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Early Baroque (1600-1630)
(Early Baroque CultureGrid)
Britain -- France -- Germany/Austria -- Spain/Portugal
-- Other
Middle Baroque (1630-1670)
(Middle Baroque CultureGrid)
Britain -- France -- Dutch Republic
Mature Baroque (1670-1710)
(Mature Baroque CultureGrid)
Britain -- France -- Germany/Austria
Late Baroque (1710-1750)
(Late Baroque CultureGrid)
Britain -- France -- Germany/Austria -- Italy
(WWW links from Baroque Religion/Philosophy Essay profiles
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Early Baroque (1600-1630) Religion/Philosophy
Britain (1600-1630)
- Sir Francis Bacon 1561-1626
- Lancelot Andrewes 1555-1626
- English bishop of Chichester (1605), Ely (1609) and Winchester (1619)
renowned as a preacher, scholar, translator and defender of Anglican theology
against Catholic and Calvinist doctrine.
- WWW: Lancelot
Andrewes (Britannica) -- Overview and links.
- Edward Herbert, Baron Herbert of Cherbury 1583-1648
- English deist philosopher, statesman, historian and poet best known
for De Veritate (On Truth, 1624), which earned for him the
title of "father of English Deism."
- His younger brother, George Herbert, was a metaphysical poet.
- WWW: Edward
Herbert (Britannica) -- Overview and links.
- (Early Baroque CultureGrid)
France (1600-1630)
Germany/Austria (1600-1630)
- Jakob Bohme 1575-1624
- German mystic philosopher best known for his religious writings, e.g.,
Der Weg zu Christo (The Way to Christ, 1622), Mysterium
Magnum (The Great Mystery, 1623) and Von der Gnadenwahl
(On the Election of Grace, 1623).
- Bohme was particularly obsessed with the existence of evil.
- WWW -- Jakob Bohme
- (Early Baroque CultureGrid)
Spain/Portugal (1600-1630)
Other (1600-1630)
Middle Baroque (1630-1670) Religion/Philosophy
Britain (1630-1670)
- Thomas Hobbes 1588-1679
- (WWW links from Baroque Religion/Philosophy Essay Hobbes profile)
- Sir Robert Filmer c.1590-1653
- political writer and an extreme advocate of the "divine right
of kings"
- Patriarcha 1680 posth.
- Joseph Glanvill 1636-1680
- Jeremy Taylor 1613-1667
- English theologian.
- The Liberty of Prophesying (1646), The Rule and Exercises
of Holy Living (1650), The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying
(1651) and Ductor Dubitantium (1660) are among his most important
works.
- WWW: Jeremy
Taylor (Britannica) -- Overview and links.
- Richard Baxter 1615-1691
- English Puritan clergyman and prolific writer best known for his evangelical
The Saint's Everlasting Rest (1650) and Call to the Unconverted
(1657).
- WWW: Richard
Baxter (Britannica) -- Overview and links.
- Nathanael Culverwel c.1618-c.1651
- George Fox 1624-1691
- founds the Society of Friends (Quakers) in 1648
- WWW -- George Fox and Quakers
- (Middle Baroque CultureGrid)
France (1630-1670)
- Rene Descartes 1596-1650
- (WWW links from Baroque Religion/Philosophy Essay Descartes
profile)
- Blaise Pascal 1623-1662
- (WWW links from Baroque Religion/Philosophy Essay Pascal profile)
- Pierre Gassendi 1542-1655
- (WWW links from Baroque Religion/Philosophy Essay Gassendi
profile)
- Antoine Arnauld 1612-1694
- (Middle Baroque CultureGrid)
Dutch Republic (1630-1670)
- Baruch Spinoza 1632-1677
- (WWW links from Baroque Religion/Philosophy Essay Spinoza
profile)
- (Middle Baroque CultureGrid)
Mature Baroque (1670-1710) Religion/Philosophy
Britain (1670-1710)
- John Locke 1632-1704
- (WWW links from Baroque Religion/Philosophy Essay Locke profile)
- Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury
1671-1713
- English politician, student of John Locke, prominent Deist and
author of several moral and aesthetic philosophical essays published as
Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711).
- WWW: Earl
of Shaftesbury (Britannica) -- Overview and links.
- Samuel Clarke 1675-1729
- Ralph Cudworth 1617-1688
- (Mature Baroque CultureGrid)
France (1670-1710)
- Nicolas Malebranche 1638-1715
- (WWW links from Baroque Religion/Philosophy Essay Malebranche
profile)
- Pierre Bayle 1647-1706
- Protestant philosopher and critic
- (WWW links from Baroque Religion/Philosophy Essay Bayle profile)
- (Mature Baroque CultureGrid)
Germany/Austria (1670-1710)
- Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz 1646-1716
- (WWW links from Baroque Religion/Philosophy Essay Leibniz
profile)
- (Mature Baroque CultureGrid)
Late Baroque (1710-1750) Religion/Philosophy
Britain (1710-1750)
- George Berkeley 1685-1753
- David Hume 1711-1776
- Matthew Tindal 1657-1733
- (WWW links from Baroque Religion/Philosophy Essay Tindal profile)
- Joseph Butler 1692-1752
- David Hartley 1705-1757
- philosopher, psychologist and physician; Observations on Man, His
Frame, His Duty and His Expectations (1749)
- Francis Hutcheson 1694-1746
- Jonathan Edwards 1703-1758
- first American colonial theologian; a Calvinist (i.e., Puritan);
responsible for the "Great Awakening"
- (Late Baroque CultureGrid)
France (1710-1750)
- Baron de Montesquieu 1689-1755
- Julien Offroy de La Mettrie 1709-1751
- (Late Baroque CultureGrid)
Germany/Austria (1710-1750)
- Hermann Reimarus 1694-1768
- (WWW links from Baroque Religion/Philosophy Essay Reimarus
profile)
- Christian Wolff 1679-1754
- (Late Baroque CultureGrid)
Italy (1710-1750)
- Giambattista Vico 1668-1744
- Italian philosopher of cultural history recognized as a forerunner
of cultural anthropology and best known for Scienza nuova (New
Science, 1725).
- Vico described human societies as passing cyclicly through 4 stages
of growth and decay: 1) the bestial condition; 2) the age of the gods,
in which man is ruled by fear of the supernatural; 3) the age of heroes,
in which man forms protective alliances and unequal social classes arise;
4) the age of man, in which the plebeians achieve equal rights but the
ensuing corruption returns man to barbarism.
- James Joyce used Vico's theories in Finnegans Wake.
- WWW -- Giambattista Vico
- Francesco Algarotti 1712-1764
- Italian philosopher, cultural critic and essayist, especially popular
in Parisian intellectual circles.
- WWW: Francesco
Algarotti (Britannica) -- Overview and links.
- (Late Baroque CultureGrid)
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