Product Description: Seventeenth-century philosophy scholars come together in this volume to address the Insiders--Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, and Hobbes--and Outsiders--Pierre Gassendi, Kenelm Digby, Theophilus Gale, Ralph Cudworth and Nicholas Malebranche--of the philosocial canon, and the ways in which reputations are created and confirmed...read more

Product Description: The impact of classical thought on Renaissance philosophy is the subject of this volume. In the first part Dr Kraye deals with the interpretations of ancient philosophy put forward by various thinkers of the Italian Renaissance, including the humanist Angelo Poliziano and the Platonist Marsilio Ficino; in the second, she examines the central role of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics within Renaissance moral philosophy and considers the influence of other classical treatises on ethics, especially the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume examines the distinctive and important role played by humanism in the development of early modern philosophy. Focusing on individual authors as well as intellectual trends, this collection of essays aims to portray the humanist movement as an essential part of the philosophy of the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries...read more

Product Description: Entre los siglos XIV y XVII el huamnismo jugó un papel primordial en el desarrollo de la cultura europea. En sus inicios, el movimiento se caracterizó por la voluntad de recuperar, interpretar e imitar los textos de la Antigüedad grecorromana, así como por el estudio de sus restos arqueológicos; poco tardó, sin embargo, en activar un ambicioso programa cultural que influyó en casi todas las facetas que componen la vida intelectual del Renacimiento...read more

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Product Description: The Renaissance, known primarily for the art and literature that it produced, was also a period in which philosophical thought flourished. This two-volume anthology, which was originally published in 1997, contains forty translations of important works on moral and political philosophy written during the Renaissance and hitherto unavailable in English...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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