| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 330 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-318) and index. |
| Contents |
Stoicism in the philosophical tradition: Spinoza, Lipsius, Butler / A.A. Long -- Early modern uses of Hellenistic philosophy: Gassendi's epicurean project / Margaret J. Osler -- Locke's offices / Phillip Mitsis -- Patience sans espérance: Leibniz's critique of stoicism / Donald Rutherford -- Epicureanism in early modern philosophy: Leibniz and his contemporaries / Catherine Wilson -- Stoics, Grotius, and Spinoza on moral deliberation / Jon Miller -- The Discourse on the method and the tradition of intellectual autobiography / Stephen Menn -- Subjectivity, ancient and modern: the Cyrenaics, Sextus, and Descartes / Gail Fine -- Spinoza and Philo: the alleged mysticism in the Ethics / Steven Nadler -- Hume's scepticism and ancient scepticisms / Donald C. Ainslie -- Stoic naturalism in Butler / Terence Irwin. |
| Summary |
Early modern philosophers looked for inspiration to the later ancient thinkers when they rebelled against the dominant Platonic and Aristotelian traditions. The impact of the Hellenistic philosophers on such philosophers as Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza, and Locke was profound and is ripe for reassessment. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Philosophy, Modern -- 18th century -- Congresses.
|
|
Philosophy, Modern. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
Philosophy, Ancient -- Congresses.
|
|
Philosophy, Ancient. |
| Chronological Term |
1600-1799 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
|
Conference papers and proceedings.
|
|
Conference papers and proceedings.
|
| Added Author |
Miller, Jon, 1970-
|
|
Inwood, Brad.
|
| Other Form: |
Print version: Hellenistic and early modern philosophy. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003 0521823854 (DLC) 2002031073 (OCoLC)50403859 |
| ISBN |
0511062125 (electronic book) |
|
9780511062124 (electronic book) |
|
9780511498275 (electronic book) |
|
0511498276 (electronic book) |
|
9780511070587 (electronic book) |
|
0511070586 (electronic book) |
|
1280436581 |
|
9781280436581 |
|
0521823854 (Cloth) |
|
9780521823852 |
|
9780521042444 |
|
0521042445 |
|
