Pierre Gassendi and the birth of early modern philosophy
This book offers a comprehensive treatment of the philosophical system of the seventeenth-century philosopher Pierre Gassendi. Gassendi's importance is widely recognized and is essential for understanding early modern philosophers and scientists such as Locke, Leibniz and Newton. Offering a sys...
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| Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2007
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Gassendi's life and times
- Gassendi's philosophical opponents
- Skepticism, perception, and the truth of the appearances
- Cognition, knowledge, and the theory of signs
- Space and time
- Atoms and causes
- Bodies and motion
- Generation, life, and the corporeal soul
- The metaphysics of body
- Faith, reason, and the immaterial soul