Early modern philosophers and the Renaissance legacy. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Cecilia Muratori, Gianni Paganini, editors.
• Editors: Muratori, Cecilia, 1981-; Paganini, Gianni, 1950-
• Contents: Introduction: Renaissance and Early Modern Philosophy: Mobile Frontiers and Established Outposts -- Section I: The Endurance of Tradition -- 1. What’s Wrong with Doing History of Renaissance Philosophy? Rudolph Goclenius and the Canon of Early Modern Philosophy -- 2. Italian Renaissance Love Theory and the General Scholar in the Seventeenth Century -- 3. The Critique of Scholastic Language in Renaissance Humanism and Early Modern Philosophy -- 4. Henry More and Girolamo Cardano -- Section II: Natural Philosophy -- 5.From Attraction and Impulsus to Motion of Liberty. Rarefaction and Condensation, Nature and Violence in Cardano, Francis Bacon, Glisson and Hale -- 6. Telesio Among the Novatores: Telesio’s Reception in the Seventeenth Century -- 7. Looking at an Earth-Like Moon and living on a Moon-Like Earth in Renaissance and Early Modern Thought. Section III: Changing Conceptions of the Human -- 8. Descartes, the Humanists and the Perfection of Man -- 9. The Return of Campanella: La Forge versus Cureau de la Chambre -- 10. From Animal Happiness to Human Unhappiness: Cardano, Vanini, Theophrastus redivivus (1659). Section IV: Moral and Political Theory -- 11. Ethics, Politics, and Friendship in Bacon’s Essays (1625): Between Past and Future -- 12. Thomas Hobbes Against the Aristotelian Account of the Virtues and his Renaissance Source Lorenzo Valla -- 13. Debating "Greatness" from Machiavelli to Burton -- 14. John Upton from Political Liberty to Critical Liberty: The Moral and Political Implications of Ancient and Renaissance Studies in the Enlightenment -- 15. Epilogue: A Story in the History of Scholarship: The Rediscovery of Tommaso Campanella.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer Verlag
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 190; Philosophy; Philosophy, Modern -- History; Philosophy, Modern -- 17th century; Philosophy, Modern -- 18th century; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern; Philosophy, Modern; Science -- History; History of science; Philosophy (General); History; Philosophy -- History & Surveys -- General; History of Western philosophy; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319326047
• Related ISBNs: 331932604X; 9783319326023; 3319326023
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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