Atoms, pneuma, and tranquillity : Epicurean and Stoic themes in European thought / edited by Margaret J. Osler.
| Other author | Osler, Margaret J., 1942-2010. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991. |
| Description | xii, 304 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 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. |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 90045068 |
| ISBN | 0521400481 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | B181 .A76 1991 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |