Gassendi's Ethics : : Freedom in a Mechanistic Universe / / Lisa T. Sarasohn.
This is the first book to explore the ethical thought of Pierre Gassendi, the seventeenth-century French priest who rehabilitated Epicurean philosophy in the Western tradition. Lisa T. Sarasohn's discussion of the relationship between Gassendi's philosophy of nature and his ethics disclose...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©1996 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- CHAPTER ONE. Introduction: Life and Context
- CHAPTER TWO. Probability in Ethics, Natural Philosophy, and Epistemology
- CHAPTER THREE. The Ethics of Pleasure and Freedom
- CHAPTER FOUR. Gassendi; Descartes, and Their Predecessors on the Liberty of Indifference
- CHAPTER FIVE. The Astrological Threat to Freedom
- CHAPTER SIX. The Ethics of the Mechanical Universe
- CHAPTER SEVEN. The Role of Freedom and Pleasure in the State and Society
- CHAPTER EIGHT. Gassendi and Locke
- CHAPTER NINE. Gassendi and the Enlightenment
- APPENDIX. The Dating of the “'Ethics” of the Syn tagma Philosophicum
- Works Cited
- Index