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17th-century English philosophers

The 17th century lasted from January 1, 1601 (MDCI), to December 31, 1700 (MDCC). It falls into the early modern period of Europe and in that continent (whose impact on the world was increasing) was characterized by the Baroque cultural movement, the latter part of the Spanish Golden Age, the Dutch Golden Age, the French Grand Siècle dominated by Louis XIV, the Scientific Revolution, the world's first public company and megacorporation known as the Dutch East India Company, and according to some historians, the General Crisis.

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Philosophy Science Ontologists English male poets Social philosophers Philosophers of mind Theorists on Western civilization Philosophers of history Writers about activism and social change Metaphysicians Philosophers of culture Philosophers of religion Philosophers of science Sonneteers Enlightenment philosophers Epistemologists Critics of the Catholic Church English essayists Writers about religion and science Philosophers of law 17th-century English male writers Christian humanists Philosophers of mathematics English male dramatists and playwrights Natural law ethicists 17th-century English poets Empiricists English non-fiction writers Epic poets Literacy and society theorists Philosophers of language 17th-century English dramatists and playwrights 17th-century English writers 17th-century writers in Latin Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Anglican poets Literary theorists People from the City of London British critics of religions British philosophers of education Christian poets English feminist writers, English feminists Irish Anglicans Male essayists Political realists Rhetoric theorists 18th-century English writers Discoverers of chemical elements English physicists English political philosophers English republicans English writers with disabilities Feminism and history Independent scientists Metaphor theorists Neoclassical writers Pseudonymous women writers Writers from London 17th-century Anglo-Irish people 18th-century British philosophers 18th-century English non-fiction writers 18th-century pseudonymous writers Anglican philosophers Blind writers British free speech activists Calvinist and Reformed poets English educational theorists English women activists English women non-fiction writers Mythopoeic writers Pamphleteers 17th-century English educators 17th-century English women writers 17th-century pseudonymous writers 18th-century English philosophers 18th-century English women writers Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge Anti-Catholicism in the United Kingdom Blind poets British critics of Christianity British philosophers of religion British women's rights activists Deaths from kidney failure in the United Kingdom English Anglican theologians English Dissenters English alchemists English rhetoricians English theologians Feminist studies scholars Fluid dynamicists Materialists People educated at Eton College Rhetoricians Thomas Hobbes

Hobbes

Melvyn Bragg discusses Thomas Hobbes, the great 17th century philosopher who famously said that ungoverned man lived a life that was ‘solitary, poor, brutish and short’.

1 December 2005

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Featuring: Quentin Skinner, David Wootton, Annabel Brett

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Philosophy Critics of the Catholic Church Philosophers of culture 17th-century writers in Latin Philosophers of mind 17th-century English writers Rhetoric theorists Philosophers of religion Materialists English political philosophers Philosophers of language British critics of Christianity Political realists Epistemologists British philosophers of education Philosophers of law Empiricists Metaphysicians British critics of religions Philosophers of mathematics 17th-century English male writers Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Theorists on Western civilization Philosophers of science Philosophers of history Thomas Hobbes Social philosophers Natural law ethicists English theologians 17th-century English philosophers English physicists Ontologists 17th century Language Mathematics Medicine Theology
Mary Astell

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosopher Mary Astell (1666 – 1731) who has been described as "the first English feminist".

5 November 2020

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Featuring: Hannah Dawson, Mark Goldie, Teresa Bejan

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Philosophy Feminist studies scholars 17th-century English writers 18th-century English women writers 17th-century pseudonymous writers British women's rights activists Feminism and history 18th-century English philosophers 18th-century British philosophers English feminist writers, English feminists 18th-century English non-fiction writers English women non-fiction writers English women activists 18th-century English writers 17th-century English women writers Pseudonymous women writers 17th-century English educators English educational theorists 18th-century pseudonymous writers 17th-century English philosophers English rhetoricians 17th century 18th century
Milton

Melvyn Bragg examines the literary and political career of the 17th century poet John Milton, examining work such as Paradise Lost as well as his role as propagandist during the English Civil War.

7 March 2002

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Featuring: John Carey, Lisa Jardine, Blair Worden

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Critics of the Catholic Church Christian humanists British free speech activists Neoclassical writers Rhetoricians 17th-century writers in Latin 17th-century English writers Mythopoeic writers Rhetoric theorists English Anglican theologians Literacy and society theorists Blind poets English political philosophers English essayists Epic poets 17th-century English poets English male dramatists and playwrights Metaphor theorists Writers about activism and social change Christian poets Sonneteers English male poets Calvinist and Reformed poets Deaths from kidney failure in the United Kingdom Anglican philosophers Anglican poets Blind writers Anti-Catholicism in the United Kingdom Male essayists Writers from London People from the City of London 17th-century English male writers English writers with disabilities English non-fiction writers Literary theorists British philosophers of religion English Dissenters Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge 17th-century English educators Enlightenment philosophers Social philosophers Pamphleteers English educational theorists 17th-century English philosophers 17th-century English dramatists and playwrights English theologians English republicans 17th century Theology
Robert Boyle

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of Robert Boyle, a pioneering scientist and one of the first Fellows of the Royal Society.

12 June 2014

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Featuring: Simon Schaffer, Michael Hunter, Anna Marie Roos

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Science 17th-century Anglo-Irish people Independent scientists Fluid dynamicists English alchemists Irish Anglicans Discoverers of chemical elements People educated at Eton College 17th-century English male writers 17th-century English writers Writers about religion and science 17th-century English philosophers English physicists Philosophers of science 17th century Ireland