The divine order, the human order, and the order of nature : historical perspectives / edited by Eric Watkins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Watkins, Eric, 1964- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Order (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

xxviii, 240 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2013]

Summary:

This volume contains ten new essays focused on the exploration and articulation of a narrative that considers the notion of order within medieval and modern philosophy-its various kinds (natural, moral, divine, and human), the different ways in which each is conceived, and the diverse dependency relations that are thought to obtain among them. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I The Medieval Period

1 Powers versus Laws: God and the Order of the World According to Some Late Medieval Aristotelians / Marilyn Mccord Adams Adams, Marilyn Mccord 3

2 The Order of Nature and Moral Luck: Maimonides on Divine Providence / Steven Nadler Nadler, Steven 27

Part II The Early Modern Period

3 God, Laws, and the Order of Nature: Descartes and Leibniz, Hobbes, and Spinoza / Daniel Garber Garber, Daniel 45

4 Malebranche's Causal Concepts / Robert Merrihew Adams Adams, Robert Merrihew 67

5 Laws and Order: Malebranche, Berkeley, Hume / Tad M. Schmaltz Schmaltz, Tad M. 105

6 Laws of Nature in Seventeenth-Century England: From Cambridge Platonism to Newtonianism / Peter Harrison Harrison, Peter 127

7 Laws and Powers in Leibniz / Donald Rutherford Rutherford, Donald 149

8 Change in the Monad / Martha Brandt Bolton Bolton, Martha Brandt 175

Part III Kant

9 Rational Hope, Moral Order, and the Revolution of the Will / Andrew Chignell Chignell, Andrew 197

10 Kant on the Natural, Moral, Human, and Divine Orders / Eric Watkins Watkins, Eric 219.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780199934409

0199934401

OCLC:

829239430