Time and the science of the soul in early modern philosophy / / by Michael Edwards

• Autore: Edwards Michael <1938->
• Pubblicazione: Leiden [Netherlands] : , : Brill, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (234 p.)
• Disciplina: 115
• Soggetto topico: Time; Soul
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: part one. Aristotelian and late scholastic theories of time and the soul -- part two. Time and the science of the soul in the new philosophy.
• Sommario/riassunto: For many early modern philosophers, particularly those influenced by Aristotle’s Physics and De anima , time had an intimate connection to the human rational soul. This connection had wide-ranging implications for metaphysics, natural philosophy and politics: at its heart was the assumption that man was not only a rational, but also a temporal, animal. In Time and the Science of the Soul in Early Modern Philosophy , Michael Edwards traces this connection from late Aristotelian commentaries and philosophical textbooks to the natural and political philosophy of two of the best-known ‘new philosophers’ of the seventeenth century, Thomas Hobbes and René Descartes. The book demonstrates both time’s importance as a philosophical problem, and the intellectual fertility and continued relevance of Aristotelian philosophy into the seventeenth century.
• Titolo autorizzato: Time and the science of the soul in early modern philosophy
• ISBN: 90-04-23233-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824067403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; ; v. 224.