Pantheism, Panpsychism, and Secularization: Case Studies from Early Modernity

Elisabeth Blum; Paul Richard Blum

doi:10.24894/978-3-7965-5127-7

Summary

Pantheism and panpsychism view the divine as omnipresent in the world or declare everything to be animated. This book presents a small number of case studies that show how these theories arose in the Renaissance and were linked to the overall intellectual climate of early modernity that became increasingly secularized. Pantheism and panentheism (the view that God embraces the world) preluded modern secularism as the attitude that deems religion and theology irrelevant to science. One case is Renaissance magic as a comprehensive worldview. Cosmology debated the relation between the Creator and creation so that it could be relegated to either mythology or divine transcendence. The idea of universal ensoulment shaped a secular physics as visible in the theory of mind and in the modern development of monadology.

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Edition: 1/2024
Copyright Year: 2024
ISBN-Print: 978-3-7965-5126-0
ISBN-Online: 978-3-7965-5127-7
Publisher: Schwabe, Basel / Berlin
Language: English
Pages: 160
Product Type: Monograph

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 10
1. Magic – an Elusive Concept No access
2. Religion versus Magic No access
3. Biblical Testimonies and Attitudes Concerning Magic No access
4. The Promise of a Universal Formula No access
5. Marsilio Ficino's Astrological Magic No access
6. Faith and Creative Imagination in Magic, or: How to Build Your Own System No access
7. The Worlds of Giordano Bruno No access
8. Campanella's Double Soul and Trinitarian Principle of Being No access
9. Conclusion No access
1. Grynaeus and De mundo No access
2. Cosmology Natural and Theological No access
3. Transcendence and Immanence No access
4. The Names and Offices of God No access
5. New Worlds No access
6. Grynaeus in Context No access
1. World-Soul, Universe, and Christ No access
2. Christ in the Sky No access
3. The Semantics of Identity No access
4. Terminological Pantheism No access
1. Notes on the History and Semantics of ˋAnimal Spirits' No access
2. Animal Spirits in Descartes' Correspondence No access
3. Animal Spirits in the Treatise on Man No access
4. Spirits in the Optics No access
5. Gassendi's Objections Regarding Sensing and Thinking No access
6. The Soul in the Passions of the Soul No access
7. Meditations on Animal Spirits No access
8. Animal Spirits as a Version of Panpsychism No access
9. Relation Lost: Meditations on René Descartes No access
1. Whitehead's Reception of Monadology No access
2. Giordano Bruno on the Singular as the One No access
3. Ficino: The One in the Single and Bruno's Continuation of It in Monadology No access
4. Plotinus: Productive Identity No access
5. Bruno: Monad as Sign No access
6. Leibniz and Campanella: Spirit Without Subject No access
7. Conclusion No access
Bibliography No access Pages 143 - 154
Index No access Pages 155 - 160