Samuel Johnson's "general Nature": Tradition and Transition in Eighteenth-century DiscourseUniversity of Delaware Press, 1999 - 168 sivua This study illuminates the importance and meaning of the term author in eighteenth-century discourse from the perspective of its prominent usage by Samuel Johnson. It explains Johnson's employment of nature in his periodical essays, his qualified endorsement of the new science, and his commendation of Shakespeare's drama and other literary works on the basis of their just representation of general nature. |
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... intellectual commit- ment to the idea of nature manifests itself in a distinctive intellectual presentation founded in ancient metaphysics but uniquely recogni- zant and respectful of the complexities and subtleties of experi- enced ...
... intellectual commit- ment to the idea of nature manifests itself in a distinctive intellectual presentation founded in ancient metaphysics but uniquely recogni- zant and respectful of the complexities and subtleties of experi- enced ...
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... intellectual is- sues that arose during the period and on the thinking of the individ- uals who debated them . Perhaps the most significant form that this classical influence took was the origination , definition , and contri- bution ...
... intellectual is- sues that arose during the period and on the thinking of the individ- uals who debated them . Perhaps the most significant form that this classical influence took was the origination , definition , and contri- bution ...
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... intellectual nature is necessary ; our speculations upon matter are volun- tary and at leisure.30 31 Johnson's paragraph has several levels of significance , and we shall return to it later in this study . It is important to note here ...
... intellectual nature is necessary ; our speculations upon matter are volun- tary and at leisure.30 31 Johnson's paragraph has several levels of significance , and we shall return to it later in this study . It is important to note here ...
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Acknowledgments | 9 |
Classical Nature | 21 |
Medieval Nature | 36 |
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Alan of Lille Aquinas Aristotelian Aristotle assertion Boerhaave Boerhaave's Boyle Boyle's C. S. Lewis Callicles century Christian cited parenthetically Clarendon Press conception of nature consists constitutes context creation Cudworth defined definition deism Descartes divine edition eighteenth eighteenth-century nature emphasized empiricism endorsement Epicurus epistemological Essay evil exemplified existence explanation fiction further citations further quotations genius Hume Hume's ideas Idler images imagination implicit implies important inherent intellectual interpretation Jenyns Jenyns's John Johnson's commendation Johnson's conception Johnson's criticism Johnson's nature knowledge laws literary Malebranche material meaning medieval metaphysical nature mind moral realism nature's Newton objects Oxford philosophical phusis physical Plato poet poetry Pope Pope's Preface presumption principles Rambler rational reality reason reductionism relation representation represented Samuel Johnson scientific Shakespeare skepticism Stoic Summa theologica supplied parenthetically teleological theological things Thomas Reid Thomist tion tradition truth ture ultimate University Press virtue Yale York
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