The Sociology of Philosophies

Shaftesbury’s death in 1683. Shaftesbury reminds us of an English version of the duc de Condé, the practitioner of timely allian ...

science should stay apart from religious disputes. The propagandist for the Royal Society, Glanvill (who was at Oxford in the 16 ...

of the term, for these are not simple ideas at all. But there is no need to worry about skepticism as applied to the external wo ...

Locke in the network.^17 The most famous Deist work is the Christianity not Mysterious (1696) of Toland, who was attacked from a ...

needed the support of a political faction. Poets and dramatists such as Dryden, Pope, and Addison could make large fortunes, not ...

Shaftesbury’s position opened up a terrain which was to comprise much of philosophy throughout the century in Protestant societi ...

tered competition among political factions over the spoils available at the center. Wuthnow’s model is a version of the structur ...

who shared Montesquieu’s Deism, nevertheless attacked his Esprit des lois as a reactionary defense of aristocratic privilege. Vo ...

humanity, while he attacked the church as the defender of corrupt privileges using the weapons of mystifying ritual and dogma. M ...

FIGURE 11.1. FRENCH AND BRITISH NETWORK DURING THE ENLIGHTENMENT, 1735–1800 Secularization and Philosophical Meta-territoriality ...

l’esprit humain (1750), with its historical evolutionism. Another wealthy pa- tron, Helvetius, began to host the group in 1751, ...

was to become the liberal, progressive, leftward beliefs of modernity. Rousseau stepped in at virtually the founding moment of t ...

philosophy as grounds for Deism; on the other side, a religious opposition emerged which increasingly repudiated science. Since ...

his mathematical notebooks and his New Theory of Vision (1709), the very topic on which Newton had published his most popular bo ...

supporter at the time he formulated his critique was Swift, then in Dublin as chaplain to the Lord Justice of Ireland; Swift int ...

Collier (119), another Oxford graduate and rural clergyman, published his Clavis Universalis in 1713, almost coinciding with Ber ...

empiricism to build the human sciences, where he expected the rewards to be even greater than in the natural sciences (Mossner, ...

and rushed in to ground it and justify it: activities which took place on the territory of general philosophical argument. In th ...

tuals of the Scottish Enlightenment belonged stood against the fanaticism of all these religious parties. These were the Scots w ...

one ingredient in Hume’s stance. He pushed into the new territory as aggres- sively as he could, aiming to reap fame for constru ...