Thesis ID: CBB001561292

The Disavowal of Renaissance Philosophical Crises and the Geneses of Modern Philosophy and Science (2007)

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Aleksander, Jason (Author)


Vanderbilt University
Dobbs-Weinstein, Idit


Publication Date: 2007
Edition Details: Advisor: Dobbs-Weinstein, Idit
Physical Details: 228 pp.
Language: English

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.

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Description Cited in Diss. Abstr. Int. A 68/12 (2008). Pub. no. AAT 3293855.


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Authors & Contributors
Hirai, Hiro
Akopyan, Ovanes
Kircher, Timothy
Wyczanski, Andrzej
Wlodarczyk, Jaroslaw
Vons, Jacqueline
Concepts
Humanism
Astronomy
Philosophy
Medicine
Natural philosophy
Cosmology
Time Periods
Renaissance
15th century
16th century
17th century
Early modern
Places
Italy
Europe
Florence (Italy)
England
Prague (Czechia)
Poland
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