The paradoxes of ignorance in early modern England and France /
In the early modern period, ignorance was commonly perceived as a sin, a flaw, a defect and even a threat to religion and the social order. Yet praises of ignorance were also expressed in the same context. Reclaiming the long-lasting legacy of medieval doctrines of ignorance and taking a comparative...
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
[2023].
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Table of Contents:
- Fortunes of docta ignorantia in early modern England and France
- English experimental philosophy and doctrines of ignorance
- Ignorance and the internal light
- Ignorance, inspiration, and religious knowledge
- Fictions of ignorance
- Ignorance and chance discovery
- John Locke's anthropology of ignorance.