TY  - BOOK
AU  - Osler,Margaret J.
TI  - Atoms, pneuma, and tranquillity: Epicurean and Stoic themes in European thought 
SN  - 9780511608353 (ebook)
AV  - B181 .A76 1991
U1  - 187 20
PY  - 1991///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Epicurus
KW  - Stoics
KW  - Philosophy, Ancient
KW  - Philosophy, Medieval
KW  - Philosophy, Modern
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015); Ethics and logic in Stoicism / Gerard Verbeke -- Medieval connectives, Hellenistic connections : the strange case of propositional logic / Calvin G. Normore -- Stoic psychotherapy in the Middle Ages and Renaissance : Petrarch's De remediis / Letizia A. Panizza -- Alonso de Cartagena and John Calvin as interpreters of Senecca's De clementia / Nicholas G. Round -- The Epicurean in Lorenzo Valla's On Pleasure / Maristella De P. Lorch -- Seneca's role in popularizing Epicurus in the sixteenth century / Louise Fothergill-Payne -- Stoic contributions to early modern science / Peter Barker -- Fortune, fate, and divination : Gassendi's voluntarist theology and the baptism of Epicureanism / Margaret J. Osler; Epicureanism and the creation of a privatist ethic in early seventeenth-century France / Lisa Tunick Sarasohn -- Robert Boyle on Epicurean atheism and atomism / J.J. Macintosh -- Stoic and Epicurean doctrines in Newton's system of the world / B.J.T. Dobbs -- Locke, Willis, and the seventeenth-century Epicurean soul / John P. Wright -- The Epicurean new way of ideas : Gassendi, Locke, and Berkeley / Thomas M. Lennon -- The Stoic legacy in the early Scottish Enlightenment / M.A. Stewart
N2  - This volume examines the influence that Epicureanism and Stoicism, two philosophies of nature and human nature articulated during classical times, exerted on the development of European thought to the Enlightenment. Although the influence of these philosophies has often been noted in certain areas, such as the influence of Stoicism on the development of Christian thought and the influence of Epicureanism on modern materialism, the chapters in this volume contribute a new awareness of the degree to which these philosophies and their continued interaction informed European intellectual life well into early modern times. The influence of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophies in the areas of literature, philosophy, theology, and science are considered. Many thinkers continue to perceive these philosophies as significant alternatives for understanding the human and natural worlds. Having become incorporated into the canon of philosophical alternatives, Epicureanism and Stoicism continued to exert identifiable influences on scientific and philosophical thought at least until the middle of the eighteenth century
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511608353
ER  -