AuthorSchuhmann, Karl. author
TitleSelected papers on Renaissance philosophy and on Thomas Hobbes [electronic resource] / by Karl Schuhmann ; edited by Piet Steenbakkers, Cees Leijenhorst
ImprintDordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2004
Connect tohttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0485-4
Descript XIII, 278 p. online resource

SUMMARY

-Selected papers on Renaissance philosophy and on Thomas Hobbes offers the best work in these fields by the acclaimed historian of philosophy, Karl Schuhmann (1941-2003), displaying the extraordinary range and depth of his unique scholarship, -Topics covered include Renaissance philosophy of nature; the development of the notion of time in early modern philosophy; Telesio's concept of space; Hermetic influences on Pico, Patrizi and Hobbes; Hobbes's Short Tract; Spinoza and Hobbes; Hobbes's political philosophy, -This book brings together, in chronological arrangement, twelve papers. Though these were published before in some form, several were not easily accessible so far, -All articles have been edited in accordance with the author's wishes, and incorporate his later additions and corrections


CONTENT

Francis Bacon und Hobbesโ Widmungsbrief zu De Cive -- Gedankenschnelle und Himmelsflug: einige hermetische Motive bei Hobbes -- Methodenfragen bei Spinoza und Hobbes: zum Problem des Einflusses -- Zur Entstehung des neuzeitlichen Zeitbegriffs: Telesio, Patrizi, Gassendi -- Telesioโs Concept of Matter -- Le concept de lโespace chez Telesio -- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola und der Hermetismus: Vom Mitstreiter zum Gegner -- Francesco Patrizi und die hermetische Philosophie -- La notion de loi chez Hobbes -- Hobbes and the Political Thought of Plato and Aristotle -- Hobbes und Gassendi -- Le Short Tract, premiรจre ลuvre philosophique de Hobbes -- Karl Schuhmann โ Bibliography (December 2003)


SUBJECT

  1. Philosophy
  2. Modern philosophy
  3. Philosophy and science
  4. Philosophy
  5. Modern Philosophy
  6. Philosophy of Science