Oeuvres politiques de Jacques Harrington, écuyer : contenant la République d'Océana, les Aphorismes, & les autres traités du même auteur ; précédées de l'Histoire de sa vie, écrite par Jean - Toland ; Ouvrage traduit de l'anglois [par Pierre François Henry] ; Tome premier [-troisième]

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Bayle historien et critique du matérialisme dans le dictionnaire

Bayle affirme que les atomistes auraient dû rester fidèles à une curieuse thèse attribuée au fondateur de l'atomisme, Démocrite, à savoir que les atomes ont une âme. En effet, montre Bayle par plusieurs arguments, il est impossible que la pensée émerge de la matière. Dès lors, l'atomisme doit se donner d'emblée la pensée comme présente dans chacun des atomes. Dans la même ligne, Bayle montre que, plus généralement, tout matérialisme conséquent doit être un panpsiquismo : toutes les parties de la matière doivent penser, et penser toujours. Mais cela conduit à des conséquences difficilement acceptables, telles que des cadavres pensants. De plus, le conseil qu'il donne aux matérialistes (suivre Démocrite) est une mesure qu'il croit en réalité inapplicable, puisque selon Bayle la pensée est incompatible avec l'étendue, leurs propriétés étant opposées et chaque substance n'ayant qu'un attribut. Ce que Bayle entend donc faire, dans cette fantaisie historique sur Démocrite, est de réduire le matérialisme à une position absurde.

The Oceana of James Harrington, esq; and his other works: with an account of his life prefix'd,

The dedication -- The preface -- The life of James Harrington [by J. Toland] -- The grounds and reasons of monarchy consider'd -- The commonwealth of Oceana -- The prerogative of popular government -- The art of law-giving -- A word concerning a House of peers -- Six political tracts ... viz. I. Valerius and Publicola. A dialogue. II. A system of politics ... III. Political aphorisms. IV. Seven models of a common-wealth ... V. The ways and means of introducing a common-wealth by the consent of the people. VI. The humble petition of divers well affected persons; with the Parliament's answer thereto -- Plato redivivus: or, A dialogue concerning government ... 3d ed. with additions.

The Oceana and other works of Iames Harrington ; /

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A critical history of the Celtic religion and learning ... With the history of Abaris, the Hyperborian, priest of the sun.

"Containing an account of the druids; or the priests and judges, of the vaids, or the diviners and physicians; and of the bards, or the poets and heralds; of the ancient Gauls, Britons, Irish and Scots."

Defensio religionis, necnon Mosis & gentis Judaïcae, contra duas dissertationes Joh. Tolandi quarum una inscribitur Adeisidæmon, altera verò Antiquitates Judaïcæ.

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John Waldridge, The Leaven of the Ancients: Suhrawardi and the Heritage of the Greeks, SUNY Series in Islam (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999). Pp. 323

In the Leaven of the Ancients, John Walbridge studies the appropriation of non–Peripatetic philosophical ideas by an anti–Aristotelian Islamic philosopher, Shihab al-Din al-Suhrawardi (d. 1191). He proposes a comprehensive explanation of the origin of Suhrawardi's philosophical system, a revival of the “wisdom of the Ancients” and its philosophical affiliations “grounded” in Greek philosophy (p. xiii). Walbridge attempts to uncover the reasons for Suhrawardi's rejection of the prevailing neo–Aristotelian synthesis in Islamic philosophy, Suhrawardi's knowledge and understanding of non–Aristotelian Greek philosophy, the ancient philosophers Suhrawardi was attempting to follow, the relationship between Suhrawardi's specific philosophical teachings (logic, ontology, physics, and metaphysics), and his understanding of non–Aristotelian ancient philosophy and the relationship between Suhrawardi's system and the major Greek philosophers, schools, and traditions—in particular the Presocratics, Plato, and the Stoics (p. 8). Copyright © 2003 Cambridge University Press

The John Dewey`s epistemology and informational literacy

The `reflexive thinking` concept is discussed in this article as a means of contextualizing John Dewey`s intellectual legacy. `Reflection` represents a fundamental element for the construction of the necessary competences to information seeking and use, and consequently to individual and collective development. Since the reflexive thinking habit in information literacy is a way of learning, some questions concerning teaching and learning processes are also investigated. The discussion is, therefore, supported by the supposition that reflexive thinking is a cognitive strategy that allows a deeper comprehension of related problems, phenomena, and processes by means of the perception of the relations and the identification of involved elements, as well as the analysis and interpretation of meanings, empowering the information literacy process.