Disciplined Intelligence
Critical Inquiry and Canadian Thought in the Victorian Era
1st Edition
Published on 19. October 2001
287 pages
978-0-7735-6892-1 (ISBN)
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This highly original contribution to Canadian intellectual history examines the course of critical inquiry and its relationship to the assertion of moral authority in English-Canadian thought during the Victorian era.
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Teaches in the Department of History at Carleton University.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction to the Carleton Library Edition
- 1. Education and Intellect
- Intellectual Anarchy
- The Institutionalization of Concern
- Education as Disposition
- The Basis of a Liberal Education
- 2. The Colonial Philosophers
- The Scottish Legacy
- James George and the Web of Gossamer
- William Lyall: Intellect, the Emotions, and Man's Moral Nature
- The Apogee of Common Sense
- 3. The Uses of Natural Theology
- The Prevalence of Paley
- James Beaven and the Eye of Faith
- Dr. Bovell's Quadrilateral Mind
- Sequela
- 4. The Veils of Isis
- The Veils of Isis
- The Reception of Darwin in Canada
- Support from the Flanks
- Christian Guardians
- Man's Place in Nature
- 5. A Critical Spirit
- The Spectre of Doubt
- The Critical Intellect
- Freedom and Concern
- Science, Ethics, and Evolution
- A Defence of Modern Thought
- 6. The Secret of Hegel
- The Rejection of Common Sense
- John Watson and the Secret of Hegel
- Science and the Idealist Alternative
- Conscience and Community
- 7. The Sadness and Joy of Knowledge
- Faith through Reason
- Pastoral Epistles
- The Sacred, the Secular, and the Social Gospel
- Religion through Sociology
- Epilogue
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- A Bibliographical Note
- A Bibliographical Note, 2001
- Index
