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The world as active power : studies in the history of European reason /
This collection of essays discusses a central feature of European philosophy: the idea of a universal active power as the ultimate world-explanation. The development of this idea is traced from Plato onwards, as it traverses through Stoicism, Neoplatonism, medieval scholasticism, and modern rational...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2009.
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| Colección: | Brill's studies in intellectual history ;
v. 180. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Plato's dualism : the cosmos as active and passive power / Juhani Pietarinen
- The active principle in stoic philosophy / Havard Lokke
- Plotinus on act and power / Eyjolfur Kjalar Emilsson
- Power and activity in early medieval philosophy / Tomas Ekenberg
- Power and possibility in Thomas Aquinas / Andreas Schmidt
- Causal power in Descartes' mind-body union / Juhani Pietarinen
- De novo creat : Descartes on action, interaction, and continuous creation / Timo Kajamies
- Motion and reason : Hobbes's difficulties with the idea of active power / Juhani Pietarinen
- Spinoza's actualist model of power/ valtteri viljanen
- Leibniz on force, activity, and passivity / Arto Repo and Valtteri Viljanen
- Kant on force and activity / Arto Repo and Hemmo Laiho
- Differences that are none : Hegel's theory of force in the phenomenology of spirit / Andreas Schmidt
- Schopenhauer's twofold dynamism / Valtteri Viljanen.