| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 330 pages) |
| Contents |
Stoicism in the philosophical tradition: Spinoza, Lipsius, Butler / A.A. Long -- Early modern uses of Hellenistic philosophy: Gassendi's epicurean project / Margaret J. Osler -- Locke's offices / Phillip Mitsis -- Patience sans espérance: Leibniz's critique of stoicism / Donald Rutherford -- Epicureanism in early modern philosophy: Leibniz and his contemporaries / Catherine Wilson -- Stoics, Grotius, and Spinoza on moral deliberation / Jon Miller -- The Discourse on the method and the tradition of intellectual autobiography / Stephen Menn -- Subjectivity, ancient and modern: the Cyrenaics, Sextus, and Descartes / Gail Fine -- Spinoza and Philo: the alleged mysticism in the Ethics / Steven Nadler -- Hume's scepticism and ancient scepticisms / Donald C. Ainslie -- Stoic naturalism in Butler / Terence Irwin |
| Summary |
Early modern philosophers looked for inspiration to the later ancient thinkers when they rebelled against the dominant Platonic and Aristotelian traditions. The impact of the Hellenistic philosophers on such philosophers as Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza, and Locke was profound and is ripe for reassessment |
| Analysis |
Hellenistic philosophy |
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Early modern philosophy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-318) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Philosophy, Modern -- 17th century -- Congresses
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Philosophy, Modern -- 18th century -- Congresses
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Philosophy, Ancient -- Congresses
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- General.
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Philosophy, Ancient
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Philosophy, Modern
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Hellenisme.
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Invloed.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Miller, Jon, 1970-
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Inwood, Brad
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| ISBN |
0511062125 |
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9780511062124 |
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9780511498275 |
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0511498276 |
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9780511070587 |
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0511070586 |
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1280436581 |
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9781280436581 |
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1107137039 |
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9781107137035 |
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0511170173 |
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9780511170171 |
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0511297254 |
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9780511297250 |
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