Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Pietarinen, Juhani.
• Viljanen, Valtteri.

Description

x, 350 pages; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; v. 180

Uniform Title

Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 180.

Subject

• Ideengeschichte
• Power (Philosophy)
• Philosophy > History
• Philosophy
• Kosmogonie
• Energie
• Dynamis
• Aktivität
• Dynamik
• Makt > teori, filosofi
• Västerländsk filosofi > historia

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Plato's dualism : the cosmos as active and passive power / Juhani Pietarinen -- The active principle in stoic philosophy / Håvard Løkke -- Plotinus on act and power / Eyjólfur 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' 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.

ISBN

• 9789004177123
• 9004177124

LCCN

2009027839

OCLC

• ocn401164554
• 401164554
• SCSB-9580335

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library