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The divine order, the human order, and the order of nature : historical perspectives / edited by Eric Watkins.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Order (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxviii, 240 pages)
- Other Title:
- Historical perspectives
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume focuses on the exploration and articulation of a narrative that considers the notion of order within 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.
- Contents:
- Powers versus laws: God and the order of the world according to some late medieval Aristotelians / Marilyn McCord Adams
- The order of nature and moral luck: Maimonides on divine providence / Steven Nadler
- God, laws, and the order of nature: Descartes and Leibniz, Hobbes, and Spinoza / Daniel Garber
- Malebranche's causal concepts / Robert Merrihew Adams
- Laws and order: Malebrance, Berkeley, Hume / Tad M. Schmaltz
- Laws of nature in seventeenth-century England: from Cambridge Platonism to Newtonianism / Peter Harrison
- Laws and powers in Leibniz / Donald Rutherford
- Change in the monad / Martha Brandt Bolton
- Rational hope, moral order, and the revolution of the will / Andrew Chignell
- Kant on the natural, moral, human, and divine orders / Eric Watkins.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 26, 2013).
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-936774-4
- 0-19-993441-X
- OCLC:
- 854585542
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