Sophie Oliver, ‘Sacred and (Sub)human Pain’, Facebook Beheadings…
BLOG HOME While this post is mainly on the topic of modern perceptions of suffering, it is perhaps of relevance to early modernists as an example of how perceptions and values change over time, and the difficulties of approaching a culture whose moral and ethical compass may differ substantially from our own. Thoughts arising from […]
Seventeenth-century tidbits #3: Rude Boys and nudity in Seventeenth-Century England
BLOG HOME Far from originating in the Jamaican ska scene of the 1960s, rude boys (and girls) were flourishing in the seventeenth century, gaining particular note for their attacks on Quakers, to the extent that George Foxe recommended ‘that some Friends be appointed at every Meeting to keep the Doors, to keep down rude Boys […]
The Early Modern View of Evil
BLOG HOME I’d like in this post to ruminate a bit on some points raised in a couple of papers on early modern thinking on the nature of evil by Samuel Newlands. The papers are: Leibniz on Privations, Limitations, and the Metaphysics of Evil (henceforth ‘Leibnitz’) Evils, Privations, and the Early Moderns (henceforth ‘Evils’) A […]