The World as Active Power : Studies in the History of European Reason.
Title:
The World as Active Power : Studies in the History of European Reason.
Author:
Pietarinen, Juhani.
ISBN:
9789047430568
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (364 pages)
Series:
Brill's Studies in Intellectual History ; v.180
Brill's Studies in Intellectual History
Contents:
CONTENTS -- List of Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Classic Works not included in the Bibliography or List of Abbreviations -- Introduction (Juhani Pietarinen and Valtteri Viljanen) -- Chapter One Plato's Dualism: The Cosmos as Active and Passive Power (Juhani Pietarinen) -- Chapter Two The Active Principle in Stoic Philosophy (Håvard Løkke) -- Chapter Three Plotinus on Act and Power (Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson) -- Chapter Four Power and Activity in Early Medieval Philosophy (Tomas Ekenberg) -- Chapter Five Power and Possibility in Thomas Aquinas (Andreas Schmidt) -- Chapter Six Causal Power in Descartes' Mind-Body Union (Juhani Pietarinen) -- Chapter Seven De novo creat: Descartes on Action, Interaction, and Continuous Creation (Timo Kajamies) -- Chapter Eight Motion and Reason: Hobbes' Difficulties with the Idea of Active Power (Juhani Pietarinen) -- Chapter Nine Spinoza's Actualist Model of Power (Valtteri Viljanen) -- Chapter Ten Leibniz on Force, Activity, and Passivity (Arto Repo and Valtteri Viljanen) -- Chapter Eleven Kant on Force and Activity (Arto Repo and Hemmo Laiho) -- Chapter Twelve Differences that are None. Hegel's Theory of Force in the Phenomenology of Spirit (Andreas Schmidt) -- Chapter Thirteen Schopenhauer's Twofold Dynamism (Valtteri Viljanen) -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
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 rationalism to Hegel and Schopenhauer.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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