#anne conway

[adocentyn]

Lady Anne Conway - Early Theosophy and Kabbalah vs Mechanism, Atheism and Pantheism

Brilliant introduction by Dr Justin Sledge

[boehmeskitchen]

Anne Conway by Samuel van Hoogstraten (detail)

"Seeing God was of all the most exceeding great and infinite Light, and yet the chiefest Good: For this Reason he would make Creatures to whom he might communicate himself: But these could in no wise bear the exceeding greatness of his Light: And hereunto belong those Scripture sayings, God dwelleth in an inapproachable Light. No Man hath seen God at any Time, etc.

"He diminished therefore (for the sake of his Creatures) the highest Degree of his most intense Light, that there might be room for his Creatures, from whence Place immediately arose, as it were a certain Circular Vacuity or Space of Worlds. 

"This Vacuum was not a mere Privation or Non ens, but a certain real Position of Light, diminutively, which was the Soul of the Messiah, called by the Hebrews, Adam Kadmon, which filled all that whole Space."

From Anne Conway's The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy, first published 1690.

[jerseydeanne]

I am speechless

“BOB MUELLER COULD FACE INDICTMENTS AND JAIL TIME OVER THESE NEWLY DECLASSIFIED FBI DOCUMENTS!”

  http://gty.im/1157002268

Maybe they should toss one Schumer way for obstruction of justice!

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Good Article, worth the read. How on earth…

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[im-okay-unless-im-not]

studying the history of philosophy and science is dangerous because one moment you'll be wondering where all the women are, and the next you'll be crying over women who died centuries, even millenia ago

[bocadosdefilosofia]

«Ahora hemos de preguntamos por qué el espíritu o alma se ve afectada por los dolores del cuerpo. Si, aun estando unida al cuerpo, nada tiene de corporeidad o naturaleza corpórea, ¿por qué, al ser herido el cuerpo, es herida y se duele también el alma que, se supone, es de una naturaleza completamente distinta? Si tan fácilmente penetra el cuerpo, ¿cómo es que una cosa corpórea la puede dañar? Si se responde que es el cuerpo, y no el alma, quien siente el dolor, esto es contrario a los principios de nuestros oponentes, pues sostienen que el cuerpo carece de vida y de percepción. Si, por el contrario, se admite que el alma es de la misma naturaleza y sustancia que el cuerpo, aunque exceda a éste en muchos grados en vida y espiritualidad lo mismo que en velocidad de movimiento y penetrabilidad y en otras varias perfecciones, entonces se desvanecen todas las mencionadas dificultades, y se comprende fácilmente cómo el alma y el cuerpo están unidos entre sí, cómo el alma mueve al cuerpo y sufre con él y a través de él.»

Anne Conway: «Principia Philosophiae Antiquissimae et Recentissimae», en La filosofía de Lady Anne Conway, un proto-Leibniz (Bernardino Orio de Miguel, ed.). Editorial UPV, pág. 2004. Valencia, 2004.

TGO

@bocadosdefilosofia

@dias-de-la-ira-1

[hartshorn-and-isinglass]

Divination and Kabbalah, in my colonial New England? It's more likely than you think:

I was not expecting that link between Lurianic Kabbalah and American exceptionalism via Shabbetai Zevi. That sounds like a helluva rabbit hole to go down. Fun to see so many big names of 17th century religious life feature in this web of Kabbalah and Puritan apocalypticism.

[historyofwomenphilosophers-blog]

Update: New Articles in the ECC! Browse the ECC here: https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/ecc/#hwps and have a look at the new articles by Sarah Huttton on Substance and Perfectibility in Anne Conway!

[historyofwomenphilosophers-blog]

Conference “Women and Early Modern Philosophy & Science” in Vercelli, co-sponsored by the Center for the “History of Women Philosophers and Scientists”:

Sarah Hutton gives her talk on Platonism in Anne Conway.