Concentrating on the thought of Canada's major scientists, philosophers, and clerics - men such as William Dawson and Daniel Wilson, John Watson and W.D. LeSeur, G.M. Grant and Salem Bland - A Disciplined Intelligence begins by reconstructing the central strands of intellectual and moral orthodoxy prevalent in Anglo-Canadian colleges on the eve of the Darwinian revolution. These include Scottish common sense philosophy and the natural theology of William Paley. The destructive impact of evolutionary ideas on that orthodoxy and the major exponents of the new forms of social evolution - Spencerian and Hegelian alike - are examined in detail. By the twentieth century the centre of Anglo-Canadian thought had been transformed by what had become a new, evolutionary orthodoxy. The legacy of this triumphant intellectual movement, British idealism, was immense. It helped to destroy Protestant denominationalism, provide the philosophical core of the social gospel movement, and constitute a major force behind the creation of the United Church of Canada. Throughout the nineteenth century and continuing into the twentieth, however, the moral imperative in Anglo-Canadian thought remained a constant presence.
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- 0773521410 9780773568921
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- M45 2001eb
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Title 5
- Copyright 6
- Table of Contents 9
- Preface 11
- Introduction to the Carleton Library Edition 15
- 1. Education and Intellect 37
- Intellectual Anarchy 41
- The Institutionalization of Concern 45
- Education as Disposition 49
- The Basis of a Liberal Education 52
- 2. The Colonial Philosophers 59
- The Scottish Legacy 60
- James George and the Web of Gossamer 68
- William Lyall: Intellect, the Emotions, and Man's Moral Nature 80
- The Apogee of Common Sense 88
- 3. The Uses of Natural Theology 95
- The Prevalence of Paley 98
- James Beaven and the Eye of Faith 101
- Dr. Bovell's Quadrilateral Mind 109
- Sequela 121
- 4. The Veils of Isis 129
- The Veils of Isis 131
- The Reception of Darwin in Canada 135
- Support from the Flanks 146
- Christian Guardians 152
- Man's Place in Nature 161
- 5. A Critical Spirit 171
- The Spectre of Doubt 173
- The Critical Intellect 177
- Freedom and Concern 182
- Science, Ethics, and Evolution 190
- A Defence of Modern Thought 194
- 6. The Secret of Hegel 207
- The Rejection of Common Sense 209
- John Watson and the Secret of Hegel 217
- Science and the Idealist Alternative 222
- Conscience and Community 231
- 7. The Sadness and Joy of Knowledge 241
- Faith through Reason 242
- Pastoral Epistles 248
- The Sacred, the Secular, and the Social Gospel 252
- Religion through Sociology 260
- Epilogue 265
- Abbreviations 269
- Notes 271
- A Bibliographical Note 311
- A Bibliographical Note, 2001 315
- Index 319
