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Salvation and Sir Kenelm Digby’s philosophy of the soul

Niall Dilucia

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The English Catholic philosopher Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-1665) has enjoyed a recent spate of scholarly attention as a prodigious traveller, political figure, and man of diverse intellectual interests. This article contributes to this scholarship by assessing the commentary on salvation at the heart of Digby's philosophy of the soul and the historical contexts in which it was produced. It argues that Digby's thinking on the soul was a meditation on the worldly interactions a Catholic must undertake or avoid in order to achieve salvation. As such, our intellectual historical understanding of Digby is much improved when he is viewed as a scholar who constructed an identity as a thinker adept at advising others on the correct path to beatitude. This article also makes the broader argument for salvation as an important conceptual tool for early modern intellectual historians wishing to accurately map the complex relationship between theology, scholarly argument, and scholarly ambition in the seventeenth century.
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Niall Dilucia. Salvation and Sir Kenelm Digby’s philosophy of the soul. History of European Ideas, 2022, 49 (3), pp.506-522. ⟨10.1080/01916599.2022.2084635⟩. ⟨hal-04370697⟩
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