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E-book A Complex Relation : Reading Anne Conway from a Process Theology Perspective

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The seventeenth-century philosopher Anne Conway (1631–1679) has received renewed attention from scholars of various fields during the last three decades. Preeminently, the historian of philosophy Sarah Hutton has contributed import-ant work to this scholarly development by publishing a re-edited version of the Viscountess’ correspondence, published in 1992, and by writing a seminal intel-lectual biography, published in 2004. Numerous other historians of philosophy have directed their attention to Conway and have convincingly shown her to be an important contributor to the philosophical debates of her time. Her only work, a short treatise entitled The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy is a strong critique of the most influential philosophers of her time, René Des-cartes (1596–1650), Baruch de Spinoza (1632–1677), and Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679). In the treatise, she proposes a highly original anti-dualist, anti-pantheist, and anti-materialist solution to the mind-body problem.More recently, there has been budding interest in Conway from other per-spectives than that of the history of philosophy. The theologian Catherine Keller (1953–) reads the Principles as a prefiguration of a post-modern anti-dualism that views reality as a continuous and fluid process of becoming. Relatedness, free-dom, and identity are the main themes taken up by Keller in her reading of Con-way, which seeks to address some contemporary theological issues. As a process theologian, Keller speaks from within a strand of theology that is based on the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947), who saw in Descartes’s phi-losophy – and in most philosophy thereafter – an unfortunate tendency to con-ceptualize being by way of a static substance ontology. Whitehead argues that modern philosophy since Descartes has viewed reality as something fixed and objective that can be described definitively. In contrast, his own philosophy places emphasis on the value of subjective experience, thus making context and inter-pretation the fundamental building blocks of reality.These two different philosophical strands provide the background for the present analysis of Anne Conway’s theology as the contrast between them is used as a means to exploring a subtle tension in her Principles. As a seventeenth-centu-ry philosopher, Anne Conway operates within a paradigm that views substance as independent and static but Keller argues that the Principles contains an alter-native ontology that is based on a fluid and inherently interdependent substance theory and which therefore views reality as a processual movement of continuous becoming.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

230 FEL a

Penerbit

Germany : Aschendorff Verlag., 2022

Deskripsi Fisik

269 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9783402137437

Klasifikasi

230

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text

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computer

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online resource

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Christianity

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