Georgics of the Mind. Cultivation of the Self as Agriculture in the Early Modern Age

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.46854/fc.2025.1s.16" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.46854/fc.2025.1s.16</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.46854/fc.2025.1s.16" target="_blank" >10.46854/fc.2025.1s.16</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Georgics of the Mind. Cultivation of the Self as Agriculture in the Early Modern Age

Original language description

In this essay I explore the metaphorology of the cultivation of the mind in the early modern period, with special regard to the image of the “georgics of the mind”. To this end, I first intend to briefly go over the ancient background of the soul as a soil to till, with a focus on Cicero’s image of “cultura animi” and Philo of Alexandria’s use of “ψυχῆς γεωργική”. I then turn to Bacon, who regards the georgics of the mind as a fundamental part of ethics, and analyse how the idea of “georgics of the mind” was received in the German lands in the late 17th century (Placcius, Wesenfeld, Pufendorf), up to Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten. In Baumgarten, the “georgics of the mind” constitutes the subjective precondition for the emergence of a body of arts and sciences (the encyclopaedia), which in turn is conceived as a horizontal map of fields to be cultivated within the territory of erudition. In this way, the georgics of the mind helps lay the groundwork for the modern conception of culture as a collective endeavour.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - 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

Project

<a href="/en/project/LL2320" target="_blank" >LL2320: The Origins of Modern Encyclopaedism: Launching Evolutionary Metaphorology</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Filosofický časopis

ISSN

0015-1831

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

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Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

16-34

UT code for WoS article

001651309100002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105030170775