The Rationalists: Between Tradition and Innovation

by Carlos Fraenkel

Book Overview

Introduction; Carlos Fraenkel, Dario Perinetti, Justin Smith.- Part I Continuities between the Premodern and the Modern.- 1. Descartes on the Human Nature and the Human Good; Lisa Shapiro.- 2. Spinoza on Philosophy and Religion: The Averroistic Sources; Carlos Fraenkel.- 3. Music, Mechanics and 'Mixed Mathematics'; Alison Laywine.- Part II Creating Traditions.- 4. Ethics in Descartes and Seventeenth Century Cartesian Textbooks; Roger Ariew.- 5. Louis Bourguet and the Model of Organic Bodies; Fran?ois Duchesneau.- Part III Rethinking Spinoza.- 6. "Nemo non videt" Intuitive Knowledge and the Question of Spinoza's Elitism; Hasana Sharp.- 7. Rationalism versus Subjective Experience: The Problem of the Two Minds in Spinoza; Syliane Malinowski-Charles.- Part IV Legacies of Rationalism.- 8. Spinoza's Anti-Humanism: An Outline; Yitzhak Y. Melamed.- 9. Spinoza, Leibniz, and the Gods of Philosophy; Steven Nadler.- 10.Leibniz on Infinite Beings and Non-Beings; Ohad Nachtomy.- 11.Grounding the Principle of Sufficient Reason: Leibnizian Rationalism and the Humean Challenge; Brandon C. Look.- Name Index.- Subject Index.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9400733828
• ISBN13: 9789400733824
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"