Flesh in the Age of ReasonPenguin UK, 2005/01/27 - 592 ページ 'As an introduction to early modern thinking and the impact of past ideas on present lives, this book can find few equals and no superiors. Porter is a witty, humane writer with an extraordinary vocabulary and a sparkling sense of fun. Whether he is quoting from obscure medical texts or analysing scabrous diaries, dishing the dirt on long-dead bigwigs or evoking sympathy for human suffering, his grasp is masterly and his erudition appealing. I wish I could read it again for the first time: you can.' Times Educational Supplement, Book of the Week |
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... RELIGION AND THE SOUL 3 MEDICINE AND THE BODY 4 THE RATIONAL SELF 5 SCIENCE RESCUES THE SPIRIT 6 JOHN LOCKE REWRITES THE SOUL PART II. MEN OF LETTERS 7 THE SPECTATOR: THE POLITE SELF IN THE POLITE BODY 8 SHAFTESBURY AND MANDEVILLE 9 ...
... large – especially those whose daily life was blighted with poverty, affliction and violence – those for whom the prospect of eternal bliss was the only redress for this vale of tears: religion, indeed, as the opium of the people. From.
Roy Porter. tears: religion, indeed, as the opium of the people. From Luther onwards, Protestantism had thrown a ... religious truth in England. Faith was irrevocably splintered into antagonistic factions – Anglicans both high and low ...
... religion the notion of a hammer-fisted Almighty meting out woes in this world as a prelude to eternal retribution in the world to come. As the business, profits and pleasures of temporal existence crowded out the mysteries of eternity ...
... world, a move from a time when everything was ensouled (animism) towards a present day in which the soul is no longer an object of scientific inquiry, though mind may still just be. 2 RELIGION AND THE SOUL How my soul, which I.
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SCIENCE RESCUES THE SPIRIT | |
JOHN LOCKE REWRITES THE SOUL | |
THE POLITE SELF IN THE POLITE BODY | |
NIGHTMARE SELVES 10 JOHNSON AND INCORPORATED MINDS 11 EDWARD GIBBON FAME AND MORTALITY | |