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The Rise of Modern Philosophy : The Tension Between the New and Traditional Philosophies from Machiavelli to Leibniz - Couverture souple

 
9780198236054: The Rise of Modern Philosophy : The Tension Between the New and Traditional Philosophies from Machiavelli to Leibniz
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ISBN 10 : 0198236050 ISBN 13 : 9780198236054
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 1995

Synopsis

`Modern' philosophy in the West is said to have begun with Bacon and Descartes. Their methodological and metaphysical writings, in conjunction with the discoveries that marked the seventeenth-century scientific revolution, are supposed to have interred both Aristotelian and scholastic science and the philosophy that supported it. But did the new or `modern' philosophy effect a complete break with what preceded it? Were Bacon and Descartes untainted by scholastic influences? The theme of this book is that the new and traditional philosophies have more in common than the orthodox account suggests. In two survey articles and thirteen essays on individual philosophers, the contributors show that the rise of modern philosophy was much more complicated and much more interesting than is usually thought. They consider not only metaphysics and the sciences but also claims of Machievelli, Hobbes and Spinoza to have invented `modern' ethics and politics. These two aspects of `modernity' in philosophy are connected for the first time. The book offers a broad view of the early modern philosophers, covering not only the much-studied major figures but also relatively neglected writers: Mersenne, Gassendi, White, and Sergeant.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

`Modern' philosophy in the West is said to have begun with Bacon and Descartes. Their methodological and metaphysical writings, in conjunction with the discoveries that marked the seventeenth-century scientific revolution, are supposed to have interred both Aristotelian and scholastic science and the philosophy that supported it. But did the new or `modern' philosophy effect a complete break with what preceded it? Were Bacon and Descartes untainted by scholastic influences? The theme of this book is that the new and traditional philosophies have more in common than the orthodox account suggests. In two survey articles and thirteen essays on individual philosophers, the contributors show that the rise of modern philosophy was much more complicated and much more interesting than is usually thought. They consider not only metaphysics and the sciences but also claims of Machievelli, Hobbes and Spinoza to have invented `modern' ethics and politics. These two aspects of `modernity' in philosophy are connected for the first time. The book offers a broad view of the early modern philosophers, covering not only the much-studied major figures but also relatively neglected writers: Mersenne, Gassendi, White, and Sergeant.

Revue de presse

Fascinating mixtures of old and new philosophy as there may have been, these do not challenge the need for a dividingline. In fact, I think there are indications of a definite shift which can be discerned in nearly all contributions to The Rise of Modern Philosophy (Archiv Für Geschichte der Philosophie)

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
1995
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0198236050
ISBN 13 
9780198236054
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
368
Éditeur
Sorell Tom
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