Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Ethics and logic in Stoicism
- 2 Medieval connectives, Hellenistic connections: the strange case of propositional logic
- 3 Stoic psychotherapy in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Petrarch's De remediis
- 4 Alonso de Cartagena and John Calvin as interpreters of Seneca's De clementia
- 5 The Epicurean in Lorenzo Valla's On Pleasure
- 6 Seneca's role in popularizing Epicurus in the sixteenth century
- 7 Stoic contributions to early modern science
- 8 Fortune, fate, and divination: Gassendi's voluntarist theology and the baptism of Epicureanism
- 9 Epicureanism and the creation of a privatist ethic in early seventeenth-century France
- 10 Robert Boyle on Epicurean atheism and atomism
- 11 Stoic and Epicurean doctrines in Newton's system of the world
- 12 Locke, Willis, and the seventeenth-century Epicurean soul
- 13 The Epicurean new way of ideas: Gassendi, Locke, and Berkeley
- 14 The Stoic legacy in the early Scottish Enlightenment
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Ethics and logic in Stoicism
- 2 Medieval connectives, Hellenistic connections: the strange case of propositional logic
- 3 Stoic psychotherapy in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Petrarch's De remediis
- 4 Alonso de Cartagena and John Calvin as interpreters of Seneca's De clementia
- 5 The Epicurean in Lorenzo Valla's On Pleasure
- 6 Seneca's role in popularizing Epicurus in the sixteenth century
- 7 Stoic contributions to early modern science
- 8 Fortune, fate, and divination: Gassendi's voluntarist theology and the baptism of Epicureanism
- 9 Epicureanism and the creation of a privatist ethic in early seventeenth-century France
- 10 Robert Boyle on Epicurean atheism and atomism
- 11 Stoic and Epicurean doctrines in Newton's system of the world
- 12 Locke, Willis, and the seventeenth-century Epicurean soul
- 13 The Epicurean new way of ideas: Gassendi, Locke, and Berkeley
- 14 The Stoic legacy in the early Scottish Enlightenment
- Index
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- Atoms, Pneuma, and TranquillityEpicurean and Stoic Themes in European Thought, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1991