Jonathan Edwards' Philosophy of Nature: The Re-enchantment of the World in the Age of Scientific Reasoning

Abstract

Jonathan Edwards’s Philosophy of Nature: The Re-enchantment of the World in the Age of Scientific Reasoning analyses the works of Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) on natural philosophy in a series of contexts within which they may best be explored and understood. Edwards was an important early modern philosopher who developed a singular philosophy of nature, a unique view regarding the essential nature of reality, entitling him to a distinguished place among early modern philosophers who reacted against the metaphysical and theological implications that often accompanied the appearance of new modes of scientific thought and imagination from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries.