- Hardcover: 261 pages
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press (28 Mar 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0521560292
- ISBN-13: 978-0521560290
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 16 x 2.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,558,362 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In this study of Robert Boyle's epistemology, Jan W. Wojcik reveals the theological context within which Boyle developed his views on reason's limits. After arguing that a correct interpretation of his views on 'things above reason' depends upon reading his works in the context of theological controversies in seventeenth-century England, Professor Wojcik details exactly how Boyle's three specific categories of things which transcend reason – the incomprehensible, the inexplicable, and the unsociable – affected his conception of what a natural philosopher could hope to know. Also covered in detail is Boyle's belief that God had deliberately limited the human intellect in order to reserve a full knowledge of both theology and natural philosophy for the afterlife.
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This study of Boyle's epistemology reveals the theological context within which he developed his views on reason's limits. It also details how Boyle's three specific categories of things which transcend reason – the incomprehensible, the inexplicable, and the unsociable – affected his conception of what a natural philosopher could hope to know.
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When confronted with the charge that the doctrine of Christ's Incarnation was irrational, the African Church Father Tertullian (c. 160-c. 220) cheerfully responded, "And the Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed, because it is absurd. Read the first page
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When confronted with the charge that the doctrine of Christ's Incarnation was irrational, the African Church Father Tertullian (c. 160-c. 220) cheerfully responded, "And the Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed, because it is absurd. Read the first page
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