The kingdom of darkness : Bayle, Newton, and the emancipation of the European mind from philosophy /
Levitin, Dmitri,author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
General prologue: A study in the history of knowledge -- Prolegomena : giving up philosophy -- Emancipating natural philosophy from metaphysics -- Emancipating theology from philosophy -- Reconstructing the pagan mind in seventeenth-century Europe : a historico-philosophical critique of pure reason -- Prolegomena : Pierre Bayle : a life in the republic of letters at the turn of the eighteenth century (1700) -- Greece, Asia, and the logic of paganism -- The Manichean articles and the 'sponge of all religions' -- Theological method and the foundations of Protestant faith -- Virtuous atheism, philosophic sin, and toleration -- Prolegomena. The formation of Newton's natural-philosophical project, 1664-1687 -- After the Principia. Justifying a science of properties and the invention of 'Newtonianism' -- The queries to the Optice (1706) : an intelligent God, the divine sensorium, and the development of an anti-metaphysical natural theology -- The general scholium : a non-metaphysical physics -- Newton's kingdom of darkness complete.
Bayle, Pierre, 1647-1706.
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.
Knowledge, Theory of
Philosophy, European
Physics