Buch, Englisch, 816 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 1553 g
Buch, Englisch, 816 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 1553 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-956791-1
Verlag: OUP Oxford
Magnum opus by a leading historian of philosophy
Ambitious study of the development of metaphysics from medieval to modern
Clearly and engagingly written
Shows how much contemporary metaphysicians can learn from this period
Robert Pasnau traces the developments of metaphysical thinking through four rich but for the most part neglected centuries of philosophy, running from the thirteenth century through to the seventeenth. At no period in the history of philosophy, other than perhaps our own, have metaphysical problems received the sort of sustained attention they received during the later Middle Ages, and never has a whole philosophical tradition come crashing down as quickly and completely as did scholastic philosophy in the seventeenth century. The thirty chapters work through various fundamental metaphysical issues, sometimes focusing more on scholastic thought, sometimes on the seventeenth century. Pasnau begins with the first challenges to the classical scholasticism of Bonaventure and Thomas Aquinas, runs through prominent figures like John Duns Scotus and William Ockham, and ends in the seventeenth century, with the end of the first stage of developments in post-scholastic philosophy: on the continent, with Descartes and Gassendi, and in England, with Boyle and Locke.
Zielgruppe
Scholars and advanced students of the history of philosophy.
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Weitere Infos & Material
1: Introduction
I. Matter
2: Substratum
3: Theories of Prime Matter
4: Matter and Extension
5: Philosophiae Perenne
II. Substance
6: Subjects and Substances
7: The Veiled Subject
8: Cartesian Substances
9: Lockean Substances
III. Accidents
10: Real Accidents
11: Inherence
12: Categories
13: Modes
IV. Extension
14: Quantity and Extension
15: Extension and Impenetrability
16: Mind and Extension
17: Location
18: Entia Successiva
V. Quality
19: Real Qualities
20: Heresy and Novelty
21: Primary Qualities
22: Secondary Qualities
23: Powers and Dispositions
VI. Unity and Identity
24: Substantial Form
25: Unity and Dualism
26: Parts and Wholes
27: Real Essences
28: Permanence and Corruption
29: Identity over Time
30: Locke's Nominal Substances
Tables of Authors
Bibliography of Primary Sources
Bibliography of Secondary Sources
