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Humanities

Humanism and Early Modern Philosophy

Editor : M.W.F. Stone, Jill Kraye

Master eBook ISBN10 : 0-203-01607-6

Master eBook ISBN13 : 978-0-203-01607-7

No of pages : 288

eBook Price : $130

Originally Published : 11 Nov 1999

This is an original and timely volume that examines the distinctive and important role played by humanism in the development of early modern philosophy. Focusing on individual authors as well as intellectual trends, this collection of essays aims to portray the humanist movement as an essential part of the philosophy of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.



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Table of contents : 1. The Theology of Lorenzo Valla John Monfasani
2. Renaissance Latin translations of the Greek Commentaries on Aristotle Charles H. Lohr
3. From Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples to Giulio Landi: Uses of the Dialogue in Renaisssance Aristotelianism Luca Bianchi
4. The Adoption and Rejection of Aristotelian Moral Philosophy in Reformed 'Casuistry' M.W.F. Stone
5. The Relationship of Stoicism and Scepticism: Justus Lipsius A.H.T. Levi
6. 'Ethnicorum omnium sanctissimus': Marcus Aurelius and his Meditations from Xylander to Diderot Jill Kraye
7. The Myth of Francis Bacon's 'Anti-Humanism' Brian Vickers
8. 'Delicate learning', Erudition and Enterprise of Philosophy J.R. Milton
9. Grandeur and the Mechanical Philosophy Susan James 10. Renaissance Humanism, Lingering Aristotleianism and the New Mechanical Philosophy: Gassendi on Final Causes Margaret J. Osler
11. Galileo, Ficino and Renaissance Platonism James Hankins
12. Humanist Platonism in Seventeenth-Century Germany Christia Mercer


Contributor Information :Luca Bianchi, University of Padua, Italy; James Hankins, Harvard University, USA; Susan James, University of Cambridge, UK; Jill Kraye, Warburg Institute, London; Anthony Levi, University of St. Andrews, UK; Charles Lohr, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg, Germany; Christina Mercer, Columbia University, USA; John Milton, King's College London, UK; John Monfasani, University of Albany, SUNY, USA; Margaret J. Osler, University of Calgary, USA; Brian Vickers, Centre for Renaissance Studies, Switzerland; M.W.F. Stone, King's College London, UK


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