The world as active power [electronic resource] : studies in the history of European reason / edited by Juhani Pietarinen and Valtteri Viljanen.

Contributor(s): Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 180.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.Description: x, 350 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 190 22
LOC classification:
  • BD438 .W67 2009eb
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Contents:
Plato's dualism : the cosmos as active and passive power / Juhani Pietarinen -- The active principle in stoic philosophy / Havard Lokke -- Plotinus on act and power / Eyjolfur Kjalar Emilsson -- Power and activity in early medieval philosophy / Tomas Ekenberg -- Power and possibility in Thomas Aquinas / Andreas Schmidt -- Causal power in Descartes' mind-body union / Juhani Pietarinen -- De novo creat : Descartes on action, interaction, and continuous creation / Timo Kajamies -- Motion and reason : Hobbes's difficulties with the idea of active power / Juhani Pietarinen -- Spinoza's actualist model of power/ valtteri viljanen -- Leibniz on force, activity, and passivity / Arto Repo and Valtteri Viljanen -- Kant on force and activity / Arto Repo and Hemmo Laiho -- Differences that are none : Hegel's theory of force in the phenomenology of spirit / Andreas Schmidt -- Schopenhauer's twofold dynamism / Valtteri Viljanen.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Plato's dualism : the cosmos as active and passive power / Juhani Pietarinen -- The active principle in stoic philosophy / Havard Lokke -- Plotinus on act and power / Eyjolfur Kjalar Emilsson -- Power and activity in early medieval philosophy / Tomas Ekenberg -- Power and possibility in Thomas Aquinas / Andreas Schmidt -- Causal power in Descartes' mind-body union / Juhani Pietarinen -- De novo creat : Descartes on action, interaction, and continuous creation / Timo Kajamies -- Motion and reason : Hobbes's difficulties with the idea of active power / Juhani Pietarinen -- Spinoza's actualist model of power/ valtteri viljanen -- Leibniz on force, activity, and passivity / Arto Repo and Valtteri Viljanen -- Kant on force and activity / Arto Repo and Hemmo Laiho -- Differences that are none : Hegel's theory of force in the phenomenology of spirit / Andreas Schmidt -- Schopenhauer's twofold dynamism / Valtteri Viljanen.

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