The world as active power : studies in the history of European reason /
The world as active power : studies in the history of European reason /
edited by Juhani Pietarinen and Valtteri Viljanen.
- 1 online resource.
- Brill eBook titles 2008 .
- Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 180. Brill's Studies in Intellectual History Online, ISBN: 9789004253339. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material / Introduction / Chapter One. Plato’s Dualism: The Cosmos As Active And Passive Power / Chapter Two. The Active Principle In Stoic Philosophy / Chapter Three. Plotinus On Act And Power / Chapter Four. Power And Activity In Early Medieval Philosophy / Chapter Five. Power And Possibility In Thomas Aquinas / Chapter Six. Causal Power In Descartes’ Mind-Body Union / Chapter Seven. De Novo Creat: Descartes On Action, Interaction, And Continuous Creation / Chapter Eight. Motion And Reason: Hobbes’ Difficulties With The Idea Of Active Power / Chapter Nine. Spinoza’s Actualist Model Of Power / Chapter Ten. Leibniz On Force, Activity, And Passivity / Chapter Eleven. Kant On Force And Activity / Chapter Twelve. Differences That Are None. Hegel’s Theory Of Force In The Phenomenology Of Spirit / Chapter Thirteen. Schopenhauer’s Twofold Dynamism / Bibliography / Index / J. Pietarinen and V. Viljanen -- Juhani Pietarinen and Valtteri Viljanen -- Juhani Pietarinen -- Håvard Løkke -- Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson -- Tomas Ekenberg -- Andreas Schmidt -- Juhani Pietarinen -- Timo Kajamies -- Juhani Pietarinen -- Valtteri Viljanen -- Arto Repo and Valtteri Viljanen -- Arto Repo and Hemmo Laiho -- Andreas Schmidt -- Valtteri Viljanen -- J. Pietarinen and V. Viljanen -- J. Pietarinen and V. Viljanen.
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What is the ultimate explanatory factor for the existence of the world, for all its changing phenomena and the enduring order found in it? In the history of Western thought, we can find a longstanding philosophical tendency to answer this question in terms of power: the universe is understood as an ordered whole produced by a rational power, that is, by the power of reason. That power is thought to be active in the sense of being capable of existing and acting ‘in itself’ as an infinite, eternal, and unchangeable cause of the world. The essays in this collection discuss the idea of active power in the world-explanations of Plato, the Stoics, Neoplatonism, early and late medieval scholasticism, Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, and Schopenhauer.
9789047430568
10.1163/ej.9789004177123.i-352 DOI
2009027839
20662133 bccb
Ideengeschichte
Aktivität
Dynamik
Energie
Kosmogonie
Power (Philosophy)
BD438 / .W67 2009
190
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material / Introduction / Chapter One. Plato’s Dualism: The Cosmos As Active And Passive Power / Chapter Two. The Active Principle In Stoic Philosophy / Chapter Three. Plotinus On Act And Power / Chapter Four. Power And Activity In Early Medieval Philosophy / Chapter Five. Power And Possibility In Thomas Aquinas / Chapter Six. Causal Power In Descartes’ Mind-Body Union / Chapter Seven. De Novo Creat: Descartes On Action, Interaction, And Continuous Creation / Chapter Eight. Motion And Reason: Hobbes’ Difficulties With The Idea Of Active Power / Chapter Nine. Spinoza’s Actualist Model Of Power / Chapter Ten. Leibniz On Force, Activity, And Passivity / Chapter Eleven. Kant On Force And Activity / Chapter Twelve. Differences That Are None. Hegel’s Theory Of Force In The Phenomenology Of Spirit / Chapter Thirteen. Schopenhauer’s Twofold Dynamism / Bibliography / Index / J. Pietarinen and V. Viljanen -- Juhani Pietarinen and Valtteri Viljanen -- Juhani Pietarinen -- Håvard Løkke -- Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson -- Tomas Ekenberg -- Andreas Schmidt -- Juhani Pietarinen -- Timo Kajamies -- Juhani Pietarinen -- Valtteri Viljanen -- Arto Repo and Valtteri Viljanen -- Arto Repo and Hemmo Laiho -- Andreas Schmidt -- Valtteri Viljanen -- J. Pietarinen and V. Viljanen -- J. Pietarinen and V. Viljanen.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
What is the ultimate explanatory factor for the existence of the world, for all its changing phenomena and the enduring order found in it? In the history of Western thought, we can find a longstanding philosophical tendency to answer this question in terms of power: the universe is understood as an ordered whole produced by a rational power, that is, by the power of reason. That power is thought to be active in the sense of being capable of existing and acting ‘in itself’ as an infinite, eternal, and unchangeable cause of the world. The essays in this collection discuss the idea of active power in the world-explanations of Plato, the Stoics, Neoplatonism, early and late medieval scholasticism, Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, and Schopenhauer.
9789047430568
10.1163/ej.9789004177123.i-352 DOI
2009027839
20662133 bccb
Ideengeschichte
Aktivität
Dynamik
Energie
Kosmogonie
Power (Philosophy)
BD438 / .W67 2009
190