Epicureanism at the origins of modernity / Catherine Wilson.
By: Wilson, Catherine.
Publisher: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2008Description: x, 304 p. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0199238812; 9780199238811.Subject(s): Epicureans (Greek philosophy) | Atomism | Materialism | Mechanism (Philosophy) | Philosophy, ModernDDC classification: 187
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [278]-296) and index.
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.
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