Studies in Seventeenth-Century European Philosophy

Zusatztext The essays seriously challenge certain elements of what have become the standard interpretations of Descartes, Leibniz, and Bayle. They are historically weighty...and philosophically subtle...of great value and interest to anyone working on Descartes, Leibniz, or Bayle. Klappentext This is a collection of new, specially written essays on the flowering of modern philosophy on the continent of Europe. The eight leading contributors focus on the work of Descartes, later Cartesians, Leibniz, and Bayle, reassessing the influence of Augustine on Descartes and of the Reformed tradition on Leibniz, and tracing anticipations of Leibniz's monadology in the cabbalistic notions of van Helmont, the preformationist theories of Malebranche, and the experimental work of Dutch microscopists. Zusammenfassung This is a collection of essays on the expansion of modern philosophy in Europe. Spanning from Descartes to Leibniz, and other thinkers, the book aims to further the understanding of philosophy in its historical context in relation to the general intellectual culture and institutions of its time. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1: Stephen Menn: Descartes, Augustine, and the status of faith 2: Tad M. Schmaltz: Descartes on innate ideas, sensation, and scholasticism: The response to Regius 3: Steven Nadler: Occasionalism and the mind-body problem 4: Stuart Brown: F. M. van Helmont: His philosophical connections and the reception of his later cabbalistic philosophy 5: Christia Mercer: Mechanizing Aristotle: Leibniz and reformed philosophy 6: Catherine Wilson: Leibniz and the animalcula 7: Thomas M. Lennon: Bayle, Locke, and the metaphysics of toleration 8: David Wootton: Pierre Bayle, libertine?

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• Authors: Columba Stewart, M. A. Stewart, M.a. Stewart
• Assisted by: M A Stewart (Editor), M. A. Stewart (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.1997
• EAN: 9780198239406
• ISBN: 978-0-19-823940-6
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Oxford Studies in the History of Philosophy; Oxford Studies in the History; Oxford Studies in the History of Philosophy; Oxford Studies in the History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; History of Ideas, Europe, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, HISTORY / Social History, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy