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

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Výsledek na webu

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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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/LL2320" target="_blank" >LL2320: Počátky novověkého encyklopedismu: Spuštění evoluční metaforologie</a><br>

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Filosofický časopis

ISSN

0015-1831

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

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Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

19

Strana od-do

16-34

Kód UT WoS článku

001651309100002

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-105030170775