Robert A Greene
Biographic Data
| ID | 1673555 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert A Greene |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert A |
| FAMILY NAME | Greene |
| SIGNATURE | GREENE R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Boston |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1940 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Thomas Hobbes: The eternal law, the eternal word, and the eternity of the law of nature
The predication of the eternal law served as premise and and foundation for the existence of the law of nature in the classical/medieval intellectual inheritance of Thomas Hobbes and his contemporaries. Unlike them, he makes no mention of the eternal law in his early writings, The Elements of Law Natural and Politic, and On the Citizen. His triple use of the expression eternal law of God in Leviathan is ambiguous and misleading. Instead , he is o…
Thomas Hobbes and the Term ‘Right Reason’: Participation to Calculation
Three times between 1640 and 1651, once at considerable length, Hobbes used and accepted, and then mocked, repudiated and discarded, the ancient/medieval term recta ratio/right reason. These repeated fluctuations in his thinking and rhetorical strategy occurred during the writing of his three major treatises on moral and political theory, one additional note on the term in De Cive, and an unpublished commentary on Thomas White's De Mundo. They ar…
The origin, definition, assimilation and endurance of instinctu naturae in Natural Law Parlance—From Isidore and Ulpian to Hobbes and Locke
This essay identifies the source, and traces both the subsequent use and the changing definition, of the expression instinctu naturae in the early history of natural law discourse. It also examines the later assimilation and endurance of the expression in English, as well as the efforts of Hobbes to proscribe the use, and Locke to limit the meaning, of the term instinct. Initially serving simply to predicate a divine stimulus as the source of hum…
Instinct of Nature: Natural Law, Synderesis, and the Moral Sense
Instinct of Nature: Natural Law, Synderesis, and the Moral Sense Robert A. Greene "Instinct is a great matter." —Sir John Falstaff This essay traces the evolution of the meaning of the expression instinctus naturae in the discussion of the natural law from Justinian's Digest through its association with synderesis to Francis Hutcheson's theory of the moral sense. The introduction of instinctus naturae into Ulpian's definition of the natural law b…
Whichcote, the Candle of the Lord, and Synderesis
The text from Proverbs which teaches that spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the innermost parts of the belly has been associated with the rational theology of the Cambridge Platonists and specifically with Benjamin Whichcote's view of reason since Tulloch's survey in 1872. It has served, somewhat inappropriately, as the title of a book on the Platonists and has been regularly cited in scholarly discussion to express the kind …
Synderesis, the Spark of Conscience, in the English Renaissance
It is a remarkable fact that Jerome's single citation of a Greek word in his commentary in the year 415 on Ezekiel's inaugural vision led to a medieval transformation and redefinition of the European idea of conscience that would endure until the late seventeenth century. Although it has been argued that his reference to synteresis (later transliterated into Latin and English as synderesis or synteresis) was simply a scribal error, it is also pos…
Whichcote, Wilkins, "Ingenuity," and the Reasonableness of Christianity
An Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature
Composed in a period of religious and political upheaval, Culverwell's Discourse of the Light of Nature is an imaginative statement of the teachings of Christian humanism concerning the nature and limits of human reason and the related concepts of natural and divine law. The lengthy introduction to this new critical edition throws light on the evolution of English rationalism in the seventeenth century, and the annotation establishes for the firs…
An Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature
Mulcaster is the champion of talent, the vernacular, the education of girls; a defender of public schools, of conferences between teachers, parents and neighbours, of teacher train- ing in the universities, and a host of other progressive causes.All this is nice to read about again, but beyond that what can one say?The question keeps recurring: is it really worthwhile to truncate a moderately sized book of interest to a reasonably sophisticated c…
Henry More and Robert Boyle on the Spirit of Nature
The idea of an immaterial, imperceptive, and non-rational organizer of inert matter, a so-called Spirit of Nature, underwent an interesting, if relatively limited, revival in England during the second half of the XVIIth century.1 The origin of this idea, which existed in numerous allotropic forms, may be discovered primarily in Neoplatonic thought (although the influence of the Aristotelian theory of substantial form with its attendant teleology …
“Ropiness” in Tea Caused by Aerobacter aerogenes in a Water Supply
“Ropiness” in Tea Caused by Aerobacter aerogenes in a Water Supply Robert A. Greene, Emma Judd, and George W. Marx CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.30.6.680 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Henry More and Robert Boyle on the Spirit of Nature
The idea of an immaterial, imperceptive, and non-rational organizer of inert matter, a so-called Spirit of Nature, underwent an interesting, if relatively limited, revival in England during the second half of the XVIIth century.1 The origin of this idea, which existed in numerous allotropic forms, may be discovered primarily in Neoplatonic thought (although the influence of the Aristotelian theory of substantial form with its attendant teleology …
Synderesis, the Spark of Conscience, in the English Renaissance
It is a remarkable fact that Jerome's single citation of a Greek word in his commentary in the year 415 on Ezekiel's inaugural vision led to a medieval transformation and redefinition of the European idea of conscience that would endure until the late seventeenth century. Although it has been argued that his reference to synteresis (later transliterated into Latin and English as synderesis or synteresis) was simply a scribal error, it is also pos…
Thomas Hobbes and the Term ‘Right Reason’: Participation to Calculation
Three times between 1640 and 1651, once at considerable length, Hobbes used and accepted, and then mocked, repudiated and discarded, the ancient/medieval term recta ratio/right reason. These repeated fluctuations in his thinking and rhetorical strategy occurred during the writing of his three major treatises on moral and political theory, one additional note on the term in De Cive, and an unpublished commentary on Thomas White's De Mundo. They ar…
Whichcote, Wilkins, "Ingenuity," and the Reasonableness of Christianity
“Ropiness” in Tea Caused by Aerobacter aerogenes in a Water Supply
“Ropiness” in Tea Caused by Aerobacter aerogenes in a Water Supply Robert A. Greene, Emma Judd, and George W. Marx CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.30.6.680 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Henry More and Robert Boyle on the Spirit of Nature
The idea of an immaterial, imperceptive, and non-rational organizer of inert matter, a so-called Spirit of Nature, underwent an interesting, if relatively limited, revival in England during the second half of the XVIIth century.1 The origin of this idea, which existed in numerous allotropic forms, may be discovered primarily in Neoplatonic thought (although the influence of the Aristotelian theory of substantial form with its attendant teleology …
An Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature
Mulcaster is the champion of talent, the vernacular, the education of girls; a defender of public schools, of conferences between teachers, parents and neighbours, of teacher train- ing in the universities, and a host of other progressive causes.All this is nice to read about again, but beyond that what can one say?The question keeps recurring: is it really worthwhile to truncate a moderately sized book of interest to a reasonably sophisticated c…
An Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature
Composed in a period of religious and political upheaval, Culverwell's Discourse of the Light of Nature is an imaginative statement of the teachings of Christian humanism concerning the nature and limits of human reason and the related concepts of natural and divine law. The lengthy introduction to this new critical edition throws light on the evolution of English rationalism in the seventeenth century, and the annotation establishes for the firs…
Whichcote, Wilkins, "Ingenuity," and the Reasonableness of Christianity
Whichcote, the Candle of the Lord, and Synderesis
The text from Proverbs which teaches that spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the innermost parts of the belly has been associated with the rational theology of the Cambridge Platonists and specifically with Benjamin Whichcote's view of reason since Tulloch's survey in 1872. It has served, somewhat inappropriately, as the title of a book on the Platonists and has been regularly cited in scholarly discussion to express the kind …
Synderesis, the Spark of Conscience, in the English Renaissance
It is a remarkable fact that Jerome's single citation of a Greek word in his commentary in the year 415 on Ezekiel's inaugural vision led to a medieval transformation and redefinition of the European idea of conscience that would endure until the late seventeenth century. Although it has been argued that his reference to synteresis (later transliterated into Latin and English as synderesis or synteresis) was simply a scribal error, it is also pos…
Instinct of Nature: Natural Law, Synderesis, and the Moral Sense
Instinct of Nature: Natural Law, Synderesis, and the Moral Sense Robert A. Greene "Instinct is a great matter." —Sir John Falstaff This essay traces the evolution of the meaning of the expression instinctus naturae in the discussion of the natural law from Justinian's Digest through its association with synderesis to Francis Hutcheson's theory of the moral sense. The introduction of instinctus naturae into Ulpian's definition of the natural law b…
The origin, definition, assimilation and endurance of instinctu naturae in Natural Law Parlance—From Isidore and Ulpian to Hobbes and Locke
This essay identifies the source, and traces both the subsequent use and the changing definition, of the expression instinctu naturae in the early history of natural law discourse. It also examines the later assimilation and endurance of the expression in English, as well as the efforts of Hobbes to proscribe the use, and Locke to limit the meaning, of the term instinct. Initially serving simply to predicate a divine stimulus as the source of hum…
Thomas Hobbes and the Term ‘Right Reason’: Participation to Calculation
Three times between 1640 and 1651, once at considerable length, Hobbes used and accepted, and then mocked, repudiated and discarded, the ancient/medieval term recta ratio/right reason. These repeated fluctuations in his thinking and rhetorical strategy occurred during the writing of his three major treatises on moral and political theory, one additional note on the term in De Cive, and an unpublished commentary on Thomas White's De Mundo. They ar…
Thomas Hobbes: The eternal law, the eternal word, and the eternity of the law of nature
The predication of the eternal law served as premise and and foundation for the existence of the law of nature in the classical/medieval intellectual inheritance of Thomas Hobbes and his contemporaries. Unlike them, he makes no mention of the eternal law in his early writings, The Elements of Law Natural and Politic, and On the Citizen. His triple use of the expression eternal law of God in Leviathan is ambiguous and misleading. Instead , he is o…
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