EALTH IS A GOOD THAT IS ALMOST UNIVERSALLY DESIRED. IT IS NOT ONLY INstrumental to obtaining many other goods of life, it seems good in itself. Indeed, in most western cultures, health has become a virtual cultural obsession, resulting in steadily growing demands on health care systems and in burgeoning industries in wellness and alternative medicine. In the United States alone, billions of dol...

The English Catholic philosopher Sir Kenelm Digby (1603–1665) has enjoyed a recent spate of scholarly attention as prodigious traveller, political figure, and man diverse intellectual interests. This article contributes to this scholarship by assessing the commentary on salvation at heart Digby’s philosophy soul historical contexts in which it was produced. It argues that thinking meditation wo...