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...

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Other Authors: Pietarinen, Juhani, Viljanen, Valtteri
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009
Series:Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 180.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central