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Mónica García-Salmones Rovira
Mónica García-Salmones Rovira
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The Necessity of Nature
God, Science and Money in 17th Century English Law of Nature
 , pp. 428 - 461
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Index

absolutism, 25
absolutist project, 66
abundance
theology of, 166, 177, 180
accommodations, 199
accumulation
mere, 299
accumulator
selfishness of, 90
act
necessary, 154
virtuous. See agent intellect
Act Against Usury 1571, 339
action, 96
Adam, 164
hereditary kingdom, 37
adiaphora, 244
advantage, 160
agent intellect, 46, 147–152
divine particle, 149
enables knowledge, 150
free, 150
light, 35, 147
agreement
on shares, 386
al Ṭūsī Naṣīr al Dīn
The Nasirean Ethics, 302
alchemists, 109
alchemy, 106, 168, See Worsley
America, 329
Ames William, 297
Amsterdam, 114
ancilla theologiae, philosophy, 111
Anglican Church
matters indifferent, 245
Anglicanism
order and public peace, 138
animals
concord, 231
limited to necessaries, 199
annihilatio mundi, 72, 74, 168
Anthropocene, xi, 1, 2, 12
anthropology
anthropological theory, 45
commercial, 293
economic, 298
of struggle, 177
of unlimited desires, 194
theological, 186
anti-intellectualist position
in moral law, 182
anti-slavery manifesto, 398
antisocial, 89, 90
Appleby Joyce Oldham, 358
Aquinas Thomas, 2, 6, 10, 23, 58, 110, 147, 164, 229, 265
‘five ways’. See Hobbes
case of the prisoner, 397
De potentia Dei, 79, 317
shadow of, 46
Summa theologiae, 45, 59, 110, 191
theology of use, 191–194
Arabic philosophy, 58, 65
al-Fārābī, 61
Ash ʿarites, 61
Māturidītes’, 61
Mu ʿtazilites, 61
separate intellect, 68
supralunar giver of forms, 68
arbitrary will, 409
arbitrator, 302
laws of nature, 88
Aristotelian, 65, 232, 236, 243, 275
communitarian position, 335
condemnation of usury, 295
curriculum, 276
heart-centered microcosm, 284
Sennert, 280
Aristotelianism, 215
Aristotelian-Thomism, 319
Aristotle, 5, 39, 41, 111, 138, 139, 147, 164, 275, 293, 309
17th century England, 349
aporie or perplexity, 258
De anima, 11, 23, 148, 151
economic theory, 299–301
exchange, 300
Nichomachean Ethics, 300, 301, 366, 405
Politics, 193, 292, 299, 337
Politics and Ethics, 296
politics and money, 300
soul informing body, 275
Arminian
royalist, 55
Arminianism, 51, 141
Arminians, 164
Ashley Lord, 329–332, 349
1st Earl of Shaftesbury, 328
economic education of Locke, 329
fall from grace, 331
statesman, 331
surgery, 329
atheist, 26, 71, 100
no morality, 393
atomism, xi, 27, 112, 166, 172, 175, 179, 183, 314
atomization of Monarchy, 38
Boyle’s Atomical Hypothesis, 240
Epicurean, 54, 189
Galen critique of, 285
infinite divisibility. See Hobbes
materialist, 215
Sennert, 280
Augustine, 287
Augustinian, 19, 28
authority, 154
legitimate, 157
Averroes, 36, 149
separate intellect, 149
Avicenna, 11, 36, 53, 58, 60–63, 66, 67, 70, 103, 168, 275, 279
Avicennean, 81
De anima’s Commentary, 273, 275
difference, 307
existential necessitarianism, 63
household management, 298
Ibn-Sīnā, 53
intellectualism, 302
Kitâb Al-siyâsa, 301, 302
Metaphysics, 62
moral custom, 306
mutual needs, 310
nature, 67
needs and politics, 306–312
separation of politics and religion, 311
supply and needs, 310
The Cure, 73
The Metaphysics of “The Healing”, 71, 302
universal, 60
Bacon Francis, 110, 111, 334
Bagshaw Edward, 245
The Great Question Concerning Things Indifferent in Religious Worship, 245
Bañez Domingo Dominican, 142
Bank of England, 360
Barbados, 42, 169, 201, 202, 330
barbarous and rude peoples, 266
Barbeyrac Jean, 33
Science of Morality, 257
Barbon Nicholas, 365
barter, 304
benefit, 88, 89
Bible, 111, 114, 148, 178, 180, 190, 251, 287
De Cive, 97
investigation of, 78
Biblical reference
illumination of light of reason, 148
Bishop Laud, 36
Blaise Armengaud, 292
Board of Trade, 328, 332, 381
Bodin Jean, 35, 42, 179
Five Books of the Republic, 42
body, 50, 89, 91, See Hobbes
agent intellect, 149
animal, 185
Aretology, 185
disorganization of, 213
exists in itself, 66
government of, 87
Hobbes’s interest, 71
human. See Boyle
magnitude, 66
not spiritual. See Hobbes
particular motion, 182
of the sovereign, 94
organs of the human, 290
penetrate by the rational, 151
physical, 53
pleasures of, 185
right to another’s, 88
Bologna, 294
Bolognese jurists, 294
Booke of Conscience, 119
Booke of Nature, 119
Booke of Scripture, 119
bound
to law, 159
to oneself and the country, 159
Boyle Robert, 5, 7, 19, 24, 45, 106, 107, 118–121, 125, 153, 162, 282, 287, 310, 314, 365, 384, 385, 392
A Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Receiv’d Notion of Nature, 178, 206, 217, 233
abundance, 270
Aretology, 184
avant garde economic approach, 179
boldness, 171
boldness of thought, 232
The Christian Virtuoso, 181, 185
civil servant, 196
conscience, 119
corpuscularist philosophy, 215
cosmology of powers, 317
crises of faith, 120
elitist razor, 207
Epicurian, 118
evolution in his conception of nature, 239
intellectualist natural theologian, 224
mecenas of Sanderson, 138
naturalist, 184
nature of the things, 231
obscurity of reason, 231
The Origine of Formes and Qualities according to the Corpuscular Philosophy, 169, 183, 215, 217, 315
paradox of nature, 239
persona, 180
physical world unknown, 232
publicist, 168
rare imagination, 196
reason created weak, 225
study of air, 213
Of the Study of the Booke of Nature, 118, 195
Of the Usefulness of Experimentall Natural Philosophy, 170, 171, 197
voluntarist moral theologian, 224
young moralist, 118
Bramhall Bishop, 52, 55, 63, 64, 97, 99
Brazil, 201
Brett Annabel, 84
Bruni Leonardo, 292, 296
Bryson
advise the wealthy man, 301
On the Man’s Management of his Estate, 291, 303–306
property, 301
bullion, 130, 363
want of, 364
burden
of freedom, 392
of knowledge, 391
bureaucracy, 108, 122
Buridan, 152
Burton Robert, 33, 400
business, 174
business morality, 185
horrific, 204
Calvin, 142, 334
Calvinism, 56
Calvinist, 141, 143
orthodoxy, 137
Cambridge, 125
Cambridge Platonists, 24, 28, 151
Campanella, 111
capital, 124
investments in Bryson, 305
capitalism, 46
Cardinalis, 291
Carey Daniel, 359
Carneades, 34, 269
Carolina, 330
settlers, 330
Cartesian Laws of Motion, 216
Cartesianism, 5
Case John, 11, 297
case of perplexity, 256
Case of the Engagement, The, 160
case of the prisoner, 395
casuistic
English moral, 140
casuistry
as modern political thought, 144
context of political thought, 146
casuists
Anglican, 146
Jesuit, 146
Catholics, 105
causal syllogisms
moral reasoning, 145
cause
necessitating, 63
Cavendish Lady Margaret, 187
Cavendish Sir Charles, 207
certainty
particular sciences, 68
chain of causes, 96, 103
charity, 34
Charles I, 95, 137, 139, 159
Charles II, 38, 137, 139, 246, 331
romance with his people, 247
Charleton Walter
Epicure, translator, 187
chemistry, 108, 118, 168
Chymical Pharmacy, 36
Chymicks, 111
natural law, 174
philosophical science, 219
Child Josiah
Brief Observation Concerning Trade, and Interest of Money, 346
Christ, 22, 80
faith in, 103
Jesus, 95
Jesus is the Christ. See Hooker Richard
teachings, 116
Christ Church Oxford, 126
Christianity, 19
barbarous Christians, 37
Christian cosmology. See Hobbes
materialized, 32
orthodox, 19
subjective belief. See Hobbes
Church, 79, 159
Anglican, 28, 176
Catholic, 29
critique. See Hobbes
English, 147
Fathers of, 103
proposal of expropriation, 122
Cicero, 97
citizens
devout, 56
free, 43
civil law
preventing preservation, 101
will of God, 140
Civil Power
caracteristics of government, 162
civil religion, 137
civil science, 97, 98
civil servant, 105, 367
civil society, 253
Civil Wars, 37, 40, 44, 45, 51, 95, 98, 106
Clarendon Earl of, 247
classicism
critique of. See Hobbes
coexisting principles
soul and body, 275
colonialism
colonial America, 39
English, 329
colonies
and nation, 330
Carolina, 1629 Proposal, 128
manufacturers, 133
resources, 107
Comenius Jan Amos, 109, 112, 121, 123
anthropology, 171
Naturall Philosophie, 111
Pansophy, 116, 121
starting with matter’, 131
Universal College, 120
Unum Necessarium, 114–117
Via Lucis, 120
commerce, 121
needs money, 381
commercialization, 320
commodities, 42, 129, 170
conquest and possesion of nations, 130
distribution in international markets, 132
distribution of natural commodities, 133
information about, 123
monopolysing, 130
‘most necessarie commodities’, 133
reputation of foreign commodities, 133
slaves and servants, 203
transplantation of, 200
universal, 312
common advantage of the individual, 271
common good, 26, 83, 161, 299, 327, 342
magistrate, 249
of the people, 343
common necessity, 267
common property
animals, 403
transition to private, 411
common sense
against, 185
divine’s, 160
common social project of subsistence, 327
commonwealth, 10, 40, 83, 122, 123, 132, 274, 365
Actions and Judgments, 93
almost natural life of, 93
Anglican ideal, 158
Christian, 42, 53, 85, 101
Common-wealth, 53
constitution of the, 99
covenant artificial, 94
creation, 92
economic success, 352
ends, 94
English constitution, 47
free man, 97
Independency and commonwealth, 52
judgment of need, 95
law of, 89
laws and the sword, 101
majority, 44
of mankind, 364
minority, 44
Multitude, 93
one Will, 94
origins of, 327
the poor, 94
representation of, 93
respect of property, 417
right to resist, 88
spiritual, 85
Commonwealth period, 37
communion of saints, 107, 123, 124
community, 290
godly Puritan, 138
of mankind, 326
rational, 89
scientific and commercial, 107
competition, 91
compliance
external, 159
conquest
chain of necessary causes, 100
conscience, 5, 26, 28, 38, 82, 136, 139, 154, 181, 369
absolutely and relatively upright, 155
acknowledgement or judgement. See Aquinas
as an act. See Aquinas
aside from political discourse, 260
automatic remorse, 156
cases of, 140
casualty, 261
contested, 264
definition in Latin Two Tracts, 252
discoverer of the law of nature, 265
doubting, 146
doubts of in compliance with the law, 161
duty of, 160
erasure of, 265
free, 157
internalized, 244
inviolability of, 146
law touching, 248
laws of, 137
liberty, 153
matters of, 245
monopoly of, 113
necessary law or rule, 154
obscured light of reason, 154
of King’s subjects, 161
office, 154
opinion, 262
peace of, 160
private, 253
private law, 260
private spiritual, 255
proper rule, 154
Public, 26
pure, 162
purity of, 152
right use of the faculties, 266
rule of Law, 148
rules of, 145
Sanderson theory, 152–156
scruples of dissecting nature, 241
self-interest, 262
sylogistical, 148
the age of, 146
tranquility of, 145
violation of, 153
watchdog of reason, 253
witness of, 263
witness of God’s voice, 265
consciences
danger for, 246
liberty of, 256
consciousness, 29
heart, 148
of want, 378
Puritan, 214
consent, 38, 44, 47, 128
free consent to the laws, 99
in need, 403
consequences of the Fall, 228
conservation, 90
body of the commonwealth, 84
human body, 84
constitutions
fight against, 157
consumption
exponential increase, 194
contingency, 6
contingent, 51
contingent things, 137
continuity of nature
manipulation, 218
controversy De auxiliis, 142
conveniencies, 85
Corneanu Sorana, 177
corpuscles, 175
corpuscularianism, 173, 183, 277, 391
corruption, 326
Council for Foreign Plantations, 196
Council for Trade and Foreign Plantations, 105, 132, 211
President, 329
Council of State, 131, 132
Council of Trade, 105, 126, 127, 211
Council of Trent, 142
Creation
design of, 193
hierarchy of forms. See Albert the Great
creatures
‘made for Man’, 199
credit, 91, 368, 381
assurance of money, 375
expansion of, 342
for poor and rich, 353
poor merchants, 354
without interest, 355
credit money
invention, 109
credit system, 109
critical anthropological
lack of in Boyle, 243
critique and praise of rethoric
Hobbes, 97–98
Cromwell Oliver
readmission of the Jews, 360
Cross John of the, 29
Cudworth Ralph, 24–31, 151, 252
Chimerical Agent Intelligence, 152
Culpeper Sir Cheney, 112, 127–129
broadmindedness, 131
Culpeper Sir Thomas, 341, 347
Cumberland Richard, 229
Anglican rationalism, 230
common good, 231
greatest Advantages, 230
Hobbes’s natural law, 229
An Inquiry into the Laws of Nature, 224
laws of nature, 231
natural laws, 230
nature of the thing, 230
Rewards and Punishments, 230
A Treatise of the Laws of Nature, 230
da Varignana Bartolomeo, 294
damage
by error, 89
danger
imminent, 95
publick, 161
Darkness
outside eventually revealed, 232
Darwin
and Boyle, 183
Davenant Charles, 381
de Arriba Francisco
Variarum difficiliumque speculativae, 142
de Brugis Bartholomaeus, 294
de Medici Cosimo, 296
de Molina Luis Jesuit, 142
de Montemayor Prudencio Jesuit, 142
de Vitoria Francisco, 2, 190
death
cause of, 212
unnecessary, 212
debate
John Henry and Peter Harrison, 225
decree of God
Leviathan, 104
Deism, 21, 28
Deist, 181
deists, 217
derivatives, 322
Descartes, 37
Descartes René, 27, 53, 54, 57, 138, 163
Cartesian Principles, 36
laws of nature innate, 233
design
rational, 226
desire, 96, 269, 408
to accumulate, 417
against passivity, 199
centrality of, 183
contemplation, 189
deep-rooted, 114
definition in An Essay, 378
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 378
greedy, 45
human, 115
industriousness, 199
irrational, 92
Lawfull, 123
motivation for action, 378
multiplicity of, 118, 197
of preservation, 401
superfluous, 119
teacher of, 117
for things, 85
unlimited, 189
utilitarianism, 189
desire for the world, 213
desire or necessity, 270
determinism, 49, 51, 62, 63, 76
Charleton Walter, 188
material, 273
metaphysical, 100
moral, 267
dictator
bound to, 160
Digby Sir Kenelm, 165, 166, 172, 179
Two Treatises on The Nature of Body and on the Nature of Mans Soul, 221
disappearance
conscience in the public space, 255
disruption
social, religious and political, 91
dissension
about laws, property, liberty and magistratical prerogative, 39
distribution, 47
diversity
Galen, 289
of diseases, 281
divine law
threat and promises, 181
divine natural law, 408
divine order, 112
entrusted to Nature, 111
divine rights of kings
possessive, 41
divines, 139, 196
Doctrine of Election, 56
doctrine of free will, 136
doctrine of necessities, 7, 10, 49–52, 53, 56, 70, 77, 81, 84, 91, 93, 98–100, 103, 114, 273, 312, 314, 359, 419
faith, 102
Figure, 333
Leviathan, 86
doctrine of salvation, 142
dominion, 39, 83, 115, 408
bundle of rights, 190
complete over goods, 190
different types, 193
nature, 110
right to use, 190
dominion rights, 405
Dordt Synod of, 141
doubtful cases, 157
du Moulin Charles, 334
dualism, 24, 29, 35, 46, 59, 66, 68, 73, 93, 186, 310
soul and physical body, 275
Dublin, 106
Dublin Castle, 361
Duke of York, 331
Dunn John, 20, 40
Dury John, 107, 127, 128
Dutch, 47, 357
bank, 132
imitation of, 133
markets of, 133
outdoing, 135
trade, 132
duty, 50
dual, 159
to God and man, 101
to the public, 105
Earl of Cork First, 118, 171, 205
early modern England, 91
East India Company, 346
East India Trade, 349
economic materialism, 415
economic phenomena
purely, 323
economic spiritualism, 415
economics of science, 172, 175
economy, 31
Boyle’s paradigm shift, 195
Boyle’s, 179
commonwealth. See Hobbes
English, 108
money and commerce, 47, See state
national, 369
naturalized, 46
resurrection of, 127
revival of, 107
scientific study, 105
virtuous, 46
wheels of the, 48
Edwards John, 28
egoism
rejection of, 90
Elizabeth I Queen, 362
eloquence, 97
usefulness of, 98
empire, 196, 202
aristocratic, 330
British Empire, 18, 179, 180, 195, 196
commercial, 43
dream of production and riches, 330
empire-building, 43
expansion of, 196
‘inlargement of Empire’, 162
‘of man’ over creatures, 179
naturalist over creatures, 199
over creatures, 205
products, 169
Spanish Empire, 204
Spanish, French, British empires, 2
trading and colonial, 180
empiricism, 114, 273, 328
British, 24
17th century, 119
English empiricists, 287
pure, 131
employment, 134
engines, 170, 201
England
commercial and cultural rise of, 130
Great Instaurator, 131
Umpire, 130
English economy
experimental, 341
English natural law, 18
English natural lawyers, 45
English virtuosi, 30
Enlightenment, 3
enthusiasm, 7, 28, 34, 280, 328
desires, 197
money, 358
without, 101
entrepreneurs, 305
Enumerated Commodities Act, 126
Epicure
Epicureans, 179
Epicurean, 240
Epicure, 189
Epicureanism, 180, 189
Gassendi, 207, 287
praise of desires, 198
episcopacy, 52
epistemology, 22, 28
‘Adamic epistemology’, 106
dualist, 67
link with metaphysics. See Alber the Great
Locke, 390
Locke’s naturalist, 265
money, 377
optimism, 67
point of view, 226
sceptic, 30
equality, 12, 374
husband and wife, 293
equality of human beings, 407
Erastian politics, 147
esse essentia/esse existentia, 60, 61
essence, 65
in existence, 66
separated from existence, 66
superfluous, 65
ethical traditions, 176
ethics, 314
of multiplication, 177
of the household, 275
rationality of, 152
Eve, 164
evil, 28, 289
appearance of, 59
human beings, 90
Malum, 69
exchange, 124
Exchange-meetings, 124
executive power, 417
existence
assuredness of, 62
cause and effect, 71
essences, 64
existent, 63
metaphysics of, 53
natural existence, 67
necessary, 58
Necessary Existence. See God
necessitated by another, 62
philosophy of, 66
of the soul. See Avicenna
experience, 185
human action, 404
experimental philosopher, 207
experimental philosophy, 167, 177
experimental science, 170, 171
defence of usefulness, 204
moral theory, 177
experimental scientist
caution of, 240
experiments, 106, 110, 168
disclosure of, 200
fructiferous. See Bacon
luciferous. See Bacon
lucriferous. See Boyle
failure to understand, 257
Faires or Money marts, 349
faith, 22, 31, 33, 86, 100, 178, 267
and economy, 196
Boyle’s, 180
personal, 77
fall of tradition, 162
fallacy
of unlimited rights, 89
fear, 96, 99
and freedom, 98
of the power of the spiritual. See Hobbes
of the private, 107
of the private Corporation, 107
shipwreck, 98
of the state, 107
feudalism, 47
Filmer Sir Robert, 37–44, 297, 402
historiography, 44
Patriarcha, 43
private dominion, 406
financial life, 320
political control, 343
Financial Revolution
Flemish cities, 382
scientific methods, 383
financial schemes
Reformers, 328
financial system
national necessity, 321
First Treatise
paragraph 86, 406–407
Fleetwood Sir William, 339
floating man, 73–74
Florence, 206
food
as needs, 303
quantity, 278
fool
Leviathan, 89
fragmentation
faith and political representation, 136
matter and spirit, 119
of concepts, 46
of reason, 120
François Melon
Essai politique sur le commerce, 204
free trade, 131, 381
free will, 143, 144, 185
in civil virtues. See Boyle
use of, 192
freedom, 24, 52, 86, 96
Christian, 100
free agent. See Hobbes
human, 55, See Hobbes Thomas
less deterministic, 100
mystery of human, 100
natural, 43
necessity, 366
proper object of desire, 394
theory of moral, 62
voluntary act, 81
freedom in Leviathan
flowing water, 96–97
freedom of conscience, 153
Bagshaw Edward, 247
Sanderson, 156
French Huguenots, 107
French moralists, 287
French Queen, the Spanish Anne of Austria, 143
French theology, 58
frugality, 374
Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, 330
fundamental law of nature
of preservation, 401
Galen, 111, 284–291
Galenian corpus, 292
Galenic system, 276
Natural Faculties, 285, 303
On the Properties of Foodstuffs, 290
philosopher and logician, 285
soul, 287
Galenic tradition, 281
Galileo, 57
Garden of Eden, 110, 414
Gassendi, 37
Gassendi Pierre, 30, 53, 172, 207
‘baptism of Epicure’, 182
Gee Edward, 37
Geneva, 186, 206
Gerson Jean
De vita spirituale animae, 408
Ghent Henry of, 58, 59–61, 66, 88, 398, 405
Questio 26 of Quodlibet IX, 395
global economy
natural resources, 380
Glorious Revolution, 325, 332, 383
God, 27, 93, 103, 163
‘subjects’ and ‘enemies’, 77
absolute power, 59, 79, See power
agent intellect, 149
arbitrary will of, 226
as a chemist, 175
belief in. See Hobbes
between awe and possessiveness, 243
bountiful, 164, 177
Calvin’s punitive, 164
can do otherwise. See Aquinas
children of, 409
concurrence, 227
the Creator, 110
Creator and Designer, 170
the decree of, 51, 64
Designer of nature, 319
desire, 167
divine mind, 59
the first law of nature, 57
first of all causes, 96
fool’s claim, 89
foundation of magistracy, 250
freedom of, 237
Glory, 120
God’s plan, 68
God’s will. See Hobbes
guide to human knowledge, 234
is everything. See Hobbes
image of, 193
infinite understanding, 234
is everything. See Hobbes
King and Lord and Father. See Hobbes
kingdom of, 22
merciful, 407
merciful Father, 400
munificent Benefactor, 167
Necessary Existent, 62, 67
necessity of, 216
no necessity. See Hobbes
omnipotence, 79, 112
omnipotent, 4, 316
ordained power, 59, See power
ordinary power, 79
possession of, 191
power of, 2, 54
power over the nature of the thing, 193
Prime Mover, 62
principles planted in mind, 185
proof of existence. See Hobbes
superior judge of necessity, 88
superior will, 100
Supreme Legislator, 146
twofold working ad extra, 143
will of, 54, 84
wisdom of, 111
Workmanship, 119
Goddard Jonathan, 209
gold, xiii, 48, 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 122, 170, 219, 220, 304, 352, 353, 363, 366, 373, 412, 421
gold accidents, 219
good, 10, 28, 81, 153, 299, 378
aims, 150
choice, 393
of the Commonwealth, 161
desire, 284
exterior received from another, 194
genuine, 400
masters, 203
natural commodification, 170
use of natural, 193
good life, 274
good man
prefers the publick, 161
goodness, 150, 317
goodness (divinity) of the created world, 59
Gospel, 95
government, 38, 41, 108, 249, 409
about terrestrial interests, 274
centrality of, 327
de facto, 52–53
de jure, 52
first, 416
gratitude to, 160
minimal, 274
necessities of the nation, 418
of human society, 117
of reason, 183
of the world by God, 237
origins of, 42
popular, 43
public, 274
grace, 141
grain of sand
individual creation, 210
Great Albert the, 6, 23, 147, 306
Great Instauration, 212
greed, xii, 33, 86, 115, 119, 243, 269, 270, 299, 321, 352, 358, 379, 420
greedy Appetites, 118, 197
Grotius Hugo, 23, 102, 144
growth
and multiplication, 177
economic, 31, 45, 109
in consumption, 91
unlimited economic growth, 7
Hammond Henry, 141, 158
happiness, 192
luxury, 384
Harrington James, 47, 380
Oceana, 47
‘Preliminaries’ of Oceana, 47
Hartlib
communication and exchange, 122
Hartlib circle, 107, 110, 112, 118, 123, 125, 126, 129, 205, 206, 328, 352
alchemical project, 110
Hartlib Samuel, 105, 114, 127, 205, 361
Considerations tending to the happy accomplishment of Englands reformation in Church and State, 122
distribution of labour of the Office, 125
funding of the Office, 125
Office, 120–126
Office of Communication, 125
Office of Spirituall and Temporall Adresses, 123
scientific research, 124
Hartlib’s papers, 125, 361
Harvey William, 284
hedonism, 190
Henry John, 186
Hippocratic tradition, 281
history
postlapsarian, 45
history of journalism, 384
history of political theory, 325
history of science, 166
history of stocks
war with France, 386
Hobbes Thomas, xii, 5, 7, 10, 23, 25, 30, 40, 44, 45, 49, 59, 63, 64, 66, 68, 71, 138, 139, 207, 209, 231, 232, 267, 316, 392, 408
‘metaphysics of separation’, 72
allegiance to, 140
Avicenna, 66–69
Behemoth, 98
casuist, 146
De Cive, 45, 78, 92, 97
De Corpore, 65, 72
decree of God, 68
dogmas, 78
early scholasticism, 69
The Elements of Law, 92, 97, 167
France, 65
frontispiece of De Cive, 97
Hobbes’s natural philosophy, 57
Hobbesian, 186
Hobbism before Hobbes, 140
immersed in things, 75
Jesus is the Christ, 103
Latin Leviathan, 66
Leviathan, 30, 49, 53, 62, 65, 67, 71, 75, 163, 254, 259
Of Liberty and Necessity, 55, 58, 65, 97
materialist, 75
optics, 69
Physical Dialogue, 79
physicalist, 66
prudential judgment, 81
relativist, 92
satirical tone, 78
sceptic, 92
secular project, 76
Short Tract of First Principles, 69
spiritual” kingdom’, 64
theological project, 76
Hobbes’s de facto theory, 159
Hobbesian, 407
Hodges James
desire and need for money, 379
needs, 373
Honorius of Kent Magister
Summa de iure canonico tractaturus to Gratian Decretum, 411
Hooker Richard, 80
Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, 80
Houghton John, 384
England’s Great Happiness, 384
Husbandry and Trade Improved, 383–389
letters on stockjobbing, 385
household, 41, 179
essence of the city, 296
necessary for happiness, 297
patriarchal, 42
household economics
Greek-Arabic tradition, 5, 291–311
household management, 275
Hudson Bay Company, 329
human beings
affections, 189
compared with animals, 189
crafty, 88
created for delights, 186
de facto in the world, 184
divine element, 152
knowledge of the truth of the world, 150
knowledge of the world, 243
labyrinth, 121
lords of nature, 169
outside nature, 184, 204
physicalist conception, 276
preservation, 90
spiritualist conception, 276
subjects of needs and delights. See Boyle
sustenance of, 193
human decision, 68
human heart
inbred depravity, 157
human law, 252
guide of conscience, 146
will of God, 146
human morality
analysis of. See Locke
human nature, 184
as reason, 151
corrupted, 186
The Nasirean Ethics, 303
vexing aspects, 180
human necessities, 263, 274, 312, 313, 392, 402
and reality, 391
human needs, 12, 311
human ordinances
guide of conscience, 145
human will
free, blind, undetermined, 154
in potential to another, 154
necessitates, 394
humanism, 98
humanists, 66
humanity, 12
love of, 121
manager of nature’s oeconomy, 243
separated from nature, 166
transformation, 274
without God, 393
Hunter Michael, 173
ideas, 72, See God
ectypal, 29
innate, 30
of Hunger and Warmth, 394
ignorance, 51, 218, 237
ignorant
philosophers, 289
imprudence, 281
independence
theological. See Worsley
Independency, 171, 349
Independents, 105, 115, 426, See also Worsley
‘matters indifferent’, 245
nonconformists, 256
indifferent act, 154
indifferent things, 137
magistrate, 254
individual conscience, 244, 248, 254, 259, 260
individuals
difficulty in being fair, 250
primacy of, 320
Industrial Revolution, 3, 200
English, 202
industrious, 167, 211
indagation of the creatures, 197
life, 106
industriousness, 30, 117, 121, 176, 183, 195
in experiment, 232
ingenios, 201, 202
injustice, 89
innate ideas
almost like. See Avicenna
innate principles, xi, 392
Locke’s denial, 264
innateness, 261
innocence, 106
innocent
life, 137
insurance system, 352
intellect, 29, 151
ordering of, 187
Plastick Power, 28
intellectual light, 149
interest, 48, 244, 333, 338, 363
agreement, 372
analogous to rent of land, 372
chymera of Dutch money, 346
fluctuate with the market, 333
impact on value of land, 375
individual, 250
law powerless about natural interest, 377
legitimate, 376
Locke’s theory, 371–377
lowering, 371
natural level, 371
natural price, 380
natural rate of, 374
of the state, 128
private, 46, 271
private and public, 107
public, 46
rational self-interest, 91
self-interest, 83
self-interest of a tiger, 83
service to nation’s economy, 376
simple natural, 345
systemic dependencies about, 371
vested, 43
international market
hazards, 381
Interregnum, 211, 338
Invisible College, 120, 121
intellectual commons, 121
project, 125
Ireland, 205, 206
administrator, 206
opportunity of experimentation, 206
irrational
egoism, 90
irregularities
of the physical world, 234
irreverence, 241
Islamic economic thought, 293
Jacobs Henry, 36
Jamaica, 196
jealousy of mines, 353
Jesuits, 172
Jesus. See unum necessarium
Jesus is the Christ. See Hobbes
Jews
readmission in England, 348
judgment, 85
about the necessary, 84, 87
acumen, 93
inadequacy of transferral, 92
moral, 188
necessities of the commonwealth, 95
jurisprudence, 117
just, 97, 101
individual, 397
justice, 25, 50, 194, 258, 310
as necessity, 101
social, 127
Kant Immanuel
Perpetual Peace, 144
Keynes John Maynard, 48, 365
King, 113
kingdom
of Darkness, 85
natural, 83
neighbouring kingdoms, 130
preservation, 95
Universal Kindome of God, 123
knowledge, xi, 3, 22, 28, 30, 63, 163
about nature, 170
about self-preservation. See self-preservation
about the necessary, 117
and opinion, 391
aquisition, 227
beyond our grasp, 153
brain, mind and soul, 152
by necessities, 390
certain knowledge of the passions, 155
circle of, 112
deconstruction, 166
dedication to, 120
difussed, 200
discovery of, 258
distribution of, 108
ecological, 4
enumeration of, 211
ever broader horizon, 243
experimental, 110
exquisite, 118
growth, 225
human, 210
link with dominion, 110
masking the lack of, 239
moral, 34
necessary, 266
new, 55
of God through senses, 264
of nature, 198
of products of nature, 195
of the law, 148
philosophical, 174
politics of, 103
primary, 62
problem of, 56
productive, 106
profit and power, 389
reform of, 135
theory of, 46
universal, 148, 195
universal cause of, 105
unlimited, 7
unrealistic, 282
useful, 106
utility of, 45
vast, 171
weakness of, 316
l’Amy Hugh, 128
laboratory, 118
labour, 134, 328, 414, See Hobbes
and trades management, 170
conditions in Barbados of, 203
Handie-labor, 134
labourers, 327
necessities, 404
productive, 106
reducing costs, 201
slaves in Barbados. See Barbados
land, 380
value increase through labour, 413
land ownership, 47
land rents, 48
landed proprietors and investors, 330
landgrabber
Earl of Cork, 205
language of necessities, 322, 366
Laslett Peter, 39
laws, 83, 100
binding force, 157
civil, 26, See freedom
civil law, 86
common law, 44
divine, 26
history of international law, 5
law as command, 83
Lawes and Liberties, 38
majority and minority, 161
moral, 135
of motion, 4
necessitating power, 137
notional rule. See Boyle
only addressed to intellectual beings, 182
order and peace grounded in, 248
philosopher of, 12
philosophy of law, 5
private, 252
of trade, 131, 135
of trade and Manufactures, 134
law carries the sword, 137
law of nature, 87–89, 93, 154, 155, 218, 262, 275, 396
crimes against, 416
first and fundamental, 88
not inscribed, 266
of preservation of the people, 414
self-interest, 270
violation, 270, 411
lawful, 153
lawmaker
judge of circumstantial determination, 248
laws of motion, 119, 181, 182, 237
immutable, 238
laws of nature, 30, 54, 82, 84, 85, 88, 119, 164, 346
as laws of motion, 242
conclusions. See Hobbes Thomas
Hobbes’s, 91
laws of motion. See Boyle
settled, 181
theorems, 82
laws of trade, 105
le Pruvost Pierre, 107, 128
legal reasoning, 11
legal-political structure’. See Hobbes
legislators, 416
Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm
Casibus Perplexis in Jure, 258
mind of the legislator, 259
Leicester’s Commonwealth, 340
Leiden, 284
Leng Thomas, 134
liberal natural lawyers, 1
liberalism, 12
liberal, 12
liberal politics, 1
liberty, 44, 87, 96, 100
absence of regulation, 100
and not necessity, 26
as necessity, 100
human, 98
Impediments, 101
motion, 97
natural, 43
physical notion of. See Hobbes
licit power, 395
light, 108
pure. See Albert the Great
light acquired, 155
light in the mind
rule of law, 148
light of nature, 5, 28, 38, 80, 82, 145, 155, 188, 264, 266
consequences of the Fall, 6
extremely obscure, 147
four notions. See Sanderson
light of moral nature, 1
naturalism, 265
of reason, 45
participation in the eternal law, 6
light of reason, 46, 81, 82, 153, See Hobbes
‘intestine Dictator’, 188
clouded, 154
faint spark, 145
Magna charta, 187
light of the intellect
knowledge, virtue and human nature, 148
Ligon Richard
A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados, 203
Lincoln Bishop of, 139
Lincoln College, 139
Lismore Castle, 205
little Atlantis, 210
locality
foods, 34
local customs, 34
Locke John, xi, 9, 20, 24, 27, 28, 31, 40, 46, 47, 48, 56, 59, 88, 105, 110, 123, 126, 132, 136, 153, 162, 172, 173, 190, 236, 243, 273, 287, 385
ambiguity, 325
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 266, 269, 277, 316, 322, 324, 332, 377, 390, 391, 395
An Essay on Toleration, 274, 275
anthropology, 379
case of the prisoner, 399
change of perspective, 318
civil servant, 329
Commissioner of Excise Appeal, 332
Comptroller of the Mint, 328
corpuscularianism, 313–319
diversity, 260
early authoritarianism, 249
early natural law, 327
economic analysis, 373
encounter with Boyle, 263
Essays on the Law of Nature, 136, 244, 261, 393
ethics, 400
First Treatise, 406
France, 283
Further Considerations Concerning Raising the Value of Money, 359
God as power, 317
Hobbist, 250
Holland, 283
human morality, 390
‘Idea of Man’, 316
investor, 381
knowledge, 390
legislation, 381
liberal, 329
Locke’s notebook, 132
Madness, notes, 289
medical studies, 276
nation, 325
natural law, 324
natural science method, 374
necessities, 319–324
necessities foundational concept, 333
new understanding of conscience, 253
original authorship, 376
paradox of money and necessities, 325
practice of medicine, 282
promotion of English trade and capital, 381
public order, 248
rights, 324
rule of law, 251
scientific economic thinking, 323
Second Treatise on Government, 44
Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest and Raising the Value of Money, 376
studies on money, 320
The Reasonableness of Christianity, 399
Two Tracts of Government, 136, 244
Two Treatises of Government, 322, 324, 327, 329, 369, 393, 398, 405
unity of thought, 332
virtuous, 249
Writings on money, 320
Locke’s library
A Letter to a Friend Concerning Usury, 346
books on medicine and sciences, 278
London, 39, 120
London stock market, 381
Long Parliament, 109, 122, 328
Lords Proprietor of Carolina, 329
lottery loans, 320
lottery tickets, 322, 388
Louis XIV, 143
love
fraternal, 335
motivation for action, 378
love of money, 48, 335
as possession, 425
means to enjoy life, 425
Lowndes William, 359
lucriferous
sugar in Barbados, 202
to the public, 202
Lūqā Qusṭā ibn, 293
Lushington Thomas, 35
Luther
disconnect of God’s and humans’ right reason, 223
luxury, 117, 171
Machiavellian, 42, 43
politics, 274
MacIntyre Alasdair, 46
MacPherson C.B., 32, 86, 90, 91
madness, 34
magistracy
distinction from religion, 274
economy of the world, 250
scope of, 248
Magistrate, 153, 249
Christian reformed, 123
de facto, 159
Hartlib’s Office, 124
Nursing Father, 123
power of, 256
supreme, 140
things indifferent, 157
Malcolm Noel
Thomas Hobbes and Voluntarist Theology, 79
malt tickets, 382
Malynes Gerard, 341
‘Usurie politike’, 342, 343
Consuetudo, vel lex mercatoria, 334, 342
Man
Priest of the world, 119
Manley Thomas
Usury at six per cent examined, 346
manufactory
owner, 201
manufacturers, 48, 128, 130
canon or rules of, 133
industrial. See plantations
market
enclosed, 131
great market of Hartlib’s Office, 124
preference for cheap, 133
rise of, 91
utilitarian model, 91
Marx Karl, 32, 414
The Capital, 32, 312, 365
Masham Damaris (Cudworth), 26, 28
material equality, 47
material goods, 45
material inequality, 47
materialism, 40, 166
Western, 32
mathematics, 69
matter
dominion over, 164
investigation of, 164
underlying structure, 215
matter and motion, 168
Boyle’s fascination with, 167
matters indifferent, 244
pamphlets, 245–248
matters of religious ceremony, 245
mechanical, 202
affections, 175, 216
conscience, 140, 157
Effects and distempers, 120
hands, 201, 202
laws, 136
laws of nature, 220
philosophy, 166
theory, 167
mechanical philosophers, 57
mechanics, 69
mechanistic
French philosophers, 137
liberty, 98
natural philosophy, 168
philosophers, 53
philosophy, 22, 53, 136, 140
principles, 24
mechanization, 52
medicine, xi, 11, See Worsley
medical notions, 47
philosophy, 275
reason and logic, 283
melancholy, 34
memorandum on interest
Lord Ashley, 367
mendicants
Dominican and Franciscan, 102
mercantilism, 135
metaphysical structure
necessity, 321
metaphysics, 1–10, 10, 27, 29, 46, 63–65, 70, 153, 273, See Hobbes
is this good?, 81
is this necessary?, 81
logic in, 63
metaphysical point, 63
metaphysical reality, 61
minimalist, 179
necessitarian, 84
necessitarianism, 276
of necessity, 311
of needs, 311
Neoplatonist, 73
of body. See body
of existence, 59, 75
of necessity, 97, 98
unmetaphysical self-interest, 91
vulgar, 170
method
experimental, 231
sophistication, 206
micro-macrocosm analogy, 123
microscopes, 208
millenarian, 171, 180, 208
radicalism, 214
relativism, 179
Millenarianism, 14, 107
Milton John, 110, 229
dim light of conscience, 229
Paradise Lost, 110, 115
work of justice, 229
mind
training, 177
moderation, 137
religious, 139
money, 7–10, 45, 108, 126, 130, 133, 194, 250, 270, 293, 319
absent in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 379
alchemy and credit-money, 352
and desire, 377
as a commodity, 372
as a necessity, 356, 358, 365, 379
as food, 375
as land, 345
as raison d’état, 48
Bank of Amsterdam, 354
base metal, 363
benefit of mankind, 413
bill of publique faith, 364
Bills of Exchange, 354
cash, 48
centrality of, 328
clipping, 361
commodity, 375
commodity of exchange, 379
covetousness and idolatry, 341
demand, 377
depoliticization of, 8, 359
desire contained, 378
devaluation of, 378
double nature of, 371
economics, xii
enlargement of possessions, 413
exchange for necessaries, 375
financial crisis 2008, 8
financialization, 9
for itself, 379
foreign trade, 362
formal medium, 8
good money, 380
hoarding up, 353, 360, 412
human dimensions. See Boyle
interest, 33
international convention, 359
intrinsick value, 361
land-banking, 352
landlord, merchant, labourer, 373
lending, 48
lifeblood of the economy, 48
Locke’s ambivalence on, 378
Locke’s purification of, 358
Locke’s scarcity of, necessity and needs, 358
monetary economy, 1
monetary transactions, 91
monetizing land, 352
moral approach in Islam, 294
naturalization, 298
nature of, 336
necessary, 320
necessities of the nation, 413
never barren, 372
new money, 361
origen, Bryson, 304
Potter’s plan for base metal money, 361–365
raise for the commonealth. See Hobbes
regulated by law, 413
representative of need, 300
running debts of the world, 363
scarce, 360, 378
science of money, xi
scientific, 7
scientific discussion of, 356
scientification of, 10, 357, 359
shortage, 108
substitute for land, 376
theoretical transformation of, 357
money borrowing
Constitution of Humane society, 356
moneylending
inescapable, 295
monied man
brokers, 386
monsters, 236
Montaigne, 258
Montes pietatis, 343
Montpellier, 283, 292
Montpellier Blasius of, 294
moral
actions, 144
human agency, 175
needs, 71
teacher, 117
moral act
syllogism of demonstrative knowledge, 154
moral dilemmas, 255
Glossators, 257
moral duty
obedience to the law, 140
moral law, 182, 187
moral natural law, 222, 314, 321, 323, 357
voluntarist in Boyle, 223
moral nature, 204
moral perplexity, 255
moral philosophy, 83, 104, 138, 147, 153, 180, 188, 190
20th century, 91
desintegration, 91
mechanistic, 176
money, 357
rational, 393
moral reasoning, 404
hierarchy of laws, 146
method of reasoning, 145
moral theology, 46
moral theory
multifaceted. See Locke
morality, 30, 33, 73, 178, 196, 366
Christian, 48
communitarian aspects of, 177
hedonistic, 30
mechanical practice, 146
medical, 35
moral decay, 56
morality within, 27
of cases, 119
of intentions, 271
positive law. See Boyle
More Henry, 24
Moses, 111
Moulin Lewis du, 347
multiplication
counterpart of therapy, 177
lack of moral doctrine, 177
multiply trades, 202
science and theology of, 177
multiplier, 163, 169–174
multiply
labors and troubles, 115
Mutuall Occassions and Accommodations, 124
mysteries of stocks, 385
mystery, 4, 19
hypostasys, 103
names
animals, 110
nation, 43
becoming wealthy, 373
centre of empire, 381
necessities, 249, 274
necessity of, 326
survival, 159
natives
Ireland, 206
natural history, 210, 266
Irish Naturall History, 283
natural histories, 295
natural law, xi, 24, 31, 35, 40, 45–48, 50, 56, 59, 71, 113, 136, 163, 173, 177, 187, 238, 241, 252, 257, 264, 274, 275, 306, 334, 369, 398
classic, 135
conscience, 262
decline of moral, 177
demise of natural law, xii
early modern, 11
English natural law, xi
history of natural law, 1, 108
Hobbes’s natural law, 87, 90
Hobbism, 250
includes irrational creatures, 224
liberty of, 402
moral natural law, xii, 165
moral philosophy and, 56
non-human, 163
novel, 327
of necessity, 302
philosophy of, 53
postlapsarian recognition, 145
revolution, 223
transformation in 17th century, 175
natural law theory, 325
natural laws, 73, 182, 217, 220
fundamental Law of Nature, 90
human bodies, 73
participation of, 233
substantial change, 324
violation of, 89
natural lawyer, 136, 144, 157
natural philosopher, 126
natural philosophy, xi, 15, 54, 55, 57, 63, 65, 72, 76, 113, 137, 145, 150, 163–166, 168, 173, 175, 178, 179, 182, 187, 196, 199, 208, 217, 221, 222, 224, 225, 231, 233, 234, 276, 313, 314, 358, 365, 369, 370
chemistry, 168
manifesto. See Worsley
new, 46
theoretical, 215
usefulness, 198
natural reason
sceptic, 56
natural resources, 2, 194
natural rights, 46, 49, 50, 53, 86, 87, 108, 324, 397, 403, 418
to everything, 86, 167
external rights, 50
give away, 87
God’s praise, 195
internal standard, 50
Leviathan, 89
meaningful, 75
measure of right, 87
of preservation, 398
of property. See property
to retaine, 87
tradition, 405
transferring one’s right. See Hobbes Thomas
subjective, 59
universality, 327
to use things, 406
natural sciences, 5, 115, 178, 196
economics, 163
natural scientists, 2, 45
nature, xii, 3, 6, 25, 26, 66, 93, 103, 105, 313, 392
‘pullinge of nature to peeces’, 113
according to reason. See Aquinas
after nature, 67
and economy, 12
as cause, 240
as gold. See gold
as necessity, 83
asperity of, 89
beauty of, 46
beyond, 353
boundaries of, 179
bounds of, 112
Comenius’s definition of, 111
concept of, 1
constitution of human, 101
continuity in, 216
corporeal matter, 67
course of, 238
courted, 118
deciphering the Author of, 221
deconstruction of, 120, 224
desacralisation, 171, 184
design of, 2
designer of. See God
distance from moral or religious accounts, 166
divine and material, 112
divine artistry, 46
dominion of, 2, 113
Earth Stewardship, 3
economic possibilities, 198
Empire over, 1
enchantment/disenchantment, 184
exaggeration of resources. See Boyle
feminized, 112
fixed abundance, 269
force of, 266
Genesis 1
26–31, 176
given, 99
goodness of, 46
hidden in, 56
History of, 130
holistic conception, 226
human, 1, 25, 167, See self-preservation
human body, xi
idea of, 182
image of God. See, agent intellect
imitation, extraction, muliplication. See Boyle
immanent in, 220
instinct of, 147
instruction of Christians, 197
know, master and command, 199
light of nature, xi
management of. See Boyle
manipulation and exploitation, 119
mastering nature, 3
metaphysical foundations, 243
minuscule, 209
multiplication of, 219
multiplication of goods of, 169
naturalness, 11
nature as a sacred space, 1
necessary, 4
necessities of, 94
objective, 272
of a man, 267
of a person, 309
part of, 4
personification of, 178, 239
philosophy of, 69
physical, 315
physicalist idea, 5
possibilities, 183
preservation of, 87
priest of, 195
prior to nature, 67
productions, 199, 211, 241
range, anatomize & ransack, 118, 197
ransack nature, 3
rational, 264
re-maker of, 220
removing boundaries of, 241
resisting, 357
restless, 199
right of, 101
right to material things in, 89
sacred notion of, 12
scarcity of goods, 263
semi-deity, 240
service to chemistry, 183
solution, 167
spirit of, 112
spiritual, 73
strict, 71
study of, 110
subjected to human beings, 165
superfluous language about, 222
the nature of the thing, 39
theologian of, 217
transcending nature, 67
understand, 56
undo, 217
unity of human nature, 11
utilitarian possibilities of, 241
virtue of, 112
volatility, 219
voluptuous, 200
vulgar notion of, 240
way to God, 177
workings of, 113
nature of the thing, 56, 64, 116, 174, 193
intrinsical limitations, 99
Lord of. See God
Navigation Acts, 126, 129, 132, 211
‘amoral stance’. See Worsley
first Navigation Act, 105
The Advocate. See Worsley
necessaries, 118, 197, 199, 407
good life, 299
Necessaries and Delights, but Instructions. See Boyle
slaves, 331
necessaries of life, 406, 410
The Nasirean Ethics, 303
necessary, 51, 86, 90, 115, 153
appetite, 83
cannot be otherwise, 70
cause, 70
causes, 51, 65, 99
commanded by the magistrate, 153
conclusion of conscience. See Sanderson
connections, 316
definition in the Two Tracts, 254
for salvation, 380
for sustenance of life, 192
indifferent matters, 254
knowledge, 106
peace and defence, 88
punishment, 158
quantity for survival, 89
right for security anad survival, 88
salvation, 80
submission, 100
sufficient, 103
things indifferent, 244
use of the Commonwealth, 161
necessitarianism, 50, 71, 74, 82, 226, 273
ethical, 1
necessities, 1, 6, 9, 11, 14, 15, 25, 31, 46, 49–51, 56, 74, 75, 87, 97, 98, 139, 198, 272, 328, 394, 407, See freedom
absence of thinking, 390
appropriation of, 410
Avicenna. See Avicenna
basic, 53, 85
beyond, 117
Bible, Greek and Arabic traditions, 279
causal, 4, 7, 66, 153
‘city for pigs’, 298
compelled to flee, 396
competition for, 298
constant and contingent, 87
correct reasoning about, 92
cosmological order of, 91
of a diviner light. See Hooker Richard
different meanings of. See Hobbes
doubts about the law, 161
existential, 81
free, 100
freedom and, 55
freedom from necessity, 51
of government, 250
guiding principle of Creation, 57
hand of God, 116
human, 86
of happiness, 395
human beings’ free will, 104
human necessities, xi, 5
human physical, 75
itself, 273
Jesus, 95
of joint-stocks, 385
judge of, 95
judgment of the means, 92
King judge of. See Rex v Hampden
lack of power, 76
Manufactures of Necessitie, 133
metaphysical category, 68
metaphysics of, 53, 136, 137
metaphysics of mechanical. See metaphysics
money, 374
of the nation, 380
natural, 53, 167, See also natural rights
of nature, 57, 76, 81, 87, 88, 90, 127
necessary doctrines, 38
necessary order, 61
necessitated, 63
necessitated voluntary actions, 51
no degrees, 70
no of sinning, 399
non-necessities, 115
no reasoning against, 364
of obedience, 159
patrons of, 55
pejorative connotation, 85
philosopher of, 71
philosophy of, 52
political economy of, 1
‘of the present case’, 159
preservation of life, 390
principle of, 57, 75, 87, 94
principle of causal necessity, 146
professor of, 171
of the publick, 416
of Reformation, 108
Relief of Humane. See Hartlib Samuel
right moral decision, 380
scepticism, 391
self-evident, 68
ship money, 95
of the state, 313
theology, 68
theology and philosophy, 100
Traders and labourers. See greed
turmoil of non-necessities, 115
ultimate. See sovereign
unifying effect, 268
unnecessary, 50
of voluntary actions, 97
necessity of magistrate and laws
will of God, 251
need, 6, 77, 110
all are equal by means of, 308
and natural rights, 86
Avicennean cosmology, 298
basic, 85, 310
cosmological vision of, 275
children, 404
depoliticization of, 297
equalise, 308
ethics of, 176
family of humans, 301
gold and silver, 110
human faculties, 391
human nature, 71
in the universe, 308
increase of, 269
material. See commonwealth
‘Needy men’. See Hobbes
of human nature. See Hobbes
physical, 5
principle of motion, 86
rule people’s behaviour, 374
signification of, 273
supplies, 95
the pain of, 406
union of human beings, 298
needs and necessities of life, 268
Neoplatonism, xii, 5, 19–31, 35, 59, 68, 93, 108, 121, 149, 274, 301, 318, 398
Neoplatonic sources, 45
Neotestamentarian, 40, 114, 116, 419
Netherlands, 106
New England, 196
New England Company, 208
New Jersey, 389
new science
financial revolution, 383
New Testament, 116
Newcastle Marquess of, 55
Newton Isaac, 172
nonconformism, 105
nutrition, 289
obedience, 95
active and passive, 256
Anglican, 158
civil laws, 99
external obedience to the law, 157
for conscience sake, 259
holder of the sword, 159
passive civil, 159
rational and free agent, 182
refusal, 99
to conscience, 249
to positive law, 140
to the Conqueror, 158
to the law, 103, 156–161
obligation, 27
law, 154
moral, 82, 83
Necessity, Convenience, and Inclination, 415
political, 37, 100
positive law, 256
to avoid conflict, 158
universalist, 327
occasionalism, 217, 232
Ockham William of, 54, 70, 80
nominalism, 74
oeconomia
Arabic, 301
of nutriment, 290
oeconomy, xi, 44, 165, 213
designer of nature, 166
new oeconomy, 45
of God’s governance, 166
of the nation, 319
of the universe, 219
physical world, 319
oeconomy of nature, 165, 166, 171, 175, 179, 212, 220–222, 319
system of mechanical forces, 179
officia humanitatis, 121
officina humanitatis, 121
oikonomia
environment, 242
Oldenburg Henry, 106
Oliver St. John
Rex v. Hampden, 95
ontology
reductionist, 70
ultrarealist, 63
Oresme Nicholas of, 292
Orientalism, 36
outward man, 249
Oxford, 35, 69, 125, 138, 139, 143, 245, 263, 276, 282, 318, 329, 361
medicine, 277
Oxford Experimental Philosophy Club, 126
Palatine The, 113
panem et circenses, 85
Paracelsus, 277
Paradise, 181
animals, 192
Paradise on earth, 214
Paris, 55, 209
Parisian theologians, 36, 103, 190, 398
Parisian theology, 58, 66
Parliament, 160
convocation 1625, 142
Parliamentary Commissioners, 139
participation
natural law, 150
particular woman or man
agent intellect, 149
particulars, 112
passions
inexhaustible, 189
mastering of, 187
past theological period, 393
patent from the King, 169
pater familias, 295
and moneylending, 295
patriarchalism, 37, 42, 45
Patriarcha. See Filmer Sir Robert
women, 43
patriotism
investment, 323
patrons of liberty, 245
peace, 87
command to seek, 88
commonwealth, 94
fundamental Law of Nature, 90
is good. See Hobbes
obligation to live in, 160
peaceful living, 86
peace and security, 52
Penn William, 385
Pennsylvania, 389
people
‘needy and declining’, 346
welfare of, 274
Pereira Benito Jesuit, 70
perplexity, 255–259
Gratian Decretum, 257
Petty William, 126, 173, 206, 207, 357, 385
A Treatise of Taxes, 345
philosopher’s stone, 113, 114, 208
philosophers-physicians, 272, 273
materialism and pragmatism, 298
the dignity of life, 279
philosophy of nature, 57, 75, 79, 118, 167, 168, 208, 318
physical body, 324
physical laws of motion, 227
physicalism, 84, 100, 175, 275, 287. See Hobbes
plantations, 42, 105, 127, 130, 202, See Worsley
Authority of the state, 128
beneficial to the Public, 129
cosmopolitan, 129
foreigners, 128
increase the trade, 129
nationalist turn, 129
patents, 128
Plantation project, 128
Planter, 201
regulation of. See Worsley
the poor, 129
transplantation of manufacturers, 134
Plantations Duty Act, 126
planters
English in Ireland, 205
Plato, 288, 289
Republic, 298
pleasure, 183, 192, 199
human senses, 401
value of. See Boyle
Pocock J.G.A., 17, 19, 30, 47
polis, 41, 297, 300
political
needs, 71
political authority, 326
political economy, 173, 195, 389
histories of, 7
imitation of nature, 357
political philosopher, 45
political philosophy, 64, 82, 104, See Hobbes Thomas
traditional, 75
political theology, 85
political theory, 89
politics
Avicenna, 307
science of, 72
Pollexfen John, 381
poor, 125, 127, 134, 180, 201, 328, 331
cheap medical remedies, 198
idleness, 347
Pope Gregory XXV, 142
Pope Paul V, 142
popular government
deprivation, 44
dissent, 44
possession
of exterior things natural, 193
possessive individualism, 40, 415
critique of, 91
postlapsarian weakness. See postlapsarian history
potential intellect, 148
Potter William, 108, 361
Key of Wealth, 351–355
paper money, 352
poverty, 43, 44, 107, 177, 400
power, 85
absolute, 193
active, 69
causal, 182
common, 94
dangerous divisions of, 96
economical, 41
endowments of, 182
legislative, 137
and liberty, 99
limited to the public good, 417
moral power, 39
natural, 149
of a major part, 43
of determining rites and laws, 157
of the sovereign, 93
on one Man or one Assembly, 94
physical, 76
physical world, 237
plenitude of the human lawgiver, 159
political, 41
powers. See Aquinas
powers activity in nature, 163
real, 181
soul over body, 396
sovereign, 37, See sovereign
supreme in every commonwealth, 251
the people, 43
to do good, 417
to use, 193
Will to Power, 3
powers, qualities and forces, 315
practical wisdom, 81, 82
pragmatism, 4
praise of rhetoric, 97
predestination, 34, 56, 141
conditional, 144
divine decree of, 144
not irresistible, 143
preservation, 327
of mankind, 407
of property
mutual, 416
of society, 89
priestcraft, 32
Prince Palatine, 114
principle of non-contradiction, 63
private, 26
Corporations, 113
interest, no foundation of law of nature, 268
owners, 107
property, 39, 46, 409
property, natural, 294
property, origin of, 410
reason, 82
venture, 128
probabiliorism, 146
probabilism, 146
professional moneylenders, 367
profit, 9, 128, 174, 243, 353
of the enterpreneur, 201
public, 160
profitable, 100, 169, 183
proper object of desires’, 400
property, 39, 43, 44, 46
in one’s person, 398
inherited, 41
life, liberty and estate, 409
lives, liberties and estates, 415
principles of, 43
property rights, 405
ambiguous role, 398
Protestant, 105, 110
French, 128
Protestant piety, 121
Protestantism, 122, 205
providence, 100, 112, 188, 193
providential care of Nature, 112
source of knowledge, 235
prudence
agent intellect, 150
human beings universally, 192
oeconomical, 174
Prussia, 109
Pseudo-Aristotle
Oeconomia, 291, 294
Pseudo-Galenic
Yconomia, 294
Public, 120
primacy of, 320
service, 120
public administrator, 329
public advantage, 272
public debt
war, 381
public good, 7, 10, 12, 244, 250, 326, 328
and money, 408
common project, 409
executive power, 417
nation and government, 413
theory of, 324
public interest, 263, 269
foundation, 271
public jurisdiction, 137
public order
foundation, 271
public realm, 121
public reason, 254
magistrate’s embodiment, 261
public sphere, 46
public spirit, 75
Pufendorf Samuel, 33, 408
pure essences, 59
Puritan, 44, 121
Epicurean Boyle, 198
radicalism, 137
rebel, 55
Revolution, 109
theologian, 297
Puritanism, 51
Puritans, 138, 177
English world view, 180
ethics, 176
feelings, 261
matters indifferent, 245
nonconformists, 256
perplexity, 256
religious and universalist aims, 131
spiritualism, 185
purpose
thing, 116
quantity, 89
Quinquarticular controversy, 141
Quintilian, 97
Quis iudicabit, 418
Ranelagh Lady, 106, 169
rational oeconomy of nature, 222
rationalism, 20, 71, 111
real estate, 305
Reanudot Théophraste, 124
reason
and desire, 92
authority of, 38
contents of moral law. See Boyle
correct reasoning, 89, 222
correct use of, 392
dictates of, 82, 186
discourse of, 154
discursive, 222
government of, 87
injustice, 89
intellectual authority, 253
law of nature, 87
liberty, 100
mediocrity, 82
moral, 34
natural, 68, 101, 407
postlapsarian, 225
practical, 86, 153
Publique, 82
right, 187
subjectivization, 272
reason of state
economy, 331
Recoinage Controversy, 358, 369
Locke’s moral argument, 378
reform
‘conversion of the Jewes’, 130
economic, 129
personal, 129
Reformation, xi, 91, 130, 138, 145
long Reformation, 23, 31, 337
of lawes, 130
of medicine, 212
Reformed individual, 5
wild, 157
Reformers, 14, 31, 105, 107–111, 119, 126, 131, 135, 186, 214, 243, 328, 331, 383, 389
liberal, 128
naïveté, 328
religious ideals, 352
utopian outlook, 180
zeal for economic prosperity, 172
Regimens of Health, 290
Regimens of the Mind, 287
moral value of the mind, 177
self-cure, 34
religion, 56, 78
civil, 49
not indifferent, 251
religious rigorism, 58
Renaissance, 164, 258, 275, 284, 342
Avicenna, 306
ethical perfection, 296
lawyers, 281
responsibility, 24
Restoration, 31, 79, 106, 109, 115, 125, 137, 161, 247, 256, 349
Revelation, 22, 73, 155, 181, 222, 232, 407
light of, 223
Rex v Hampden, 95
riches
natural and artificial, 192
private, 180
right
directly from God. See Gerson
with God over one’s body, 396
individualist, 327
morality of, 176
of nature, 114
reduction of, 89
right reason, 86
moral conception, 187
shift in thinking about, 228
transformation of in 17th England, 222
right to all things
to lay down, 88
right to everything, 87, See state of nature
Robert Boyle, xii
Robinson Henry
England’s Safety in Trades Encrease, 349
robust government
Two Treatises of Government, 249
Roman philosophy, 65
Rome, 186, 206
Royal African Company, 329
royal patents, 107
royal prerogative, 95
Royal Society, 37, 106, 198, 384, 401
Founding Fellows, 209
goals, 171
utilitarianism, 168
royalism, 52
royalist, 41, 43, 139
rule of law, 154
Rump Parliament, 38, 105, 113, 127
Rye House Plot, 331
safety, 7
safety and security, 271
safety of trade
economic and moral, 350
Saint Amour William of, 102
Salamanca, 142
Salisbury Bishop of, 120
Salmasius
profits from the poor, 335
salvation, 146
Sanderson Robert, 36, 82, 256
‘spirit of accommodation’, 158
Anglican, 138
biographer, Izaak Walton, 137
Calvinist, 137
casuistic teaching, 139
de Arriba Variarum, 141–144
De Obligatione Conscientiae, 138
eirenic politician, 161
Ethical School, 138
fearful perplexity, 259
human nature, 137
metaphysics, 137
political thinker, 147
political treatise, 139
Professor of Divinity, 139
Puritanism, 137
Several Cases of Conscience Discussed in Ten Lectures in the Divinity School at Oxford, 136
social radicalism, 137
synderesis, 147
Santori Santorio, 277
De statica medicina, 277
weighing chair, 277
satire, 122
Saumaise Claude (Salmasius), 334
Scaliger Julius Caesar, 79
scarcity, 167, 369, 380
dangerous, 90
Essays on the Law of Nature, 270
scepticism, 1, 22, 31–38, 40, 45, 51, 136, 140, 152, 162, 169, 185
antidote to, 67
of reason, 34
religious. See Hobbes
scholastics
supernaturall philosophy, 67
Schumpeter Joseph
History of Economic Analysis, 365
science, 31
advancement of, 392
agent of the economy, 194
application of, 173
civil science, 92, 93
cult of, 328
economic. See Boyle
empirical, xi, 48
investment in, 169
lawfulness of usury, 351
love of, 121
multiplier, 163
natural sciences, xii, 12
new, 49, 126, 153, 359
of the heart, 148
path to human flourishing, 108
politics of, 12
profitable, 171
religion, 187
scientific improvement, 108
scientificism, 1
spokesman. See Boyle
useful and profitable, 174
usefulness of, 198
utility of, 331
science applied, 211
science of economics
emerging, 323
Science of Morality, 33
Scientific Revolution, xi, xii, 2, 3, 7, 10, 12, 15, 17, 18, 33, 34, 45, 118, 164, 169, 171, 172, 175, 178, 186, 187, 201, 203, 206, 208, 220, 227, 233, 234, 235, 239, 378, 420, 421
English, 22
scientist, 105, 114, 315
lordship and dominion of nature, 217
martyrdom, 196
mediators of knowledge. See economy
priest, 196
The Usefulnesse manifesto, 198
Scottish Presbyterians
royalism, 160
Scotus Duns, 54
Scripture, 23, 38, 41, 80
necessary, 80
Scriptural, 180
Selden John, 34, 38
authority required, 229
right reason, 228
self-interest
Christian origin, 395
Locke’s opposition to, 322
selfish desire, 379
self-preservation, 42, 50, 86, 90, 274, 408
conservation, 83
of the commonwealth. See sovereign
power of, 101
preservation of others enjoy, 83
right of, 87, 88
survival, 71
senna
cultivation of, 169
Sennert Daniel, 175, 278
sense of humanity, 270
sense of touch
intelligence of human beings. See Albert the Great
Senses and Reason, 406
servants
Christian, 203
Irish extraction, 203
settlers
Cromwellian, 363
Shaftesbury circle, 263
Shaftesbury First Earl of, 107
shipping
Dutch, 133
English, 133
silver, 48, 110, 122, 363, 379, 412
Silver and gold
universal means of payment, 373
sin, 137, 326
bad use of things, 191
decision of casuists, 147
effects according to Arminianism, 164
original, 145, 411
Puritans, 138
will cannot but sin. See Boyle
Sitllingfleet Edward, 21
Skinner Quentin, 84, 97
slavery, 398
critique of, 115
opposition to liberty, 97
pragamatic support, 330
slaves, 41, 301
African, 203
Barbados, 202
power of death and life, 330
ran away, 203
slavery, 43
suicide general, 203
Smith Adam, 310, 414
benevolence & interest, 310
economy of desire, 377
sober, 127
sociability, 5, 91
exhausted sociability of trust, 91
natural, 165
natural bond, 25
stressed sociability. See Leviathan
sociable
coffee-houses, 385
social enterprise, 121
social welfare, 124
society
internet, 122
just, 181
needs, 86
of mutual service, 124
origins of, 268
peace and safety, 159
tranquility and safety, 160
Society of Reformation and Correspondence, 121
Solomon, 115
Somers Sir John, 381
Lord Keeper, 328
soul
light. See Aristotle
South Sea Bubble, 383
sovereign, 82, 84, 88, 93
Assemblies, 94
civil, 103
Civill Soveraign, 93
discipline the people, 96
judge of necessity, 254
judgment, 95
judgment about needs, 86
Office, 95
rights of God over the Creation, 238
rights, ex rei natura, 94
source of rights, 94
sovereign’s decision, 93
sovereignty, 26, 99
absolute, 96
de facto sovereign, 53
Divine Right, 39
foundation, 403
over nature, 199
scientific concept of, 84
submission to, 52
superior and absolute, 84
supreme legislative authority, 56
speculation
rise of, 322
speculator, 105
Spinoza, 57
Spirit of God, 210
spiritual soul, 69
state
anarchical, 86
balance, 47
body of the, 35
distempers to the Body, 129
foundation of, 302
interest in the plantation, 128
land leases. See Pruvost
Machiavellian, 47
modern, 47
necessity of, 274
Principall tradere, 129
public life, 82
theory of, 46, See Hobbes
state debt, 368
state of grace, 110
state of nature, 50, 86, 88, 160, 167, 267, 326
Plunder, Slaughter, 161
stock market, 320
stockjobbing, 384
buying more than all, 388
friends, 386
possibilities of vice, 383
profitability of companies, 388
putting upon, 387
refusing, 387
teaching the public, 388
to buy or sell, 386
virtuous and vicious, 386
stocks, 380
Stoics, 186, 287, 289
Stop of the Exchequer, 367
Strauss Leo, 32, 75, 326
Stubbe Henry, 36
study of resurrection of the body, 214
Suarez Francisco, 41, See Hobbes
sublapsarian, 141
substances, 175, 314
Aristotelian, 179
sugar canes, 201
sugar Masters of, 211
sugar mills, 202
supererogatory actions, 50
superfluous, 90
supernatural
invocation of, 236
Sydenham Thomas, 281, 282
synderesis, 147
simplification, 145
system, 46
contraction of. See taxes
systemic connections, 323
Tadbīr al-Manzil
science of household administration, 293
taxes, 130, 362
farm and collection, 368
general assembly, 96
Nutritive faculty, 96
right of sovereignty, 94
superfluity, 127
Taylor Jeremy
Ductor Dubitantium, 146
technology, 173, 201
Test Act The, 105
the existent, 62
The Machiavellian Moment, 17, 19
theologians
Anglican, 144
Catholic, 142, 144
Reformed, 144
theological philosophy., 97
theology, 53
Anglican, 224
independent to. See Hobbes
obscure, 45
of equality, 325
reformed, 137
scholastic, 318
theological framework, 68
unacceptable. See Hobbes
utopian, 4, 166, 194
voluntarist, 81
theory of money, 379
things
using or doing, 192
things indifferent, 56
thinking individual, 72
toleration, 30
religious, 274
Tönnies Ferdinand, 69
Towerson Gabriel
1661 letter, 265
trade, 108, 122, 129
and reputation, 305
balance of, 48
calls for money, 374
care of a shopkeeper, 132
care of policy, 133
centrality of foreign trade, 132
cycle of, 319
defence of, 385
foreign, 135
global, 134
imperial, 171
interest in Holland, 132
internal, 48
Islam, 294
monopoly of, 113
multiplying, 354
Reformation of, 351
rules of, 132
safety and defence of the nation, 134
scientific study of, 131
shipping, 132
stop, 371
studies of, 357
Universal, 132
value chains. See Worsley
vigorous pursuit of, 214
wheels of, 320
trades
multiplication of, 195
tradition of care, 405
transformation of the spirit, 214
transhumanism, 220
transmutation, 218
base metal, 219
of any thing, 220
of camphor, 214
Treasury
Lord Ashley, 367
Treasury Commissioners
burden, 368
tree of Paradise, 110, 190
multiple uses, 191
Trevor-Roper
Hugh, 109–110
trust, 91, 321, 343
truth, 111
evidence of, 152
‘inferior sort of truths’, 188
necessary truths, 137
objective, 92
of the thing, 157
path to, 223
scientific. See judgment, Hobbes
unconceived alternatives, 236
understanding
path to the Designer, 227
uneasiness
motivation for action, 393
unemployed, 328
unemployment, 107
Uniformity Act of, 247, 261
universal
light of nature. See Hooker Richard
universal and the particular, 60
universal harmony, 121
unnecessary, 86, 110, 115
unum necessarium, 14, 86, 102, 108, 114, 116
use
of reason, will and goods, 194
usury, 33, 294
‘need’ and ‘profit’, 350
16th economic controversy, 337
Acts against, 339–341
Albert the Great, 335
alternatives, ‘A Certain Myne of Gold, 352
Aquinas Thomas, 336
Aristotle Politics, 337
Church’s anti-usury campaigns, 382
condemnation, 337
damage and fraud, 334
damage to Queen’s Custom, 339
definition, 350
destroyed the community, 335
disappearence, 334
Divines’ consultation, 338
England’s Safety in Trades Encrease, 349–351
Filmer Sir Robert, 344, 345
foro conscientiae, 350
good laws, 348
Henry of Ghent, 336
Jewish Law, 344
Jews, 345
Laws, 346
lenders’ necessities, 345
loss, 341
malum in se, 340
moral law and natural equity, 348
morality of, 48
need for traffick, 342
pious Anglican, 343
religious scandal, 338
Robert Sanderson, 347
Rome, 345
ruine of all commerce, 351
Sir William Fleetwood, 339–340
theology and law, 338
transformation into interest, 338
unnaturall use, 349
Venice, 345
vice of, 339
wheels of crime, 343
William Petty, 345
workers tricked, 342
utilitarianism, 195
and utopia, 121
Avicenna, 306
exploitators and victims, 204
of Boyle’s work, 172
utilitarian, 116, 164
utilitarian economics, 272
utilitarian principles, 34
‘utility of man’, 183
utility of slavery, 204
utility
physicians, 291
private, 26
utopia, 86, 169, 334
utopian
pragmatism, 196
theology, 243
Valla Giorgio
De rebus expetendis et fugiendis, 295
Valla Lorenzo, 65
critical philology, 65
van Helmont Jan Baptist, 277
Vane Henry Sir, 107
vanquished
survival, 412
Vigelius Nicolaus, 117
Vilanova Arnau de, 292
Virginia, 39, 127, 128
virtues, 45, 86, 92, 177
dangers to, 45
in Boyle, 183
innate. See Albert the Great
morality of, 46, 176
narrowed down, 178
perfection of desires, 150
virtue, 183
virtuous
physical body, 150
virtuous act, 192
Vives Luis, 111
voluntarism, 20, 25, 44
in morality, 232
theological, 84
voluntarist theology, 225, See Sanderson
of power, 182
von Böhm-Bawerk Eugen, 335
Wallis John, 126
war, 25, 85, 88, 160
captives in Barbados, 203
of the greedy, 90
perpetual, 89
war economy, 381
Warrender Howard, 84
wealth, 43, 118, 119, 127
aquisition by philosophers. See Boyle
in Bryson, 305
obsession, 269
public, 180
respectable acquisition, 180
Weber Max, 177
Webster Charles, 31, 105
wellbeing, 7
West Plantations, 349
Whewell William, 138
Whig politicians, 383
Whiggery, 32
Whiggish perspective, 247
Wilkins John, 126
will of God
measure of good, 154
will of the prince, 260
William and Mary, 332, 382
wisdom of the spirit, 213
Wood Robert, 361
Wood Thomas, 35
Workmanship, 170, 198
world
as a fabrick, 242
as a Ship, 196
attachment to the, 59
divine order of, 24
double end. See Boyle
eternal, 112
Fabrick of, 182
fallen apart, 162
God’s active involvement, 217
great Automaton, 315
human’s magazine, 199
investigation ‘of Man’, 195
material, 45
mechanical, 4
physical existence of, 72
physical source of truth, 221
regulation and governance, 216
sacrament, 196
Temple, 119, 197
‘use of Man’, 195
Worsley Benjamin, 105–107, 114, 121, 125, 179, 205, 331, 361
administrative legislation, 126
The Advocate, 127, 129
civil servant, 131
eternal life on earth, 214
fellowship with Boyle, 121
medicate the air, 213
mentor of Boyle, 118, 205
nationalistic inclinations, 131
nonconformism, 256
rivalry with W. Petty, 206
‘Woorsteley’s-Propositions’, 127, 128, 129
Worsley’s letters, 208
worthy gentleman, 384
Wren Christopher, 126
Zouch Richard
Elementa Jurisprudentiae, 145

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  • Mónica García-Salmones Rovira, University of Helsinki
  • Book: The Necessity of Nature
  • Online publication: 16 February 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009332149.016
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  • Mónica García-Salmones Rovira, University of Helsinki
  • Book: The Necessity of Nature
  • Online publication: 16 February 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009332149.016
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  • Index
  • Mónica García-Salmones Rovira, University of Helsinki
  • Book: The Necessity of Nature
  • Online publication: 16 February 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009332149.016
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