"Covetous of Truth" : The Life and Work of Thomas White, 1593-1676 /
This is the first major work devoted to the life and work of Thomas White, an important and wide ranging seventeenth-century thinker long overdue for historical rehabilitation. Renowned in his own day as an eminent philosopher, White's reputation suffered not least as a result of his theologica...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands,
1993.
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| Series: | International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales D'Histoire Des Idés ;
134. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This is the first major work devoted to the life and work of Thomas White, an important and wide ranging seventeenth-century thinker long overdue for historical rehabilitation. Renowned in his own day as an eminent philosopher, White's reputation suffered not least as a result of his theological heresies and his pro-Cromwellian political sympathies. But he is here shown as the leader of an influential faction of English Catholics, known after his alias as `Blackloists' as a dogged opponent of the then newly-fashionable scepticism; and as a would-be synthesiser of scholastic thought with the `new philosophy'. In his Janus-faced intellectual stance White exemplifies the position of many mid-seventeenth-century thinkers; and he is presented here as representing a philosophical standpoint that is crucial for our understanding of a fascinating period in intellectual history. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 196 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9789401118507 (electronic bk.) 9401118507 (electronic bk.) |
| ISSN: | 0066-6610 ; |