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Irish PhilosophyJohn Toland (1670-1722); scholar, unofficial diplomat, pamphleteer and controversialist; died in Putney, London on this day in 1722. <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/DIB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DIB</a> - <a href="https://www.dib.ie/biography/toland-john-a8584" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.dib.ie/biography/toland-john-a8584</a>Incendiary: John Toland and the birth of the Irish Enlightenment - <a href="https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2013/09/18/incendiary-toland/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2013/09/18/incendiary-toland/</a>He is buried at Church of St. Mary the Virgin in Putney (the scene of the Putney Debates, 1647). <a href="https://www.johntoland.com/2019/03/john-toland-his-life-and-times.html?m=1" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.johntoland.com/2019/03/john-toland-his-life-and-times.html?m=1</a> The tower of the church survives from that time (my photo) <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishPhilosophyOTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IrishPhilosophyOTD</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/JohnToland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JohnToland</a>

Irish PhilosophyComposer George Frideric Händel was born <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a> 1685 in Halle.Famously his "Messiah" was first performed in Dublin. A post on its performance (where Swift almost scuppered the whole thing) <a href="https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2013/04/13/swift-handels-messiah/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2013/04/13/swift-handels-messiah/</a>and on its anti-deist roots & the appeal of that in Ireland (anti-Toland) <a href="https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2018/04/13/words-messiah/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2018/04/13/words-messiah/</a><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Swift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Swift</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/JonathanSwift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JonathanSwift</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/JohnToland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JohnToland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Deism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Deism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/GeorgeFridericHandel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GeorgeFridericHandel</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishPhilosophyOTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IrishPhilosophyOTD</a>

Irish PhilosophyJohn Toland, born in Inishowen, Donegal <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/otd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#otd</a> 1670.DIB: <a href="https://www.dib.ie/biography/toland-john-a8584" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.dib.ie/biography/toland-john-a8584</a>Derry Journal on Toland & Pantheism - <a href="https://www.derryjournal.com/heritage-and-retro/heritage/john-toland-sean-eoghain-of-the-books-the-inishowen-founder-of-western-pantheism-3938903" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.derryjournal.com/heritage-and-retro/heritage/john-toland-sean-eoghain-of-the-books-the-inishowen-founder-of-western-pantheism-3938903</a>Incendiary: John Toland and the birth of the Irish Enlightenment - <a href="https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2013/09/18/incendiary-toland/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2013/09/18/incendiary-toland/</a><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/JohnToland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JohnToland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/pantheism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pantheism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishPhilosophyOTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IrishPhilosophyOTD</a>

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Irish PhilosophyJames Ussher died <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OTD</a> 1656. How Ussher claimed Patrick and the early Irish Church for the Church of Ireland (as did everyone else for their beliefs, including the Deist John Toland).Appropriating Patrick: Keating, Ussher, Toland and the Early Irish Church – <a href="https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2015/03/17/appropriating-patrick/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2015/03/17/appropriating-patrick/</a><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Patrick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Patrick</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishPhilosophyOTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IrishPhilosophyOTD</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/JamesUssher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JamesUssher</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/JohnToland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JohnToland</a>

Irish PhilosophyThis <a href="https://mas.to/@HistParl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@HistParl</a> post unfairly maligning <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Swords" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Swords</a> :) <a href="https://mas.to/@HistParl/109664408722516474" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://mas.to/@HistParl/109664408722516474</a> mentions the Molesworth family who controlled at least one seat in the borough for much of the 18th century. The featured image is of <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/RobertMolesworth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RobertMolesworth</a> who created the essential definition of an Old Whig, translated <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Francogallia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Francogallia</a> and wrote "An Account of Denmark", both historically useful account and extended attack on <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/PassiveObedience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PassiveObedience</a> and clerical control in politics. Also patron of <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/FrancisHutcheson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FrancisHutcheson</a> & <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/JohnToland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JohnToland</a>

Irish PhilosophyIncendiary: <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/JohnToland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JohnToland</a> and the birth of the <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishEnlightenment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IrishEnlightenment</a> – <a href="https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2013/09/18/incendiary-toland/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2013/09/18/incendiary-toland/</a><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishPhilosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IrishPhilosophy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Deism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Deism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Freethinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Freethinking</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/JohnLocke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JohnLocke</a>

Irish Philosophy<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishPhilosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IrishPhilosophy</a> and the <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/SouthSeaBubble" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SouthSeaBubble</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/JohnToland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JohnToland</a> lost all his money. He'd been so broke he'd had to use his patron <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/RobertMolesworth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RobertMolesworth</a>'s name as a guarantor to invest. <a href="https://www.dib.ie/biography/toland-john-a8584" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.dib.ie/biography/toland-john-a8584</a>Perhaps this & his own losses (plus his Old Whig principles) led <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/RobertMolesworth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RobertMolesworth</a> to call for the "contrivers...of the villanous South-Sea scheme" to be treated as those who killed their fathers in Ancient Rome: "tied in like manner in sacks, and thrown into the Thames.” <a href="https://www.econlib.org/book-chapters/chapter-ch-2-the-south-sea-bubble/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.econlib.org/book-chapters/chapter-ch-2-the-south-sea-bubble/</a>

Irish Philosophy<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/JohnToland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JohnToland</a> became the Republican Mythmaker via contacts he made in Dublin before he left in a hurry. His arrival had triggered much writing refuting his <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/ChristianityNotMysterious" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ChristianityNotMysterious</a> (and a series of letters between <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Locke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Locke</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/WilliamMolyneux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WilliamMolyneux</a>, which form the basis for the post below). This controversary was the trigger for the <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishEnlightenment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IrishEnlightenment</a>. Incendiary: John Toland and the birth of the Irish Enlightenment <a href="http://irishphilosophy.com/2013/09/18/incendiary-toland/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://irishphilosophy.com/2013/09/18/incendiary-toland/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishPhilosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IrishPhilosophy</a>

Irish PhilosophyThe previous picture (from wiki) is clearly supposed to be <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/JohnToland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JohnToland</a> but there's some doubt as to whether it is really him. He was also depicted in this satire of the divisions within the Established Church associated with "Milton's works". He edited these as part of a Whig programme to rehabilitate republican political philosophy for a constitutional monarchy. <a href="https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2016/05/24/toland-myth-maker/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2016/05/24/toland-myth-maker/</a>Image with Toland circled: <a href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-3419" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-3419</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishPhilosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IrishPhilosophy</a>

Irish Philosophy<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/JohnToland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JohnToland</a>, pamphleteer, controversialist, bogeyman of the Irish establishment was born in <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Inishowen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Inishowen</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Donegal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Donegal</a> 30 Nov 1670 <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OTD</a>. Wrote <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/ChristianityNotMysterious" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ChristianityNotMysterious</a>, had to flee Dublin when the book was ordered to be burned and the author sought. Wrote political tracts, inveigled himself into the Hanoverian Court (Sophia was wary, Toland wrote <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/LettersToSerena" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LettersToSerena</a> for her daughter). Lost his money in <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/SouthSeaBubble" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SouthSeaBubble</a>, died in Putney. Why no biopic? <a href="https://dib.ie/biography/toland-john-a8584" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://dib.ie/biography/toland-john-a8584</a><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishPhilosophyOTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IrishPhilosophyOTD</a>

Oisín Murphy-Lawless<a href="https://mastodon.ie/@Irishphilosophy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@Irishphilosophy</a> I have just discovered that Thomas Aikenhead, the last person in the U.K. to be executed for blasphemy, was an ‘avid reader’ who had allegedly read Toland’s Christianity Not Mysterious. His indictment is quite the read. <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#philosophy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/JohnToland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JohnToland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/ScottishHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScottishHistory</a>

Irish PhilosophyToland believed matter was "the source of life itself" but argued against Bayle's panpsychism (that the property of thinking is inherent in matter), though not successfully. Materialism and panpsychism (Bayle and Toland edition) <a href="https://wp.me/p25oy3-N" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://wp.me/p25oy3-N</a><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/TheModSquad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheModSquad</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/JohnToland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JohnToland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishPhilosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IrishPhilosophy</a>

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