Three Deaths and Enlightenment Thought: Hume, Johnson, MaratBucknell University Press, 2001 - 219 sider "The book also looks at the response of James Boswell, Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, and Edward Gibbon to the deathbed projects of Hume and Johnson, and it discusses how their political thought differs from Johnson's and Hume's. It also considers the complex relations between reformist and transformist thought in Britain during the last three decades of the century, showing how the views of the two reformist groups and of such transformist writers as Richard Price, Joseph Priestley, and Thomas Paine were affected by a number of political events, from the Wilkes crisis to the French Revolution. Though the book focuses on Anglo-Scottish Enlightenment thought, it often refers to the French Enlightenment, and the chapter on Marat looks at the connection between transformist thought in Britain and France."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Side 12
... fear death and therefore need not embrace " popular religion , " i.e. , Christianity . But Christianity was not waning in England . According to the Methodist leader John Wesley , it was growing stronger among the lower classes ...
... fear death and therefore need not embrace " popular religion , " i.e. , Christianity . But Christianity was not waning in England . According to the Methodist leader John Wesley , it was growing stronger among the lower classes ...
Side 13
... fear of death " and the indifference of the infidel " in their last hours . 25 Johnson's death was less important in itself than as the last act in a lifelong project to persuade friends and readers that traditional God - fearing ...
... fear of death " and the indifference of the infidel " in their last hours . 25 Johnson's death was less important in itself than as the last act in a lifelong project to persuade friends and readers that traditional God - fearing ...
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... fear and without repentance . . . . One cannot excuse his wholly heathen sentiments concerning death ; for we must say goodbye to piety if we have no desire for at least a Christian death . Now throughout his book he thinks only of a ...
... fear and without repentance . . . . One cannot excuse his wholly heathen sentiments concerning death ; for we must say goodbye to piety if we have no desire for at least a Christian death . Now throughout his book he thinks only of a ...
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... fear of God's judgment than with the benevo- lent passions . Sounding like Shaftesbury , the moral benevolists suggested that virtuous conduct derives from a good nature or " a heart , which is tender , " as Matthew Bramble is described ...
... fear of God's judgment than with the benevo- lent passions . Sounding like Shaftesbury , the moral benevolists suggested that virtuous conduct derives from a good nature or " a heart , which is tender , " as Matthew Bramble is described ...
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... fear and trembling even if the person's belief in orthodox Christianity was weak or wavering . In his Autobiography , the deist Benjamin Franklin notes that he used lines from Cato's soliloquy about a benevolent God as a motto for his ...
... fear and trembling even if the person's belief in orthodox Christianity was weak or wavering . In his Autobiography , the deist Benjamin Franklin notes that he used lines from Cato's soliloquy about a benevolent God as a motto for his ...
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The Death of Hume | 44 |
The Death of Johnson | 86 |
The Death of Marat | 123 |
The Varieties of Enlightenment Thought | 162 |
Notes | 179 |
Works Cited | 203 |
Index | 211 |
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Three Deaths and Enlightenment Thought: Hume, Johnson, Marat Stephan Miller Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 2001 |
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Side 88 - To my question, whether we might not fortify our minds for the approach of death, he answered, in a passion, "No, Sir, let it alone. It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
Side 89 - For surely, nothing can so much disturb the passions, or perplex the intellects of man, as the disruption of his union with visible nature ; a separation from all that has hitherto delighted or engaged him ; a change not only of the place, but the manner of his being ; an entrance into a state not simply which he knows not, but which perhaps he has not faculties to know ; an immediate and perceptible communication with the supreme Being, and, what is above all distressful and alarming, the final...
Side 83 - The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful.
Side 102 - Though it should be granted that those who are born to poverty and drudgery should not be deprived by an improper education of the opiate of ignorance, — even this concession will not be of much use to direct our practice, unless it be determined who are those that are born to poverty. To entail irreversible poverty upon generation after generation, only because the ancestor happened to be poor, is in itself cruel, if not unjust...
Side 66 - ... with the opinion of Divine illuminations, and with a contempt for the common rules of reason, morality, and prudence. It is thus enthusiasm produces the most cruel disorders in human society; but its fury is like that of thunder and tempest, which exhaust themselves in a little time, and leave the air more calm and serene than before.
Side 94 - Treating your adversary with respect, is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled. The greatest part of men cannot judge of reasoning, and are impresssed by character; so that, if you allow your adversary a respectable character, they will think, that though you differ from him, you may be in the wrong. Sir, treating your adversary with respect, is striking soft in a battle.
Side 147 - I have lived to it; I could almost say, Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation. — I have lived to see a diffusion of knowledge, which has undermined superstition and error. — I have lived to see the rights of men better understood than ever; and nations panting for liberty which seemed to have lost the idea of it. — I have lived to see thirty millions of people, indignant and resolute, spurning at slavery, and demanding liberty with an irresistible...
Side 109 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
Side 59 - While he remains in a country village his conduct may be attended to, and he may be obliged to attend to it himself. In this situation, and in this situation only, he may have what is called a character to lose.
Side 167 - You see, Sir, that in this enlightened age I am I bold enough to confess that we are generally men of untaught feelings : that, instead of casting away all our old prejudices, we cherish them to a very considerable degree...
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