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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| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
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2009
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| Series: | Brill's studies in intellectual history ;
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
