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Philosophers of the Renaissance

Title: Philosophers of the Renaissance [electronic resource] / edited by Paul Richard Blum ; translated by Brian McNeil.
Publication: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2010.

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Blum, Paul Richard.

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1 online resource (vii, 323 p.)

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Philosophen der Renaissance. English (Online)

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Access restricted to authorized users.

Contents

Introduction: philosophy in the Renaissance / Paul Richard Blum -- Ramon Lull (1232-1316) : the activity of God and the hominization of the world / Charles Lohr -- George Gemistos Plethon (ca. 1360-1454), George of Trebizond (1396-1472), and Cardinal Bessarion (1403-1472) : the controversy between Platonists and Aristotelians in the fifteenth century / Peter Schulz -- Lorenzo Valla (1406/7-1457) : humanism as philosophy / Paul Richard Blum -- Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464) : squaring the circle : politics, piety, and rationality / Detlef Thiel -- Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) : philosophy of private and public life and of art / Michaela Boenke -- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494) : the synthetic reconciliation of all philosophies / Stephane Toussaint -- Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) : the aesthetic of the one in the soul / Tamara Albertini -- Pietro Pomponazzi (1462-1525) : secular aristotelianism in the Renaissance / Jill Kraye -- Niccoli Macchiavelli (1469-1527) : a good state for bad people / Heinrich C. Kuhn -- Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486-1535) : philosophical magic, empiricism, and skepticism / Wolf-Dieter Müller-Jahncke and Paul Richard Blum -- Juan Luis Vives (1492/93-1540) : a pious eclectic / D.C. Andersson -- Philipp Melanchthon (1497-1560) : reformer and philosopher / Günter Frank -- Petrus Ramus (1515-1572) : method and reform / Sachiko Kusukawa -- Bernardino Telesio (1509-1588) : new fundamental principles of nature / Cees Leijenhorst -- Jacopo Zabarella (1533-1589) : the structure and method of scientific knowledge / Heikki Mikkeli -- Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) : philosophy as the search for self-identity / Reto Luzius Fetz -- Francesco Patrizi (1529-1597) : new philosophies of history, poetry, and the world / Thomas Leinkauf -- Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) : clarifying the shadows of ideas / Eugenio Canone -- Francisco Suárez (1548-1617) : scholasticism after humanism / Emmanuel J. Bauer -- Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) : the revolution of knowledge from the prison / Germana Ernst.

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