Ideas of Creation in the Writings of Richard Overton the Leveller and Paradise Lost
Ideas of Creation in the Writings of Richard Overton the Leveller and Paradise Lost
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《平等者理查德·奥弗顿》和《失乐园》著作中的创造思想
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10.1353/jhi.2005.0028
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2005
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0.6
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N. McDowell
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N. McDowell
历史学家对平等主义关于自然权利、平等和民主的理论的起源一直存在分歧。本文介绍了理查德·奥弗顿在其前平等主义者的著作《人的死亡》（1643/44）中概述的一元论自然哲学，并论证了他的异端创造观如何为他关于主体自由的政治思想提供了形而上学基础。比较和对比是与密封的理想主义的亨利和托马斯沃恩和精神唯物主义的杰拉德温斯坦利。然而，同时代人之间最具启发性的比较，可以在米尔顿在《失乐园》（1667）中对宇宙的诗意想象中找到。
Historians have been divided about the origins of Leveller theories concerning natural rights, equality, and democracy. This article gives an account of the monistic natural philosophy outlined by Richard Overton in his pre-Leveller work Mans Mortalitie (1643/44) and demonstrates how his heretical conception of creation provided a metaphysical foundation for his political ideas about the liberty of the subject. Comparisons and contrasts are made with the hermetic idealism of Henry and Thomas Vaughan and the spiritual materialism of Gerrard Winstanley. The most illuminating comparison amongst contemporaries, however, is found in Milton's poetic vision of the cosmos in Paradise Lost (1667).