Philosophers of the Renaissance
By: edited by Paul Richard Blum ; translated by Brian McNeil
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780813217260
Work titles: Philosophen der Renaissance. English
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: philosophy in the Renaissance / Paul Richard Blum; title: Ramon Lull (1232-1316) : the activity of God and the hominization of the world / Charles Lohr; title: 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; title: Lorenzo Valla (1406/7-1457) : humanism as philosophy / Paul Richard Blum; title: Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464) : squaring the circle : politics, piety, and rationality / Detlef Thiel; title: Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) : philosophy of private and public life and of art / Michaela Boenke; title: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494) : the synthetic reconciliation of all philosophies / Stephane Toussaint; title: Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) : the aesthetic of the one in the soul / Tamara Albertini; title: Pietro Pomponazzi (1462-1525) : secular aristotelianism in the Renaissance / Jill Kraye; title: Niccoli Macchiavelli (1469-1527) : a good state for bad people / Heinrich C. Kuhn; title: Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486-1535) : philosophical magic, empiricism, and skepticism / Wolf-Dieter Müller-Jahncke and Paul Richard Blum; title: Juan Luis Vives (1492/93-1540) : a pious eclectic / D.C. Andersson; title: Philipp Melanchthon (1497-1560) : reformer and philosopher / Günter Frank; title: Petrus Ramus (1515-1572) : method and reform / Sachiko Kusukawa; title: Bernardino Telesio (1509-1588) : new fundamental principles of nature / Cees Leijenhorst; title: Jacopo Zabarella (1533-1589) : the structure and method of scientific knowledge / Heikki Mikkeli; title: Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) : philosophy as the search for self-identity / Reto Luzius Fetz; title: Francesco Patrizi (1529-1597) : new philosophies of history, poetry, and the world / Thomas Leinkauf; title: Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) : clarifying the shadows of ideas / Eugenio Canone; title: Francisco Suárez (1548-1617) : scholasticism after humanism / Emmanuel J. Bauer; title: Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) : the revolution of knowledge from the prison / Germana Ernst.