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Regimens of the mind :

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0226116395 (cloth : alk. paper)

(Number (ISBN

9780226116396 (cloth : alk. paper)

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b533636

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Regimens of the mind :

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[Book]

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Boyle, Locke, and the early modern cultura animi tradition /

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Sorana Corneanu

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

London :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

The University of Chicago Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2011

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

ix, 308 p. ;

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24 cm

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-300) and index

Text of Note

Francis Bacon and the art of direction -- An art of tempering the mind -- The distempered mind and the tree of knowledge -- A comprehensive culture of the mind -- The end of knowledge -- The study of nature as regimen -- Cultura and medicina animi: an early modern tradition -- The physician of the soul -- Sources -- Genres -- Utility: practical versus speculative knowledge -- Self-love and the fallen/uncultured mind -- The office of reason -- Passions, errors, and assent -- The discipline, the virtues, and habituation -- Virtuoso discipline -- The cure of the mind and Solomon's house -- Passions, errors, and method -- Idols and diseases of the mind -- Epistemic modesty -- The way of inquiry -- A 'union of eyes and hands': the community and objectivity revisited -- Robert Boyle: experience as paideia -- The limits and the 'perfection' of reason -- The weak mind and the virtues of a free inquiry -- Reason and experience -- The Christian philosopher -- John Locke and the education of the mind -- Limits of reason, useful knowledge, and the duty to search for truth -- A natural history of the distempered mind -- The regulation of assent: a perfecting exercise -- The discourse with a friend -- Studying nature -- Lived physics -- The appropriateness of disproportion -- Experience, history, and speculation -- Affective cognition -- Studying 'God's contrivances' -- The study of theology and the growth of the mind -- Worlds and angels -- Reading scripture -- Conclusion

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Bacon, Francis,1561-1626

Boyle, Robert,1627-1691-- Philosophy

Locke, John,1632-1704

Education-- Philosophy-- History-- 17th century

Philosophy of mind-- England-- History-- 17th century

Philosophy, British-- History-- 17th century

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Corneanu, Sorana

Date of Transaction

20120210122748.0

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