Overview
- Reveals fundamental trends in the interrelated fields of early modern philosophy, theology and politics
- Reassess the question of the moral status of unbelievers in the early modern period
- Explores early modern controversies and the theological debate on pagan salvation
Part of the book series: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées (ARCH, volume 229)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Humanist Background
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Front Matter
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The Theological Debate
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The Philosophers and the Unbelievers
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Afterlife
- Montaigne’s Gods
- Pagan Sources
- Pico della Mirandola
- Frenzied Sibyls
- Venerable Prophets
- Sebastian Castellio
- Biblical Canon
- Tommaso Campanella’s Advancement of Learning
- Pagan Salvation
- Pagan Virtues
- Collius and La Mothe Le Vayer
- Metaphysico-Moral Paradoxes of Divine Assistance
- Moral Philosophy
- Hobbes’s Covenant
- Pagan Monotheism
- Fénelon
- Jesuits and Chinese Atheism
About this book
This thought provoking book deals with religious scholarship and important controversies of the early modern period, specifically those relating to the question of the salvation of the pagans and the afterlife. From the Reformation, through the Renaissance and on to the seventeenth and eighteenth century, this was a time when religious scholarship was updated with the discoveries of the New World and colonial expansion. These chapters present new work, shedding light on the interplay of philosophy and theology in key thinkers such as Montaigne, Leibniz, Bayle and Spinoza, but also in less known authors such as Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola and Sebastian Castellio.
Readers will discover analysis of the reshaping of specific theological issues, focussing on the reception of ancient philosophical traditions such as Platonism, Aristotelianism, Stoicism, Epicureanism, and scepticism. The authors investigate the relationship between the ethical models inspired by the heroes andphilosophers of antiquity and the ‘new philosophy’. Above all, this book enables exploration of the ways in which discussions of the salvation and virtues of pagans intersected with the early modern reception of ancient philosophy, including a reassessment of the question of the moral status of unbelievers in the early modern period.
Students and faculty working on early modern intellectual history will find that this book both inspires and enriches their knowledge. Those with an interest in Renaissance humanism, the history of early modern philosophy and science, in theology, or the history of religion will also appreciate the new contributions that it makes.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Alberto Frigo is assistant professor of History of Modern Philosophy at the Università degli Studi of Milan. His research interest is primarily in the relationship between metaphysics and theology in the early modern times. He has published an edition and Italian translation of the correspondence of Montaigne (Le Monnier, 2010) and he is finalizing an edition of Raymond Sebond’s Theologia naturalis and its French translation by Montaigne (Garnier, 2 vols). He is the author of a readers’ guide to Pascal’s Pensées (L’Évidence du Dieu caché: introduction à la lecture des Pensées de Pascal, Presses Universitaires de Rouen et du Havre, 2015, 20163) and a monograph on Pascal’s philosophy of love (L’Esprit du corps: la doctrine pascalienne de l’amour, Vrin, 2016).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Inexcusabiles: Salvation and the Virtues of the Pagans in the Early Modern Period
Editors: Alberto Frigo
Series Title: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40017-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40016-3Published: 15 March 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40019-4Published: 15 March 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-40017-0Published: 14 March 2020
Series ISSN: 0066-6610
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0307
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 234
Topics: History of Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Modern Philosophy, Intellectual Studies, History of Religion