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Zusatztext 'This is an important pioneering work...its author has done a considerable service to anyone interested in the intellectual development of Ireland.' - P.J. McGrath! Irish Times'The ultimate refutation of the Irish joke ... a comprehensive summary of the varied patterns of thought as they have evolved through the ages.' - The Tuam Herald'This book is a significant contribution to the history of Irish thought! and contains much that will be of interest to all students of Irish culture.' - Eddie Hyland! Irish Studies Review'This book is a significant contribution to the history of Irish thought! and contains much that will be of interest to all students of Irish culture.''Lucidly written and timely ... an impressive achievement and deserves a wide audience! including all those interested in Irish culture.' - Dermot Moran! Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews'A marvellous book! clear comprehensive and a pleasure to read.' - Australian Journal of Irish-Australian Studies'Thomas Duddy ... has distilled a great mass of material (the bibliography is 25 pages long) into a marvellous book! clear! comprehensive and a pleasure to read.' - The Australian Irish Network' ... Duddy has presented us with quite a detailed history! which reveals something of the diversity and interest of the contributions made by the Irish ... Duddy's main virtues as an historian of thought are his sustained attempt to be as inclusive and as fair as possible to the thinkers he deals with! not forgetting the clarity of his prose style.' - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie Informationen zum Autor Thomas Duddy teaches in the Department of Philosophy at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He is author of Mind, Self and Interiority (1995). Klappentext This is the first complete introduction to Irish thought ever available. This volume will be of great value to anyone interested in Irish culture and its intellectual history. Zusammenfassung This is the first complete introduction to Irish thought ever available. This volume will be of great value to anyone interested in Irish culture and its intellectual history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgements 1 Interpreting Marvels: The Irish Augustine Enter, the Irish Augustine The theology of the Flood The theology of marvels The theology of angelic ministry The Irish Augustine and the African Doctor 2 The Philosophy of Creation: John Scottus Eriugena The five modes of interpretation The four conceptions of nature Nature, theophany, and pantheism The gendered and the pristine body The return to God Eriugena and the cult of the Free Spirit Scholars or thinkers: A postscript on Peter of Ireland and Richard Fitzralph 3 Nature Observed: Robert Boyle, William Molyneux, and the New Learning Robert Boyle, the Christian virtuoso Touching the spring of the air: A new departure ' A piece of green-wood burning': Boyle against the elements A thinking gentleman: William Molyneux, new learner and patriot Mr Molyneux to Mr Locke: An Anglo-Irish correspondence Against the self-image of the age: Michael Moore, a Paris Aristotelian from Ireland 4 John Toland and the Ascendancy of Reason Reason, revelation, and meaning Tyranny, superstition, and the politics of pantheism 'As in a glass darkly': Peter Browne and the argument from analogy Other partisans of mystery: Edward Synge and Philip Skelton God, good, and privation: The theodicy of William King Spirit and motion: The Philosophical animism of Robert Clayton Wonderfully Mending the World: George Berkeley and Jonathan Swift Seeing things: Berkeley's theory of vision Seeing (and not seeing) things: Berkeley's philosophy of perception The visible language of god The converting imagination: Swift against the moderns Modernism as madness: The moral of the Tale Abolishing Christianity: Swift against the free thinkers An unsentimental journey: Gulliver and the perversion of reason 6...
