Dear Administrator - don't know how to convert this, maybe you can. LVP ----- Original Message ----- From: Louanne Van Pelt<mailto:lounfritz@msn.com> Cc: Jacassidy22@aol.com<mailto:Jacassidy22@aol.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 12:46 PM Subject: Re: [DUTCH-COLONIES] The Spotted Cow or Bonte Koe Don't know how to convert this from RTF Judy - maybe you do. Lou Geulincx, Arnold Page 1 of 1 Geulincx, Arnold b. Jan. 31, 1624, Antwerp, Spanish Netherlands [now in Belgium] d. November 1669, Leiden, Neth. pseudonym PHlLARETUS, Flemish metaphysician, logician, and leading exponent of a philosophical doctrine known as occasional ism based on the work of Rene Descartes, as extended to include a comprehensive ethical theory . Geulincx studied philosophy and theology at the University of Louvain, where he became a professor in 1646. In 1658 he was dismissed, probably because of his sympathy with Jansenism, the Roman Catholic movement emphasizing man's sinful nature and dependency on God's grace for salvation. Taking refuge at leiden, in Holland, he adopted the strict, Jansen-Iike theology of John Calvin. In September 1658 he became a medical doctor and, in the following year, was authorized to lecture privately in philosophy for a few months. He lived in poverty until 1662, when he obtained a lectureship in logic at the University of leiden, where in 1665 he became professor extraordinary of philosophy and ethics. Geulincx's major works include Quaestiones Quodlibeticae (1653; "Miscellaneous Questions"), reedited by him at leiden as Saturnalia (1665); Logica ...Restituta (1662; "logic Restated"); and the ethical dissertation De Virtute (1665; "On Virtute"). After his death, his pupil C. Bontekoe published, under Geulincx's pseudonym, Philaretus, his six treatises on ethics, Gnothi Seauton (1615; "Know Thyself "). As Philaretus, Geulincx accepted the progression in Cartesian metaphysics from doubt to knowledge and from knowledge to God and affirmed the dominant role of the will in forming judgments. Geulincx, however, aimed to submit the will to the authority of reason. This "ethics of humility" reflects the author's Jansenism and Calvinism. In his Metaphysica Vera (1691; "True Metaphysics"), he disappointed Cartesian expectations that a scientific mastery of matter, life, and mind will develop and instead emphasized man's impotence before the transcendent Creator . The inspiration for Geulincx's attempt to complete Descartes's system came primarily from the writings of St. Augustine. The opposition between the incomprehensible Deity and his creation also formed the basis for Geulincx's doctrine of occasionalism: God uses the "occasion" of the body to produce various human attitudes. Though people may believe that they act unaided, God actually works within them to make their will effective. Geulincx's works have been collected as Arnoldi Geulinex Antverpiensis Opera Philosophica, 3 vol. ( 1891-93 ; "The Philosophical Works of Arnold Geulincx of Antwerp"). Copyright @ 1994-2001 Encyclopmdia Britannica, Inc. file:IIC'., 1'\ . . Geulincx, Arnold Page 1 of 1 Geulincx, Arnold b. Jan. 31, 1624, Antwerp, Spanish Netherlands [now in Belgium] d. November 1669, Leiden, Neth. pseudonym PHlLARETUS, Flemish metaphysician, logician, and leading exponent of a philosophical doctrine known as occasional ism based on the work of Rene Descartes, as extended to include a comprehensive ethical theory . Geulincx studied philosophy and theology at the University of Louvain, where he became a professor in 1646. In 1658 he was dismissed, probably because of his sympathy with Jansenism, the Roman Catholic movement emphasizing man's sinful nature and dependency on God's grace for salvation. Taking refuge at leiden, in Holland, he adopted the strict, Jansen-Iike theology of John Calvin. In September 1658 he became a medical doctor and, in the following year, was authorized to lecture privately in philosophy for a few months. He lived in poverty until 1662, when he obtained a lectureship in logic at the University of leiden, where in 1665 he became professor extraordinary of philosophy and ethics. Geulincx's major works include Quaestiones Quodlibeticae (1653; "Miscellaneous Questions"), reedited by him at leiden as Saturnalia (1665); Logica ...Restituta (1662; "logic Restated"); and the ethical dissertation De Virtute (1665; "On Virtute"). After his death, his pupil C. Bontekoe published, under Geulincx's pseudonym, Philaretus, his six treatises on ethics, Gnothi Seauton (1615; "Know Thyself "). As Philaretus, Geulincx accepted the progression in Cartesian metaphysics from doubt to knowledge and from knowledge to God and affirmed the dominant role of the will in forming judgments. Geulincx, however, aimed to submit the will to the authority of reason. This "ethics of humility" reflects the author's Jansenism and Calvinism. In his Metaphysica Vera (1691; "True Metaphysics"), he disappointed Cartesian expectations that a scientific mastery of matter, life, and mind will develop and instead emphasized man's impotence before the transcendent Creator . The inspiration for Geulincx's attempt to complete Descartes's system came primarily from the writings of St. Augustine. The opposition between the incomprehensible Deity and his creation also formed the basis for Geulincx's doctrine of occasionalism: God uses the "occasion" of the body to produce various human attitudes. Though people may believe that they act unaided, God actually works within them to make their will effective. Geulincx's works have been collected as Arnoldi Geulinex Antverpiensis Opera Philosophica, 3 vol. ( 1891-93 ; "The Philosophical Works of Arnold Geulincx of Antwerp"). Copyright @ 1994-2001 Encyclopmdia Britannica, Inc. file:IIC'., 1'\ . . ----- Original Message ----- From: <Jacassidy22@aol.com<mailto:Jacassidy22@aol.com>> To: <Dutch-Colonies@rootsweb.com<mailto:Dutch-Colonies@rootsweb.com>>; <NEW-NETHERLAND@rootsweb.com<mailto:NEW-NETHERLAND@rootsweb.com>> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 8:24 AM Subject: [DUTCH-COLONIES] The Spotted Cow or Bonte Koe > > Recently I heard from Vince Akers, and he noted that our Lammert Jansen > Dorland came over on the Spotted Cow, as did his mother's Demaree > ancestor. > Vince told me that he and his family were in Amsterdam in 1997, they > lucked > into an exhibit on BonteKoe at the Maritime Museum and I quote: "It > turns out > that the skipper of the Spotted Cow named his son BonteKoe and that son > because a famous seafaring explorer about whom legends were many and many > books > were written including children's story books. BONTEKOE, the man or the > legend seemd to have become a kind of Dutch version of Daniel Boone." > > I decided to see if there was anything on line that I could pull up that > would expand on his information, however the museum and library are both > closed > for renovations. However, here is their website: > > _http://www.scheepvaartmuseum.nl/_ (http://www.scheepvaartmuseum.nl/<http://www.scheepvaartmuseum.nl/>) > > If anyone has further information to add to this, I would be very > interested. > > Thanks > > Judy > > > > > > ************************************** See what's free at > http://www.aol.com<http://www.aol.com/>. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > DUTCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:DUTCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com> with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >