John Sergeant and His Circle: A Study of Three Seventeenth-Century English Aristotelians

About the Author Dorothea Krook (1920-1989) taught at the Universities of Cambridge, Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv; and in 1974 she became the first woman to be elected to membership of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Publications include Three Traditions of Moral Thought (Cambridge, 1959).Beverley Southgate teaches History of Ideas at the University of Hertfordshire, and has recently published "Covetous of Truth": the Life and Work of Thomas White, 1593-1676. Product Description An account of the essentially Aristotelian philosophy of John Sergeant (1623-1707) and his Blackloist colleagues, Kenelm Digby and Thomas White. Sergeant and his circle were concerned to present a theology and philosophy immune to sceptical doubts; and, though hitherto neglected, they exemplify an important aspect of seventeenth-century thought.