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Thomas White (1593–1676) was an English Roman Catholic priest and scholar, known as a theologian, censured by the Inquisition, and also as a philosopher contributing to scientific and political debates.


Life

Thomas White was the son of Richard White of Hutton, Essex and Mary, daughter of Edmund Plowden. He was educated at
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and Douai College; and subsequently at Valladolid. He taught at Douai, and was president of the
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. Ultimately, he settled in London. His role in English Catholic life was caricatured by the hostile
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, and John Sergeant. In fact the
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was controlled by a Blackloist faction, in the period 1655 to 1660.


Works

He wrote around 40 theological works, around which the "Blackloist controversy" arose, taking its name from his alias Blackloe (Blacklow, Blacloe). The first philosophical work of Thomas Hobbes, which remained unpublished until 1973, was on the ''De mundo dialogi tres'' of White, written in 1642. The ''Institutionum peripateticarum'' (1646, English translation ''Peripatetical Institutions'', 1656) represented itself as an exposition of the 'peripatetic philosophy' of Kenelm Digby. It was a scientific work, showing acceptance of the motion of the Earth and ideas of
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, but disagreeing with him on the cause of the tides. In 1654 he produced an edition of the ''Dialogues'' of the controversialist William Rushworth (Richworth). ''The Grounds of Obedience and Government'' (1655) was written during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. Its implicit message, the Blackloist line for Catholics, was submission to the ''de facto'' ruler. The political aim was to secure an accommodation, and religious tolerance for Catholicism, and this was particularly controversial since the achievement of the objective might be at the cost of the access of Jesuits to England. He replied to Joseph Glanvill's ''The Vanity of Dogmatizing'' (1661), an attack on Aristotelians, with ''Scire, sive sceptices'' (1663).
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, ''A History of English Philosophy'' (2007 edition), p. 101.
* ''De mundo dialogi tres'', Parisii, 1642. * ''Institutionum peripateticarum ad mentem... Kenelmi equitis Digbaei pars theorica, item Appendix theologica de origine mundi, authore Thoma Anglo ex Albiis East-Saxonum'', Lugduni, 1646. * ''Euclides physicus, sive De principiis naturæ Stoecheidea E'' Londini, 1657. * ''Euclides metaphysicus, sive, de principiis sapientiae, stoecheida E'' Londini, 1658.


References


Further reading

* Hobbes, Thomas. ''Critique du De Mundo de Thomas White'' (1642), edited by Jean Jacquot and Harold Whitmore Jones, Paris: Vrin, 1973; English translation by H. W. Jones, Thomas White's De mundo examined, Bradford: Bradford University Press, 1976. * . * .


External links


Galileo Project page
{{DEFAULTSORT:White, Thomas 1593 births 1676 deaths English philosophers 17th-century English Roman Catholic priests People from Hutton, Essex