Renaissance and early modern philosophy /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: French, Peter A., Wettstein, Howard K., Silver, Bruce
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishing, [2002]
Series:Midwest studies in philosophy ; v. 26.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • "Always to do ladies, damosels, and gentlewomen succour": women and the chivalric code in Malory's "Morte Darthur" / Felicia Ackerman
  • Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464): first modern philosopher? / Jasper Hopkins
  • Marsilio Ficino on "Significatio" / Michael J. B. Allen
  • Pomponazzi: moral virtue in a deterministic universe / John L. Treloar
  • The secret of Pico's "Oration": Cabala and renaissance / Brian P. Copenhaver
  • Between republic and monarchy? Liberty, security, and the Kingdom of France in Machiavelli / Cary Nederman and Tatiana V. Goḿez
  • Montaigne, "An apology for Raymond Sebond": happiness and the poverty of reason / Bruce Silver
  • The natural philosophy of Giordano Bruno / Hilary Gatti
  • Francis Bacon ahd the humanistic aspects of modernity / Rose-Mary Sargent
  • Hobbes's atheism / Douglas M. Jesseph
  • New wine in old bottles: Gassendi and the Aristotelian origin of physics / Margaret J. Oster
  • Descartes. mechanics and the mechanical philosophy / Daniel Garber
  • "Presence" and "Likeness" in Arnauld's critique of Malebranche / Nancy Kendrick
  • Pascal's wagers / Jeff Jordan
  • Eternity and immortality in Spinoza's "Ethics" / Steven Nadler
  • Occasionalism and efficacious laws in Malebranche / Micholas Jolley
  • What kind of a skeptic was Bayle? / Thomas M. Lennon
  • From Locke's "Letter" to Montesquieu's "Lettres" / Edwin Curley.