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" Regimens of the mind : "
Sorana Corneanu
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BL
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711447
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b533636
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| Main Entry
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Corneanu, Sorana
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| Title & Author
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Regimens of the mind : : Boyle, Locke, and the early modern cultura animi tradition /\ Sorana Corneanu
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago ;London :: The University of Chicago Press,, 2011
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ix, 308 p. ;; 24 cm
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0226116395 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 9780226116396 (cloth : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-300) and index
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| Contents
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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
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Boyle, Robert,1627-1691-- Philosophy
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Locke, John,1632-1704
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Education-- Philosophy-- History-- 17th century
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Philosophy of mind-- England-- History-- 17th century
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Philosophy, British-- History-- 17th century
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| Dewey Classification
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192
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B1131.C67 2011
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