Platonism at the origins of modernity : studies on Platonism and early modern philosophy / edited by Douglas Hedley and Sarah Hutton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hedley, Douglas.

Hutton, Sarah, 1948-

Series:

Archives internationales d'histoire des idées ; 196.

Archives internationales d'histoire des idées = International archives of the history of ideas ; 196

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato--Criticism and interpretation.

Plato.

Cudworth, Ralph, 1617-1688--Criticism and interpretation.

Cudworth, Ralph.

Descartes, René, 1596-1650--Criticism and interpretation.

Descartes, René.

Descartes, René, 1596-1650.

Cudworth, Ralph, 1617-1688.

Platonists.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

285 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht, The Netherlands : Springer, 2008.

Language Note:

Two of the essays were translated from the German.

Summary:

This collection of essays offers an overview of the range and breadth of Platonic philosophy in the early modern period, examining both the philosophers of Platonic tradition (e.g. Cusanus, Ficino, and Cudworth), and the impact of Platonism on major philosophers of the period (especially Descartes, Leibniz, Locke, Shaftesbury and Berkeley). By demonstrating the vitality of the Platonic tradition in the period this collection challenges the received view that Platonism made little or no contribution in the emergence of modern philosophy.

Contents:

Introduction / Sarah Hutton

Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464): Platonism at the dawn of modernity / Dermot Moran

At variance: Marsilio Ficino, Platonism and heresy / Michael J.B. Allen

Going naked into the shrine: Herbert, Plotinus and the constructive metaphor / Stephen R.L. Clark

Comenius, light metaphysics and educational reform / Jan Rohls (translated by Alexandra Wörn and David Leech)

Robert Fludd's Kabbalistic cosmos / Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann (translated by Geoff Dumbreck and Douglas Hedley)

Reconciling theory and and fact: the problem of 'other faiths' in Lord Herbert and the Cambridge Platonists / David Pailin

Trinity, community and love: Cudworth's Platonism and the idea of God / Leslie Armour

Chaos and order in Cudworth's thought / Jean-Louis Breteau

Cudworth, Prior and Passmore on the autonomy of ethics / Robin Attfield

Substituting Aristotle: Platonic themes in Dutch Cartesianism / Han van Ruler

Soul, body and world: Plato's Timaeus and Descartes' Meditations / Catherine Wilson

Locke, Plato and Platonism / G.A.J. Rogers

Reflections on Locke's Platonism / Victor Nuovo

The Platonism at the core of Leibniz's philosophy / Christia Mercer

Leibniz and Berkeley: Platonic metaphysics and 'The Mechanical Philosophy' / Stuart Brown

Which Platonism for which modernity? a note on Shaftesbury's Socratic sea-cards / Laurent Jaffro

Platonism, aesthetics and the sublime at the origins of modernity / Douglas Hedley.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1402064063

9781402064067

9781402064074

1402064071

OCLC:

212091016