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BL
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992869
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b747239
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| Main Entry
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Wojcik, Jan W.
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| Title & Author
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Robert Boyle and the limits of reason /\ Jan W. Wojcik.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 1997.
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1 online resource (xvi, 243 pages)
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| ISBN
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0511573006
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: 9780511573002
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0521525225
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0521560292
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9780521560290
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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pt. 1. The theological context -- pt. 2. The context of natural philosophy.
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| Abstract
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In this study of Robert Boyle's epistemology, Jan W. Wojcik reveals the theological context within which Boyle developed his views on reason's limits. After arguing that a correct interpretation of his views on 'things above reason' depends upon reading his works in the context of theological controversies in seventeenth-century England, Professor Wojcik details exactly how Boyle's three specific categories of things which transcend reason - the incomprehensible, the inexplicable, and the unsociable - affected his conception of what a natural philosopher could hope to know. Also covered in detail is Boyle's belief that God had deliberately limited the human intellect in order to reserve a full knowledge of both theology and natural philosophy for the afterlife.
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Boyle, Robert,1627-1691.
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Boyle, Robert,1627-1691.
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Natural theology-- History of doctrines-- 17th century.
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Philosophical theology-- History-- 17th century.
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Reason-- History-- 17th century.
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Theological anthropology-- Christianity-- History of doctrines-- 17th century.
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Natural theology-- History of doctrines.
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Philosophical theology.
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Reason.
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Theological anthropology-- Christianity-- History of doctrines.
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| Dewey Classification
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192
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B1201.B44W64 1997
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Cambridge University Press.
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