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Index
Cover
Copyright
Title Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Francis Bacon and the Art of Direction
An art of tempering the mind
The distempered mind and the tree of knowledge
A comprehensive culture of the mind
The end of knowledge
The study of nature as regimen
2 Cultura and Medicina Animi: An Early Modern Tradition
The physician of the soul
Sources
Genres
Utility: practical versus speculative knowledge
Self-love and the fallen/uncultured mind
The office of reason
Passions, errors, and assent
The discipline, the virtues, and habituation
3 Virtuoso Discipline
The cure of the mind and Solomon’s House
Passions, errors, and method
Idols and diseases of the mind
Epistemic modesty
The way of inquiry
A “union of eyes and hands”: The community and objectivity revisited
4 Robert Boyle: Experience as Paideia
The limits and the “perfection” of reason
The weak mind and the virtues of a free inquiry
Reason and experience
The Christian philosopher
5 John Locke and the Education of the Mind
Limits of reason, useful knowledge, and the duty to search for truth
A natural history of the distempered mind
The regulation of assent: A perfecting exercise
The discourse with a friend
6 Studying Nature
Lived physics
The appropriateness of disproportion
Experience, history, and speculation
Affective cognition
7 Studying “God’s Contrivances”
The study of theology and the growth of the mind
Worlds and angels
Reading Scripture
Conclusion
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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