Table of Contents
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Book Overview
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Chapter 1
Renaissance and Early Modern Philosophy: Mobile Frontiers and Established Outposts
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Chapter 2
What’s Wrong with Doing History of Renaissance Philosophy? Rudolph Goclenius and the Canon of Early Modern Philosophy
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Chapter 3
Italian Renaissance Love Theory and the General Scholar in the Seventeenth Century
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Chapter 4
The Critique of Scholastic Language in Renaissance Humanism and Early Modern Philosophy
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Chapter 5
Henry More and Girolamo Cardano
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Chapter 6
From Attractio and Impulsus to Motion of Liberty: Rarefaction and Condensation, Nature and Violence, in Cardano, Francis Bacon, Glisson and Hale
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Chapter 7
Telesio Among the Novatores: Telesio’s Reception in the Seventeenth Century
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Chapter 8
Looking at an Earth-Like Moon and Living on a Moon-Like Earth in Renaissance and Early Modern Thought
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Chapter 9
Descartes, the Humanists, and the Perfection of the Human Being
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Chapter 10
The Return of Campanella: La Forge versus Cureau de la Chambre
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Chapter 11
From Animal Happiness to Human Unhappiness: Cardano, Vanini, Theophrastus Redivivus (1659)
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Chapter 12
Ethics, Politics, and Friendship in Bacon’s Essays (1625): Between Past and Future
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Chapter 13
Thomas Hobbes Against the Aristotelian Account of the Virtues and His Renaissance Source Lorenzo Valla
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Chapter 14
Debating “Greatness” from Machiavelli to Burton
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Chapter 15
John Upton from Political Liberty to Critical Liberty: The Moral and Political Implications of Ancient and Renaissance Studies in the Enlightenment
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Chapter 16
A Story in the History of Scholarship: The Rediscovery of Tommaso Campanella
Attention for Chapter 8:
Looking at an Earth-Like Moon and Living on a Moon-Like Earth in Renaissance and Early Modern Thought