John Toland, his methods, manners, and mind

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John Toland, his methods, manners, and mind

Stephen H. Daniel

(McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas, 7)

McGill-Queen's University Press, c1984

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Bibliography: p. [230]-241

Includes index

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Drawing on a variety of published and unpublished material representing Toland's broad interests, Professor Daniel reveals a common theme emphasizing man's capacity for independent thought on basic philosophical, religious, and political issues. Roughly chronological, Daniel's treatment describes Toland's progressive refinement of this fundamental aspect of his thought. After examining, in his early works, the process whereby religion becomes mystified, Toland turned to biography, demonstrating that through it one can regain rational control over religion. Prejudices and superstitions, topics of the Letters to Serena, are shown to be overcome through corrections implicit in the principles of biographical and historical exegesis. Polemic as philosophic methode required Toland to provide a doctrine of esoteric communication. In the course of his later writings this doctrine became grounded in a metaphysics suitable for the Cieronian religion of the pantheists.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA04979131
  • ISBN
    • 0773510079
  • LCCN
    85151626
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Kingston
  • ページ数/冊数
    xi, 248 p.
  • 大きさ
    24 cm
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