By Michael Heyd
ISBN-10: 9004101187
ISBN-13: 9789004101180
Be Sober and average bargains with the theological and clinical critique of "enthusiasm" within the 17th and early eighteenth centuries, and with the connection among enthusiasm and the hot usual philosophy in that interval. "Enthusiasm" at the moment used to be a label ascribed to varied members and teams who claimed to have direct divine proposal -- prophets, millenarists, alchemists, yet additionally experimental philosophers, or even philosophers like Descartes. The booklet makes an attempt to mix the views of highbrow historical past, Church heritage, background of drugs, and background of technological know-how, in analysing a few of the reactions to enthusiasm. The principal thesis of the e-book is that the response to enthusiasm, specifically within the Protestant global, could provide one very important key to the origins of the Enlightenment, and to the methods of secularization of eu awareness.
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