The Renaissance and 17th Century Rationalism

Routledge History of Philosophy Volume 4
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-415-30876-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 480 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 726 g

Reihe: Routledge History of Philosophy

This fourth volume traces the history of Renaissance philosophy and seventeenth century rationalism, covering Descartes and the birth of modern philosophy.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

(Author), G H R Parkinson

(Author), Prof G H R Parkinson

Parkinson, G. H. R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).