Margaret J. Osler (ed.)

Atoms, Pneuma and Tranquillity

Herausgeber: Osler, Margaret J.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780521018463
• ISBN-10: 0521018463
• Artikelnr.: 21537802

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Margaret J. Osler and Letizia A. Panizza; 1. Ethics and logic
in stoicism Gerard Verbeke; 2. Medieval connectives, Hellenistic
connections: the strange case of propositional logic Calvin G. Normore; 3.
Stoic psychotherapy in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Petrarch's De
Remediis Letizia A. Panizza; 4. Alonso de Cartagena and John Calvin as
interpreters of Seneca's De Clementia Nicholas G. Round; 5. The Epicurean
in Lorenzo Valla's On Pleasure Maristella de P. Lorch; 6. Seneca's role in
popularizing Epicurus in the Renaissance Louise Fothergill-Payne; 7. Stoic
contributions to early modern science Peter Barker; 8. Fortune, fate, and
divination: Gassendi's voluntarist theology and the baptism of Epicureanism
Margaret J. Osler; 9. Epicureanism and the creation of a privatist ethic in
early seventeenth-century France Lisa Tunick Sarasohn; 10. Robert Boyle on
Epicurean atheism and atomism J. J. Macintosh; 11. Stoic and Epicurean
doctrines in Newton's system of the world B. J. T. Dobbs; 12. Locke,
Willis, and the seventeenth-century Epicurean soul John P. Wright; 13. The
Epicurean way of ideas: Gassendi, Locke, and Berkeley Thomas M. Lennon; 14.
The stoic legacy in the early Scottish enlightenment M. A. Stewart.