The world as active power
Subtitle: studies in the history of European reason
By: edited by Juhani Pietarinen and Valtteri Viljanen.
Contributors: Pietarinen, Juhani.; Viljanen, Valtteri .
Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history -- v. 180
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9789004177123
Subjects: Power (Philosophy); Philosophy -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Plato's dualism : the cosmos as active and passive power / Juhani Pietarinen; title: The active principle in stoic philosophy /  Havard Lokke; title: Plotinus on act and power /  Eyjolfur Kjalar Emilsson; title: Power and activity in early medieval philosophy / Tomas Ekenberg; title: Power and possibility in Thomas Aquinas / Andreas Schmidt; title: Causal power in Descartes' mind-body union / Juhani Pietarinen; title: De novo creat : Descartes on action, interaction, and continuous creation / Timo Kajamies; title: Motion and reason : Hobbes's difficulties with the idea of active power / Juhani Pietarinen; title: Spinoza's actualist model of power/ valtteri viljanen; title: Leibniz on force, activity, and passivity / Arto Repo and Valtteri Viljanen; title: Kant on force and activity / Arto Repo and Hemmo Laiho; title: Differences that are none : Hegel's theory of force in the phenomenology of spirit / Andreas Schmidt; title: Schopenhauer's twofold dynamism / Valtteri Viljanen.