| Description |
xii, 304 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Epicureanism and the creation of a privatist ethic in early seventeenth-century France / Lisa Tunick Sarasohn -- Robert Boyle on Epicurean atheism and atomism / J.J. Macintosh -- Stoic and Epicurean doctrines in Newton's system of the world / B.J.T. Dobbs -- Locke, Willis, and the seventeenth-century Epicurean soul / John P. Wright -- The Epicurean new way of ideas : Gassendi, Locke, and Berkeley / Thomas M. Lennon -- The Stoic legacy in the early Scottish Enlightenment / M.A. Stewart |
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Ethics and logic in Stoicism / Gerard Verbeke -- Medieval connectives, Hellenistic connections : the strange case of propositional logic / Calvin G. Normore -- Stoic psychotherapy in the Middle Ages and Renaissance : Petrarch's De remediis / Letizia A. Panizza -- Alonso de Cartagena and John Calvin as interpreters of Senecca's De clementia / Nicholas G. Round -- The Epicurean in Lorenzo Valla's On Pleasure / Maristella De P. Lorch -- Seneca's role in popularizing Epicurus in the sixteenth century / Louise Fothergill-Payne -- Stoic contributions to early modern science / Peter Barker -- Fortune, fate, and divination : Gassendi's voluntarist theology and the baptism of Epicureanism / Margaret J. Osler |
| Analysis |
Western thought Influence of classical thought, history |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online version of the print title |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web |
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System requirements: Internet connectivity, World Wide Web browser, and Adobe Acrobat reader |
| Subject |
Epicurus -- Influence.
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Epicurus, 341-270 B.C. -- Influence
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Philosophy, Ancient.
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Philosophy, Medieval.
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Philosophy, Modern.
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Stoics.
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| Author |
Osler, Margaret J., 1942-2010.
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| LC no. |
90045068 |
| ISBN |
0521400481 |
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