The works of Samuel Clarke, D.D.

著者

• Hoadly, Dr. (Benjamin)

書誌事項

The works of Samuel Clarke, D.D.

edited by Benjamin Hoadly

Thoemmes, 2002

• [set]
• v. 1
• v. 2
• v. 3
• v. 4

注記

Reprint. Originally published: London : Printed for John and P. Knapton, 1738

Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Samuel Clarke (1675-1729) was one of the leading figures of 18th-century Britain, considered in his day to be of comparable stature to John Locke. In traditional terms, if Locke is the chief Empiricist of British philosophy, Clarke is the main representative of its Rationalist wing. After an education at Cambridge, where be became a friend and disciple of Isaac Newton, Clarke took holy orders and quickly established a great reputation as a preacher. In his sermons he sought to reconstruct religion and ethics on the basis of Newtonian science and the power of human reason. Clarke was chosen to deliver two series of Boyle Lectures from the pulpit of St. Paul's Cathedral in 1704 and 1705. Later, while serving as a chaplain to Queen Anne, he engaged in a very extensive and important correspondence with Leibniz. Clarke spent the last 20 years of his life as Rector of the fashionable St. James's Church in Picadilly, from where he made highly influential contributions to various key theological debates of the time. Hoadly's 1738 edition remains the only complete edition of Samuel Clarke's major works. It includes both sets of Boyle Lectures, in which Clarke presents what is considered the most powerful version of the Cosmological Argument for the existence of God ever mounted. The edition also contains the famous correspondence with Leibniz; here - in a dispute that foreshadows those among 20th-century physicists - Clarke defends the Newtonian view of space and time as absolute entities rather than mere relations between objects and events. Included too are Clarke's many writings on moral philosophy. In these he argues that moral principles can be known by reason alone to be as certain as the propositions of mathematics. These four volumes are central to the history of ideas in Europe, and no major library should be without them.

目次

• Volume 1: the life, writings and character of Samuel Clarke
• sermons on several subjects. Volume 2: sermons on several subjects
• 18 sermons on several occasions
• 16 sermons on the being and attributes of God, the obligations of natural religion, and the truth and certainty of the Christian revelation, preached in 1704 and 1705 (Boyle Lectures). Volume 3: a paraphrase of the four Evangelists
• three practical essays on baptism, confirmation and repentance
• an exposition of the church catechism
• letter to Mr. Dodwell concerning the immortality of the soul, together with the four defences of it, to which are added the remarks of Dr. Clarke's letter to Mr. Dodwell and the several replies to the Doctor's defences thereof
• reflections on Amyntor. Volume 4: the scripture doctrine of the Trinity
• several tracts relating to the subject of the Trinity
• a collection of papers which passed between the late learned M. Leibniz and Dr. Clarke, relating to the principles of natural philosophy and religion
• letter to Benjamin Noadly FRS occasioned by the controversy relating to the proportion of velocity and force in bodies in motion.

「Nielsen BookData」 より

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA64268630
• ISBN:
  • 1855069687
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Bristol
• ページ数/冊数: 4. v.
• 大きさ: 31 cm
• 分類:
  • DC21 : 192
• 件名:
  • BLSH : Clarke, Samuel, 1675-1729
  • BLSH : Clarke, Samuel, 1675-1729
  • LCSH : Philosophy, British -- 18th century