The Third Force in Seventeenth Century ThoughtThis volume consists of more than twenty articles by Richard H. Popkin on the history of modern philosophy, written between 1980 and 1990, including several not published before this. The topics covered in these studies range over religious and theological influences in modern philosophy, further material in the history of scepticism dealing with Hobbes, Henry More and Pascal, as well as Moritz Schlick, new findings about Spinoza, pre-Adamism, Ralph Cudworth, Isaac Newton's religious views, 18th century racism, and the liberalism of Condorcet. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Condorcet Abolitionist | 50 |
Humes Racism Reconsidered | 64 |
Condorcet and Hume and Turgot | 76 |
Scepticism Science and Millenarianism 320 | 90 |
Spinozas Relations with the Quakers in Amsterdam | 120 |
Spinoza and the Three Imposters | 135 |
The Marranos of Amsterdam | 149 |
Some Unresolved Questions in the History of Scepticism | 222 |
Scepticism Old and New | 223 |
The Scepticism of Joseph Glanvill | 246 |
Schlick and Scepticism | 254 |
The Religious Background of SeventeenthCentury Phil osophy | 268 |
Predicting Prophecying Divining and Foretelling from Nostradamus to Hume | 285 |
An Aspect of the Problem of Religious Freedom in the French and American Revolutions | 308 |
Cudworth | 333 |
Newtons Biblical Theology and his Theological Physics | 172 |
Newton and Maimonides | 189 |
The Incurable Scepticism of Henry More Blaise Pas cal and Søren Kierkegaard | 203 |
Roads that Led Beyond Judaism and Christianity | 351 |
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