Read Flesh in the Age of Reason Online
Authors: Roy Porter
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Gilman, James
409
Glanvill, Joseph
87
–9,
91
,
92
,
124
,
187
A Blow at Modern Sadducism
(1688)
89
Philosophia Pia
(1671)
88
Plus Ultra
(1668)
87
–8
Saducisimus Triumphatis
(1681)
88
Vanity of Dogmatizing, The
(1661)
87
Glorious Revolution (1688)
21
,
113
,
130
gluttony
see
eating, excessive
Gnostics
36
Godwin, Mary
420
Godwin, William
8
,
285
,
405
,
419
,
424
anarchism
421
atheism
420
–21
body/mind relationship
424
,
425
–6,
426
,
427
–8,
429
,
431
Caleb Williams
(1794)
256
,
420
,
424
challenged
430
Enquiry concerning Political Justice, An
(1793)
284
,
420
,
421
,
424
health regimen
426
individualism
369
,
392
–3,
397
,
433
materialism
472
politicization
420
social organization
421
–3
and Mary Wollstonecraft
420
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
Faust
(1808–32)
11
Wilhelm Meister
(1796)
9
Goldsmith, Oliver
189
gout
239
Graham, James
234
Grand Trunk Canal
377
Gray, Thomas,
Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard
(1751)
198
–9
Greece/Greek
see
Classical Greece
Habeas Corpus
414
Hales, Stephen
349
Halford, Henry
223
Halifax, Viscount,
Advice to a Daughter
(1688)
262
Hallaran, William
313
Haller, Albrecht von
308
Harley, Lady Brilliana
233
Harley, Ned
233
Harrington, James
131
Hartley, David
279
,
349
–60,
350
–51
Conjecturae Quaedam
(1746)
349
death & afterlife
358
–9
domestic arrangements
348
–9
early years
348
emotions, theory of
352
–5
God, idea of
355
–8
learning, theory of
350
,
351
–2,
352
–3,
355
,
383
,
426
motivation/voluntarism
425
parodied
466
Progress of Happiness, The
349
Hays, Mary,
Emma Courtney
(1796)
283
–5
sexual materialism
431
Spirit of the Age, The
(1825)
470
health
care/regimens
229
,
230
–32,
234
–5,
402
,
426
movements
239
routines diarised
232
–3
heaven & hell
see
eschatology, afterlife
Heaven our Home
105
Heberden, William
317
Helena & Judith (Siamese twins)
164
Helmont, Joannes Baptista van
53
–4
Helvétius, Claude-Adrien
393
,
419
Henry, Philip
212
–13
Herder, Johann Gottfried
8
Hill, Christopher
82
determinism
366
Devil quoting Scripture
470
Hobbesian man
116
,
127
,
131
,
142
,
146
–7,
177
,
272
,
285
materialism
84
–5
religious views
306
see also
identity/self; soul
Hogarth, William
25
,
174
,
278
,
300
,
381
‘Four Stages of Cruelty’
224
Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry d’
419
Hölderlin, Johann Christian Friedrich
10
Holdsworth, Winch
96
Hood, Thomas, ‘Mary’s Ghost: A Pathetic Ballad’
224
–6
Horatius
281
hospital movement
214
Howard, Lady Lucy
232
hubris
30
Hugh of St Victor
227
causality
398
challenged
410
ideas, association of
312
Johnson on
185
on suicide
225
Treatise of Human Nature
(1739)
370
Huygens, Christiaan
51
hysteria
401
–2
iatrochemistry
53
–4
identity/self
3
–4,
7
,
63
,
133
,
134
–5,
136
–7,
165
,
257
,
345
aesthetics of
246
–7
afterlife
21
annihilation/denial
4
appearance and
244
awareness/consciousness of
6
–7,
26
,
31
,
44
–5,
94
,
108
,
133
,
134
–5,
136
–7,
164
Cartesian
372
concept challenged
14
–15
confession and
8
–9
contingent
369
development of
11
disguising
251
–4
elevation
108
Enlightenment
146
–7
erosion of
16
exposure
285
immortality
207
imperfections
193
integrity
166
interest
142
–4
Locke on
94
,
102
,
136
,
137
,
162
,
164
,
165
,
166
,
253
,
304
,
369
,
370
,
371
,
372
mechanistic view
374
–5
naturalization/secularization
17
–18,
464
,
469
,
471
,
473
possession
255
Priestley on
369
Reformation & Renaissance
5
–6
representation of
250
–51
repression, dangers of
146
self-interest
142
sexuality and
12
shifting philosophies
225
–6,
469
signatures, doctrine of
249
social
469
Swift on
151
unconscious
11
–12
undermined
13
–14
uniformity
433
unity
361
Western mythology
12
–13
see also
individual/individualism
Iliad
29
immateriality/materiality
80
imprinting, doctrine of
246
autonomy
11
concept, emergence of
30
consciousness
4
enlightened
9
–10
foundation
6
–7
liberal
130
Protestant
6
Romantic
10
sovereignty
16
–17
subjective
12
see also
identity/self