Platonism at the origins of modernity : studies on Platonism and early modern philosophy
This collection of essays offers an overview of the range and breadth of Platonic philosophy in the early modern period, examining both the philosophers of Platonic tradition (e.g. Cusanus, Ficino, and Cudworth), and the impact of Platonism on major philosophers of the period (especially Descartes, Leibniz, Locke, Shaftesbury and Berkeley). By demonstrating the vitality of the Platonic tradition in the period this collection challenges the received view that Platonism made little or no contribution in the emergence of modern philosophy
Criticism, interpretation, etc
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9781402064074, 9781402064067, 1402064071, 1402064063
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Introduction / Sarah Hutton
Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464): Platonism at the dawn of modernity / Dermot Moran
At variance: Marsilio Ficino, Platonism and heresy / Michael J.B. Allen
Going naked into the shrine: Herbert, Plotinus and the constructive metaphor / Stephen R.L. Clark
Comenius, light metaphysics and educational reform / Jan Rohls (translated by Alexandra Wörn and David Leech)
Robert Fludd's Kabbalistic cosmos / Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann (translated by Geoff Dumbreck and Douglas Hedley)
Reconciling theory and fact: the problem of "other faiths" in Lord Herbert and the Cambridge Platonists / David Pailin
Trinity, community and love: Cudworth's Platonism and the idea of God / Leslie Armour
Chaos and order in Cudworth's thought / Jean-Louis Breteau
Cudworth, Prior and Passmore on the autonomy of ethics / Robin Attfield
Substituting Aristotle: Platonic themes in Dutch Cartesianism / Han van Ruler
Soul, body and world: Plato's Timaeus and Descartes' Meditations / Catherine Wilson
Locke, Plato and Platonism / G.A.J. Rogers
Reflections on Locke's Platonism / Victor Nuovo
The Platonism at the core of Leibniz's philosophy / Christia Mercer
Leibniz and Berkeley: Platonic metaphysics and "The Mechanical Philosophy" / Stuart Brown
Which Platonism for which modernity? a note on Shaftesbury's Socratic sea-cards / Laurent Jaffro
Platonism, aesthetics and the sublime at the origins of modernity / Douglas Hedley
Two of the essays were translated from the German
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