The Sovereignty of Reason: The Defense of Rationality in the Early English Enlightenment
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The Sovereignty of Reason: The Defense of Rationality in the Early English Enlightenment
By (Author) Frederick C. Beiser
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge
History of ideas
128.33
Physical Properties
Paperback
346
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
482g
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The Sovereignty of Reason is a survey of the rule of faith controversy in seventeenth-century England. It examines the arguments by which reason eventually became the sovereign standard of truth in religion and politics, and how it triumphed over its rivals: Scripture, inspiration, and apostolic tradition. Frederick Beiser argues that the main thre
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"The developments covered in this book have often been neglected, and it is more than useful to have the story well told."--Choice
