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Yet he denies that doing so authorizes pardoning a penitent wrongdoer.

Abstract: Spinoza shares with almost all apologists for forgiveness the idea that laying down one’s resentment of a wrong, contempt for a wrongdoer, and overcoming “bondage” to hatred, must be a primary ethical aim.

KEITH GREEN (East Tennessee State University), Forgiveness, Pardon, and Punishment in Spinoza’s Ethical Theory and “True Religion” The monadic model can account for at once the tensions between Milton’s substantial and theological principles of unity, between his good matter and wild chaos, and between his monistic vision and images of corporeal and incorporeal beings. The ancient philosophy of the monad as reformulated by Giordano Bruno and developed by the Conway Circle, I argue, provides a pertinent framework for Milton to negotiate the theological implications of the new matter. Third, Milton’s monism seems to contradict his apparent distinction between corporeal and spiritual beings as well. Second, in conceiving of the substantial principle as both good matter and wild chaos, Milton appears to posit two kinds of primary matter, which runs counter to his allegedly monistic outlook. The priority of the primal matter seems to directly challenge the putative primacy of the divine deity. Meanwhile, he also represents God as the primary fountain of beings. First, in both his epic poem Paradise Lost and theological treatise The Christian Doctrine, Milton depicts a motive and generative matter and regards it as the substantial principle that produces all manners of life.

Abstract: This essay seeks to resolve three conceptual puzzles raised by Milton’sconception of the new modern matter.

MINGJUN LU (University of Toronto), Implications of the New Modern Matter: A Monadic Approach to Milton’s Philosophy and Theology It also takes into account current research coming from tangential fields, for instance studies on Fludd’s publisher or on philosophers such as Michael Maier, with whom he is thought to have been closely associated. The aim of this article is to give scope for further research it collects contributions by previous scholars and adds details, corrects inaccuracies, identifies hitherto nameless (or misnamed) people with whom Fludd came into contact, and places he visited.

Scholars such as Johannes Rösche have recently added more details. Ron Heisler already observed that regrettably Huffman’s own account is not always accurate or complete.

As William Huffman rightly put it, “ne of the main problems confronting someone interested in Robert Fludd is the lack of information about his formative years, as well as about his later associations”. On the other hand, his life, network, and acquaintances have been investigated in much less detail. Abstract: In the last decades Robert Fludd’s philosophy has received increasing attention.LUCA GUARIENTO (University of Glasgow), Life, Friends, and Associations of Robert Fludd: A Revised Account

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