John Sergeant and His Circle: A Study of Three Seventeenth-Century English Aristotelians (Leather) (ISBN-13: 9789004097568)

This book presents an account of the essentially Aristotelian philosophy of John Sergeant (1623-1707) and his Blackloist colleagues, Kenelm Digby and Thomas White. Despite their notoriety as Catholic controversialists in the mid-seventeenth century, Sergeant and his circle have long suffered from historical neglect, and Professor Krook's work provides a useful corrective to conventional historiography.
Digby, White and Sergeant were all concerned to present a coherent philosophical and theological framework, which would provide some certainty in the face of the contemporary sceptical challenge, and the author shows how their work was securely based on traditional Aristotelian foundations. Through a detailed discussion of Aristotelian methodology, she shows how, in the face of Protestant misunderstanding, they justified their own claims for certainty.
This study restores Sergeant and his circle to their proper historical importance and provides an original and illuminating study of late seventeenth-century Aristotelian philosophy.

Author: Beverley C. Southgate,Dorothea Krook
ISBN-10: 9004097562
ISBN-13: 9789004097568
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 10/01/1993
Pages: 177
Format: Leather
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.10w x 0.50d