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

What is the ultimate explanatory factor for the existence of the world, for all its changing phenomena and the enduring order found in it? In the history of Western thought, we can find a longstanding philosophical tendency to answer this question in terms of power: the universe is understood as an...

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Superior document:Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 180
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Year of Publication:2009
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 180.
Physical Description:1 online resource (364 p.)
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Table of 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.