Renaissance and 17th Century Rationalism - Routledge History of Philosophy Volume 4

Informationen zum Autor G.H.R. Parkinson is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Reading. His numerous books include works on Spinoza, Leibniz, Wittgenstein, Lukács; he is also the General Editor of An Encyclopaedia of Philosophy (Routledge, 1988). Zusammenfassung This volume covers a period of three hundred and fifty years, from the middle of the fourteenth century to the early years of the eighteenth century: the birth of modern philosophy. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The philosophy of the Italian Renaissance 2. Renaissance philosophy outside Italy 3. Science and mathematics from the Renaissance to Descartes 4. Francis Bacon and man's two-faced kingdom 5. Descares: methodology 6. Descartes: metaphysics and philosophy of mind 7. Seventeenth-century materialism: Gassendi and Hobbes 8. Spinoza: metaphysics and knowledge 9. The moral and political philosophy of Spinoza 10. Occasionalism 11. Leibniz: truth, knowledge and metaphysics

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• Authors: Prof G H R Parkinson Parkinson (Author), Prof G H R Parkinson
• Assisted by: Prof G H R Parkinson (Author) (Editor), G.H.R. Parkinson (Editor), Prof G H R Parkinson (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.07.2016
• EAN: 9781138147911
• ISBN: 978-1-138-14791-1
• No. of pages: 480
• Series: Routledge History of Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600, Medieval Western philosophy