Sparks of reason
Ruben Buys · 2015
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Throughout the late Middle Ages and the early modern period, the Low Countries were home to a vibrant tradition of lay philosophy in Dutch. During this turbulent century, several authors, such as Dirck Volkertsz Coornhert (1522-1590) and Hendrik Laurensz Spiegel (1549-1612), developed an ethics which was founded on rationality and self-motivation. This 'vernacular rationalism' was a dynamic melting pot of classical philosophy, vernacular humanism, intellectual spiritualism and popular piety. Vernacular rationalism was rooted in an age-old Netherlandish tradition and was to become one of the breeding grounds for the early Enlightenment in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic. Its point of departure was the inherent goodness of humankind and the possibility of moral growth through rational knowledge. Its goal was perfect happiness.
Book details
- Year
- 2015
- Language
- English
- Series
- Bibliotheca dissidentium Neerlandicorum
- Publisher
- Verloren
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 304
- ISBN
- 9789087045159
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