Sean Silver, "The Mind Is a Collection: Case Studies in Eighteenth-Century Thought "
English | ISBN: 0812247264 | 2015 | 384 pages | PDF | 19 MB
English | ISBN: 0812247264 | 2015 | 384 pages | PDF | 19 MB
John Locke described the mind as a cabinet; Robert Hooke called it a repository; Joseph Addison imagined a drawer of medals. Each of these philosophers was an avid collector and curator of books, coins, and cultural artifacts. It is therefore no coincidence that when they wrote about the mental work of reason and imagination, they modeled their powers of intellect in terms of collecting, cataloging, and classification.
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