Atoms, Pneuma, and Tranquillity: Epicurean and Stoic Themes in European Thought

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Edited by Margaret J. Osler, University of Calgary

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date: November 2009
Print publication year: 1991
Online ISBN: 9780511608353
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511608353

Subjects: History of Science, General Science

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This volume examines the influence that Epicureanism and Stoicism, two philosophies of nature and human nature articulated during classical times, exerted on the development of European thought to the Enlightenment. Although the influence of these philosophies has often been noted in certain areas, such as the influence of Stoicism on the development of Christian thought and the influence of Epicureanism on modern materialism, the chapters in this volume contribute a new awareness of the degree to which these philosophies and their continued interaction informed European intellectual life well into early modern times. The influence of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophies in the areas of literature, philosophy, theology, and science are considered. Many thinkers continue to perceive these philosophies as significant alternatives for understanding the human and natural worlds. Having become incorporated into the canon of philosophical alternatives, Epicureanism and Stoicism continued to exert identifiable influences on scientific and philosophical thought at least until the middle of the eighteenth century.

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

List of contributors
pp ix-x

Acknowledgments
pp xi-xii

Introduction
pp 1-10

1 - Ethics and logic in Stoicism
pp 11-24

2 - Medieval connectives, Hellenistic connections: the strange case of propositional logic
pp 25-38

3 - Stoic psychotherapy in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Petrarch's De remediis
pp 39-66

4 - Alonso de Cartagena and John Calvin as interpreters of Seneca's De clementia
pp 67-88

5 - The Epicurean in Lorenzo Valla's On Pleasure
pp 89-114

6 - Seneca's role in popularizing Epicurus in the sixteenth century
pp 115-134

7 - Stoic contributions to early modern science
pp 135-154

8 - Fortune, fate, and divination: Gassendi's voluntarist theology and the baptism of Epicureanism
pp 155-174

9 - Epicureanism and the creation of a privatist ethic in early seventeenth-century France
pp 175-196

10 - Robert Boyle on Epicurean atheism and atomism
pp 197-220

11 - Stoic and Epicurean doctrines in Newton's system of the world
pp 221-238

12 - Locke, Willis, and the seventeenth-century Epicurean soul
pp 239-258

13 - The Epicurean new way of ideas: Gassendi, Locke, and Berkeley
pp 259-272

14 - The Stoic legacy in the early Scottish Enlightenment
pp 273-296

Index
pp 297-304

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