文档介绍：This page intentionally left blank
THE PHILOSOPHER IN EARLY
MODERN EUROPE
In this groundbreaking collection of essays the history of philosophy
appears in a new light, not as reason’s progressive discovery of its
universal conditions, but as a series of unreconciled disputes over the
proper way to conduct oneself as a philosopher. By shifting focus
from the philosopher as proxy for the universal subject of reason to
the philosopher as a special persona arising from rival forms of self-
cultivation, philosophy is approached in terms of the social office
and intellectual deportment of the philosopher, as a personage with a
definite moral physiognomy and institutional setting. In so doing,
this collection of essays by leading figures in the fields of both
philosophy and the history of ideas provides access to key early
modern disputes over what it meant to be a philosopher, and to
the institutional and larger political and religious contexts in which
such disputes took place.
CONAL CONDREN is Scientia Professor Emeritus at the University
of New South Wales, and a Fellow of both the Australian Academy
of the Humanities and of the Social Sciences.
STEPHEN GAUKROGER is Professor of History and Philosophy of
Science, and ARC Professorial Fellow at the University of Sydney,
and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities.
IAN HUNTER is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities
and a Research Professor in the Centre for the History of European
Discourses at the University of Queensland.
IDEAS IN CONTEXT 77
The Philosopher in Early Modern Europe
IDEAS IN CONTEXT
Edited by Quentin Skinner and James Tully
The books in this series will discuss the emergence of intellectual traditions and
of related new disciplines. The procedures, aims and vocabularies that were
generated will be set in the context of the alternatives available within the
contemporary frameworks of ideas and institutions. Through detailed studies
of the evolutio