Aleksander, Jason (Author)
The dissertation has two specific aims. First, the dissertation provides a description of how, in the Renaissance, "Humanist Christo-Platonism" became the dominant philosophical response to crises of Medieval and Renaissance theology and philosophy. Second, the dissertation discusses consequences of the disavowal of the legacy of Humanist Christo-Platonism in the dominant habits and conventions of modern philosophy and science. Specifically, the dissertation highlights three features of Renaissance Humanism that emerged in response to late Medieval and early Renaissance Philosophical crises: (a) the development of a "secular theology" characterized by an increasing political and philosophical focus on the natural/unregenerate human as distinct from the baptized/regenerated Christian; (b) a more historically contextualized understanding of human knowledge, especially through the secularization of conceptions of history as the unfolding of divine providence; and (c) an increasing insistence on the possibility of systematic unification of scientific knowledge, especially through mathematical techniques. With respect to these aims, the dissertation employs hermeneutic textual analysis of works of Dante and Copernicus in order to illustrate the description of a disavowed legacy of Humanist Christo-Platonism in modern science and philosophy. To discuss how the disavowed legacy of Humanist Christo-Platonism operates as a prejudice within modern scientific and philosophical conventions, I also draw upon Baruch Spinoza's critique of religion in the Theological-Political Treatise.
...MoreDescription Cited in Diss. Abstr. Int. A 68/12 (2008). Pub. no. AAT 3293855.
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