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Philosophy begins with wonder, according to Plato and Aristotle. Yet Plato and Aristotle did not expand a great deal on what precisely wonder is. Does this fact alone not raise curiosity in us as to why this passion or concept is important? What is wonder's role in science, philosophy, or theology except to end thinking or theorizing as soon as one begins? The primary purpose of this book is to show how seventeenth- and eighteenth-century developments in natural theology, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, and the philosophy of science resulted in a complex history of the passion of wonder-a history in which the elements of continuation, criticism, and reformulation are equally present. Philosophy Begins in Wonder provides the first historical overview of wonder and changes the way we see early modern Europe. It is intended for readers who are curious-who wonder-about how modern philosophy and science were born. The book is for scholars and educated readers alike.
Contents
List of Figures
Preface / Michael Funk Deckard
Abbreviations
Introduction / Péter Losonczi and Michael Funk Deckard
Part One: Historical, Scientific, and Religious Contexts
1. Wonder and Wondering in the Renaissance / Elisabeth Blum and Paul Richard Blum
2. Wonder, Magic, and Natural Philosophy: The Disenchantment Thesis Revisited / Koen Vermeir
3. Religious Awe at the Origin of Eighteenth-Century Physico-Theology / Miklós Vassányi
Part Two: Wonder in Seventeenth-Century Europe
4. Descartes on the Excellent Use of Admiration / Dorottya Kaposi
5. Admiration, Fear, and Infinity in Pascal's Thinking / Tamás Pavlovits
6. On Thomas Hobbes's Concept of Wonder / Jianhong Chen
7. "Straight toward Heaven": Natural Theology and Politics in Milton's Paradise Lost / Veronika Szántó
8. Malebranche on Restlessness and Curiosity / Roland Breeur
9. Wonder in the Age of the Saeculum: Spinoza / Gábor Boros
Part Three: Wonder in Eighteenth-Century Europe
10. Berkeley's Wonderful Divine Language: Apology and Biblical Realism / Péter Losonczi
11. "Of Curiosity, or the Love of Truth": David Hume on Wonder in A Treatise of Human Nature / Michael Funk Deckard
12. A Risk of Testimony: Astonishment and the Sublime / Baldine Saint Girons
13. Two Sources of Wonder in Early Modern Judaism / Roberta Sabbath
14. Kant and the End of Wonder / Patrick Frierson
15. Ways of Wondering: Beyond the Barbarism of Reflection / William Desmond
List of Contributors
Index of Authors
Index of Subjects
