Of Fairies and Aerial Spirits: The Metaphysics of Robert Kirk's Secret Commonwealth
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0015587X.2024.2439745" target="_blank" >10.1080/0015587X.2024.2439745</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Of Fairies and Aerial Spirits: The Metaphysics of Robert Kirk's Secret Commonwealth
Original language description
This article attempts to uncover the metaphysical theories in the background of Robert Kirk's description of 'Subterraneans' in his Secret Commonwealth. In doing so, it shows that Kirk's Platonism seems directly derived from the philosophy of Henry More. Starting with a comparison between Kirk's and More's descriptions of the afterlife and the community of spirits, the article goes on to show how More's theory of aerial bodies provides an ideal framework for interpreting Kirk, by resolving the problem of how Subterraneans relate to angels and to dead souls. Beyond these structural similarities, it is also shown that Kirk works with specifically Morean notions and at times seems to echo his words. While a comparable level of structural similarity may be found between Kirk and Paracelsus, it is shown that the background metaphysics are very different in these two authors.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Folklore
ISSN
0015-587X
e-ISSN
1469-8315
Volume of the periodical
136
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
21
Pages from-to
270-290
UT code for WoS article
001501449400011
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105007229349