The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy, published in 2007, provides an introduction to a complex period of change in the subject matter and practice of philosophy. The philosophy of the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries is often seen as transitional between the scholastic philosophy of the Middle Ages and modern philosophy, but the essays collected here, by a distinguished international team of contributors, call these assumptions into question, emphasizing both the continuity with scholastic philosophy and the role of Renaissance philosophy in the emergence of modernity. They explore the ways in which the science, religion and politics of the period reflect and are reflected in its philosophical life, and they emphasize the dynamism and pluralism of a period which saw both new perspectives and enduring contributions to the history of philosophy. This will be an invaluable guide for students of philosophy, intellectual historians, and all who are interested in Renaissance thought. |
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Contents
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philosophical prescriptions | 137 |
Philosophy and the crisis of religion | 234 |
Hispanic scholastic philosophy | 250 |
New visions of the cosmos | 270 |
Organizations of knowledge | 287 |
Humanistic and scholastic ethics | 304 |
The problem of the prince | 319 |
The significance of Renaissance philosophy | 338 |
Brief biographies of Renaissance philosophers | 346 |
Nicholas of Cusa and modern philosophy | 173 |
Lorenzo Valla and the rise of humanist dialectic | 193 |
The immortality of the soul | 211 |
Bibliography | 361 |
Index | 401 |
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Page 1 - Here indeed lies the justest and most plausible objection against a considerable part of metaphysics, that they are not properly a science; but arise either from the fruitless efforts of human vanity, which would penetrate into subjects utterly inaccessible to the understanding, or from the craft of popular superstitions, which, being unable to defend themselves on fair ground, raise these entangling brambles to cover and protect their weakness.
Page 1 - They select the most striking observations and instances from common life, place opposite characters in a proper contrast, and, alluring us into the paths of virtue by the views of glory and happiness, direct our steps in these paths by the soundest precepts and most illustrious examples. They make us feel the difference between vice and virtue; they excite and regulate our sentiments ; and so they can but bend our hearts to the love of probity and true honour, they think that they have fully attained...
Page 30 - A correct judgment observes a contrary method, and avoiding all distant and high enquiries, confines itself to common life, and to such subjects as .fall under daily practice and experience ; leaving the more sublime topics to the embellishment of poets and orators, or to the arts of priests and politicians.
Page 2 - Accurate and just reasoning is the only catholic remedy, fitted for all persons and all dispositions ; and is alone able to subvert that abstruse philosophy and metaphysical jargon, which, being mixed up with popular superstition, renders it in a manner impenetrable to careless reasoners, and gives it the air of science and wisdom.
Page 335 - Do NOT STORE up for yourselves treasure on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and thieves break in and steal; but store up treasure in heaven, where neither moth nor rust will destroy, nor thieves break in and steal.
Page 1 - The fame of Cicero flourishes at present, but that of Aristotle is utterly decayed. La Bruyère passes the seas and still maintains his reputation, but the glory of Malebranche is confined to his own nation and to his own age.
Page 187 - There is a famous definition of God which, during the centuries, has played an important part, not only in the thought of theologians and philosophers, but also in the imagination of poets: Deus est sphaera cujus centrum ubique; God is a sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere. It is in a pseudo-hermetic manuscript of the twelfth century, The Book of the Twenty-four Philosophers, that this phrase appears for the first time.1 It is one of the twenty-four definitions...
Page 30 - Another species of mitigated scepticism, which may be of advantage to mankind, and which may be the natural result of the PYRRHONIAN doubts and scruples, is the limitation of our enquiries to such subjects as are best adapted to the narrow capacity of human understanding.
Page 1 - The other species of philosophers consider man in the light of a reasonable rather than an active being, and endeavor to form his understanding more than cultivate his manners. They regard human nature as a subject of speculation, and with a narrow scrutiny examine it in order to find those principles which regulate our understanding, excite our sentiments, and make us approve or blame any particular object, action, or behavior.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy Cambridge Companions to Philosophy |
| Editor | James Hankins |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2007 |
| ISBN | 1139827480, 9781139827485 |
| Subjects | › › Philosophy / History & Surveys / General |
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