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Editor's Introduction
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I
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Part Six. Revolution
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1. Apostasy
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§1. The Rearticulation of the Christian Era
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31
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§2. Bossuet and Voltaire
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34
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a. Bossuet's Universal History
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b. Secularized History
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c. The Relevance of Rome
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d. Voltaire's Universal History
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§3. The Reconstruction of Historical Meaning
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40
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The
Esprit Humain
as the Object of History
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b. Intramundane Sacred History
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c. The Structure of Intramundane History
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§4. The Continuity of Christian with Intramundane Problems
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a. The Variations of Intramundane History
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b. Bossuet's
Histoire des variations des Églises protestantes
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c. The
Libre Examen
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d. Bossuet's Conférence avec M. Claude
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§5. The Dynamics of Secularization
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a. The Dissociation of the Western Universalisms
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b. The Phases of Dissociation
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c. First and Second Phases: Spiritual Destruction and
Respiritualization
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d. Third Phase: The Authority of the Church and the
Christian Symbols
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§6. Voltaire's Attack
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a. The
Éléments de philosophie de Newton
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b. God and the Soul
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c. The Foundation of Ethics
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d. The Meaning of Reason
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e. Philosophical Sectarianism
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f. The Realm between the Spirits
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g. Compassion
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2. The Schismatic Nations
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§1. The Vacuum of Reason
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71
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§2. The Irritation of Parochialism
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72
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§3. The Schismatic Cosmion
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a. The Spiritual Closure of the National Cosmion
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b. The French Case
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c. The English Case
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d. The German Case
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§4. The Time Structure of the Closing Process
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a. The Problem of Closure
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b. The English-French Time Structure
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c. The French-German Time Structure
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d. The Results
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3. Giambattista Vico--
La scienza nuova
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§1. Italian Politics
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a. City-State and National State
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b. Italian "Decadence"
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c. Municipalization and Emigration
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§2. The Work of Vico
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a. Style and Mode Expression
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b. The Secularist Interpretation
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c. The Meditative Character of the Work
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d. The Phases of the Meditation
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§3. The Idea of a New Science
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a. Ambivalence and Pathos
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b. Reversal of the Apostatic Movement
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§4. The Steps of the Meditation
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a.
Verum Est Factum
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b. The Philological Origin
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c. The Conjecture on the Pagan Level
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d. The Christian Level
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e. Neoplatonism
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§5. The Continuum of Western Ideas
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§6. The Model of Nature
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a. The Metaphysical Point and the
Conatus
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b. The Systematic Function of the Model
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c. The Attack on Phenomenalism
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d. The Attack on the
Cogito
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e. The Transfer of the Model to History
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§7. The
Mondo Civile
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a. The Science of History
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b. Vico's Anthropology
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c. The Autonomy of the Spirit
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d.
The Recursus
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§8.
Recursus
and
Ricorso
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a. The Problem in the
Diritto universale
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b. The Problem in the "First"
Scienza nuova
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c. The Problem in the "Third"
Scienza nuova
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d. Vico and Saint Augustine
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§9. The
Storia Eterna Ideale
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a. Formulation of the Principle
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b. The Historicity of the Mind
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c. Providential contemplation
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§10. The
Senso Commune
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a. Positive Definitions
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b. Critical Clarification
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c. History and Philosophy of Humanity
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§11. The Political Structure of the
Corso
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a.
Stato Ferino
and Divine Age
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b. The Heroic Age
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c. The Human Age
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d. Summarizing Characterization of the
Corso
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e. The
Mente Eroica
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§12. Conclusion
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4. The English Quest for the Concrete
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§1. The Model Polity
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a. A Stagnant Population
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b. Gin
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c. The Purge of the Church
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d. Warburton's Political Sermons
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e. The Gladstone-Newman Controversy
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§2. The Loss of the Concrete
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a. Materialization of the External World
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b. Psychologization of the Self
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c. Culverwel's Reason
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d. Whichcote's Reason
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e. Locke's Reason
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f. Locke's
Reasonableness of Christianity
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Toland's
Christianity Not Mysterious
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§3. Absolute Space and Relativity
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a. Relativity from Copernicus to Leibnitz
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b. Galileo's Conflict with the Inquisition
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c. Newton's Assumption of Absolute Space
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d. The Influence of Henry More
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e. Berkeley's Psychological Criticism
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f. The Deadlock
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g. Leibniz
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h. The Problem of the Rotating Star
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i Science, Power, and Magic
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j. The Pathos of Science and Spiritual Eunuchs
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Index
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