Coleridge and scepticism
"Coleridge tended to view objects in the natural world as if they were capable of articulating truths about his own poetic psyche. He also regarded such objects as if they were capable of illustrating and embodying truths about a transcendent spiritual realm. After 1805, he posited a series of analogical 'likenesses' connecting the rational principles that inform human cognition with the rational principles that he believed informed the teleological structure of the natural world. Human reason and the principle of rationality realised objectively in Nature were both regarded as finite effects of God's seminal Word. Although Coleridge intuitively felt that nature had been constructed as a 'mirror' of the human mind, and that both mind and nature were 'mirrors' of a transcendent spiritual realm, he never found an explanation of such experiences that was fully immune to his own sceptical doubts." "Coleridge and Scepticism examines the nature of these doubts, and offers a new explanatory account of why Coleridge was unable to affirm his religious intuitions."--BOOK JACKET
viii, 229 pages ; 23 cm
9780199290253, 9780191710483, 0199290253, 0191710482
144596121
Theological voluntarism and Protestant critiques of natural reason
Hume's "fork" : scepticism and natural religion
"That uncertain heaven" : Coleridge's poetry and prose 1795 to 1805
Between flesh and spirit : Coleridge's prose writings 1815 to 1825
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