| Description |
1 online resource (x, 304 pages) |
| Contents |
Atomism and mechanism -- Corpuscular effluvia : between imagination and experiment -- Order and disorder -- Mortality and metaphysics -- Empiricism and mortalism -- Some rival systems -- The social contract -- The problem of materialism in the New essays -- Robert Boyle and the study of nature -- The sweetness of living |
| Summary |
This landmark study examines the role played by the rediscovery of the writings of the ancient atomists, Epicurus and Lucretius, in the articulation of the major philosophical systems of the seventeenth century, and, more broadly, their influence on the evolution of natural science and moral and political philosophy. The target of sustained and trenchant philosophical criticism by Cicero, and of opprobrium by the Christian Fathers of the early Church, for its unflinching commitmentto the absence of divine supervision and the finitude of life, the Epicurean philosophy surfaced again in the peri |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-296) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Epicureans (Greek philosophy)
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Atomism.
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Materialism.
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Mechanism (Philosophy)
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Philosophy, Modern.
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materialism (philosophical movement)
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Ancient & Classical.
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Atomism
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Epicureans (Greek philosophy)
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Materialism
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Mechanism (Philosophy)
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Philosophy, Modern
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191553523 |
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0191553522 |
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9780191716492 |
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0191716499 |
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