAPTER 11 £ Secularization and Philosophical Meta-territoriality The shifting power of the church was bound to change intellect ...

so became part of Protestant propaganda after the condemnation of Galileo in 1632. But Servetus had been burned at Geneva in 155 ...

hounding Gassendi and Arnauld, Bossuet persecuting the Oratorian Richard Simon in the 1680s and the mysticism of Fénelon and Mme ...

church to the state (sometimes the city-state) level, and hence a fresh fusion of religion with political power. In a larger org ...

The Catholic world was the intellectual center during this period of church breakdown and exhaustion because it remained the cos ...

ing simultaneously with the unification of the Iberian kingdoms, the conquest of the Americas, and dynastic marriages and allian ...

Geopolitical Crisis of the Spanish-Habsburg Empire, HABSBURG EMPIRE, 1559 (From McEvedy, 1972, p. 33) ...

tion from participation in the old Catholic ritualism, and this faction was strong enough in Spain to defeat the new state-cente ...