A Renaissance of Reason: Ireland's Philosophical Roots Uncovered

New findings show William Molyneux helped bring Enlightenment ideas to Ireland, challenging old views of its intellectual history.

#IrishPhilosophy, #WilliamMolyneux, #Enlightenment, #TrinityCollege, #DublinHistory

https://newsletter.tf/ireland-molyneux-enlightenment-ideas-dublin/

Ireland's Philosophical Past: Molyneux's Enlightenment Role Revealed

New findings show William Molyneux helped bring Enlightenment ideas to Ireland, challenging old views of its intellectual history.

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Recent research highlights William Molyneux's key role in Ireland's intellectual history, showing a stronger connection to European Enlightenment ideas than previously thought.

#IrishPhilosophy, #WilliamMolyneux, #Enlightenment, #TrinityCollege, #DublinHistory
https://newsletter.tf/ireland-molyneux-enlightenment-ideas-dublin/

Ireland's Philosophical Past: Molyneux's Enlightenment Role Revealed

New findings show William Molyneux helped bring Enlightenment ideas to Ireland, challenging old views of its intellectual history.

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Philosophia

Clare Marie Moriarty reflects on philosophy and motherhood in a tribute to Professor Maria Rosa Antognazza.

https://philosophersmag.com/philosophia/

#IrishPhilosophy

I've an article in the #IrishPhilosophy edition of #PhilosophyNow. https://philosophynow.org/issues/160

For readers of that, or anyone new to the blog, there's a new introductory post to help people find their way about the blog.

https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2024/02/06/irish-philosophy-meets-philosophy-now/

Fáilte!

Issue 160 | Philosophy Now

Issue 160 contents

From the revamped blog:

Adomnán and the Law of the Innocent

https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2021/04/02/adomnan/

#IrishPhilosophy #Adomnan

#SilentSunday #IrishPhilosophy

A stained glass window in memory of #OliverGoldsmith, depicting one of the characters from "The Deserted Village", the devoted clergyman. From
St Munis CoI, #Forgney Co. Longford, which lies south of #NewcastleWood.

Goldsmith is believed to have been born in the townland of #Pallas, just north of Newcastle Wood (best know as the home of #CenterParcsLongford).

The poem: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44292/the-deserted-village

Link to the original image https://www.gloine.ie/search/window/14994/w03?i=1

The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith | Poetry Foundation

Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain,

Poetry Foundation

"In practice the text of #Lucretius rests upon two Leiden manuscripts [...] The older and better is O (Voss. Lat. F. 30)Offsite Link. It was written not long after 800 in the Palace School of Charlemagne. A contemporary corrector, using a distinctive insular hand, emended the text and in places filled up lacunae left by the orignal scribe. This hand has been recognized as that of Dungal" https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=3217

More on the Irish scholar Dúngal https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2016/06/26/dungal/

#history #IrishPhilosophy

The Codex Vossianus Oblongus: Earliest & Best Surviving Text of Lucretius's De rerum natura : History of Information

The Codex Vossianus Oblongus: Earliest & Best Surviving Text of Lucretius's De rerum natura

One of #DIBs featured bios today is scholar Dorothy Moore https://www.dib.ie/biography/moore-dorothy-nee-king-other-married-name-dury-a10294

(The others are also 17th century women:
Boyle, Margaret (1623 - 1689)
Boyle, Elizabeth (1613 - 1691)
Barry, Alice (1608 - 1667)
Pulter, Lady Hester (1605 - 1678)
https://www.dib.ie/ )

#DorothyMoore #IrishPhilosophy

Moore, Dorothy (née King; other married name Dury) | Dictionary of Irish Biography

@rmathematicus review of Michelle DiMeo's book "Lady Ranelagh: The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyle’s Sister".

Not just an elder sister: https://wp.me/py7Pg-23G

#LadyRanelagh #IrishPhilosophy

Not just an elder sister

The Renaissance Mathematicus