The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy

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James Hankins
Cambridge University Press, 25 окт. 2007 г.
The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy, published in 2007, provides an introduction to a complex period of change in the subject matter and practice of philosophy. The philosophy of the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries is often seen as transitional between the scholastic philosophy of the Middle Ages and modern philosophy, but the essays collected here, by a distinguished international team of contributors, call these assumptions into question, emphasizing both the continuity with scholastic philosophy and the role of Renaissance philosophy in the emergence of modernity. They explore the ways in which the science, religion and politics of the period reflect and are reflected in its philosophical life, and they emphasize the dynamism and pluralism of a period which saw both new perspectives and enduring contributions to the history of philosophy. This will be an invaluable guide for students of philosophy, intellectual historians, and all who are interested in Renaissance thought.
 

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Introduction
1
The philosopher and Renaissance culture
13
Humanism scholasticism and Renaissance philosophy
30
Continuity and change in the Aristotelian tradition
49
The revival of Platonic philosophy
72
The revival of Hellenistic philosophies
97
Arabic philosophy and Averroism
113
philosophical prescriptions
137
Philosophy and the crisis of religion
234
Hispanic scholastic philosophy
250
New visions of the cosmos
270
Organizations of knowledge
287
Humanistic and scholastic ethics
304
The problem of the prince
319
The significance of Renaissance philosophy
338
Brief biographies of Renaissance philosophers
346

Nicholas of Cusa and modern philosophy
173
Lorenzo Valla and the rise of humanist dialectic
193
The immortality of the soul
211

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James Hankins is Professor of History at Harvard University and editor of Renaissance Civic Humanism: Reappraisals and Reflections (2000, 2004).

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