The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter write by Steven Nadler. This book was released on 2015-05-26. The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How a famous painting opens a window into the life, times, and philosophy of René Descartes In the Louvre museum hangs a portrait that is considered the iconic image of René Descartes, the great seventeenth-century French philosopher. And the painter of the work? The Dutch master Frans Hals—or so it was long believed, until the work was downgraded to a copy of an original. But where is the authentic version, and who painted it? Is the man in the painting—and in its original—really Descartes? A unique combination of philosophy, biography, and art history, The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter investigates the remarkable individuals and circumstances behind a small portrait. Through this image—and the intersecting lives of a brilliant philosopher, a Catholic priest, and a gifted painter—Steven Nadler opens a fascinating portal into Descartes's life and times, skillfully presenting an accessible introduction to Descartes's philosophical and scientific ideas, and an illuminating tour of the volatile political and religious environment of the Dutch Golden Age. As Nadler shows, Descartes's innovative ideas about the world, about human nature and knowledge, and about philosophy itself, stirred great controversy. Philosophical and theological critics vigorously opposed his views, and civil and ecclesiastic authorities condemned his writings. Nevertheless, Descartes's thought came to dominate the philosophical world of the period, and can rightly be called the philosophy of the seventeenth century. Shedding light on a well-known image, The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter offers an engaging exploration of a celebrated philosopher's world and work.
The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter (eGalley)
The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter (eGalley) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter (eGalley) write by Steven Nadler. This book was released on . The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter (eGalley) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Spinoza
Spinoza - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spinoza write by Steven M. Nadler. This book was released on 2018-08-16. Spinoza available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A fully updated new edition of the prize-winning and now standard biography of the great seventeenth-century philosopher Spinoza.
Heretics!
Heretics! - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Heretics! write by Steven Nadler. This book was released on 2017-06-05. Heretics! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An entertaining, enlightening, and humorous graphic narrative of the dangerous thinkers who laid the foundation of modern thought This entertaining and enlightening graphic narrative tells the exciting story of the seventeenth-century thinkers who challenged authority—sometimes risking excommunication, prison, and even death—to lay the foundations of modern philosophy and science and help usher in a new world. With masterful storytelling and color illustrations, Heretics! offers a unique introduction to the birth of modern thought in comics form—smart, charming, and often funny. These contentious and controversial philosophers—from Galileo and Descartes to Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, and Newton—fundamentally changed the way we look at the world, society, and ourselves, overturning everything from the idea that the Earth is the center of the cosmos to the notion that kings have a divine right to rule. More devoted to reason than to faith, these thinkers defended scandalous new views of nature, religion, politics, knowledge, and the human mind. Heretics! tells the story of their ideas, lives, and times in a vivid new way. Crisscrossing Europe as it follows them in their travels and exiles, the narrative describes their meetings and clashes with each other—as well as their confrontations with religious and royal authority. It recounts key moments in the history of modern philosophy, including the burning of Giordano Bruno for heresy, Galileo's house arrest for defending Copernicanism, Descartes's proclaiming cogito ergo sum, Hobbes's vision of the "nasty and brutish" state of nature, and Spinoza's shocking Theological-Political Treatise. A brilliant account of one of the most brilliant periods in philosophy, Heretics! is the story of how a group of brave thinkers used reason and evidence to triumph over the authority of religion, royalty, and antiquity.
The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism
The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism write by Steven M. Nadler. This book was released on 2019. The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An illustrious team of scholars offer a rich survey of the thought of Rene Descartes; of the development of his ideas by those who followed in his footsteps; and of the reaction against Cartesianism. Epistemology, method, metaphysics, physics, mathematics, moral philosophy, political thought, medical thought, and aesthetics are all covered.
