Time and the science of the soul in early modern philosophy / by Michael Edwards.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edwards, Michael, 1938-

Series:

Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 224.

Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; volume 224

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time.

Soul.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden [Netherlands] : Brill, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For many early modern philosophers, particularly those influenced by Aristotle’s Physics and De anima , time had an intimate connection to the human rational soul. This connection had wide-ranging implications for metaphysics, natural philosophy and politics: at its heart was the assumption that man was not only a rational, but also a temporal, animal. In Time and the Science of the Soul in Early Modern Philosophy , Michael Edwards traces this connection from late Aristotelian commentaries and philosophical textbooks to the natural and political philosophy of two of the best-known ‘new philosophers’ of the seventeenth century, Thomas Hobbes and René Descartes. The book demonstrates both time’s importance as a philosophical problem, and the intellectual fertility and continued relevance of Aristotelian philosophy into the seventeenth century.

Contents:

part one. Aristotelian and late scholastic theories of time and the soul

part two. Time and the science of the soul in the new philosophy.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-23233-8

OCLC:

860903290

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004232334 DOI