Gassendi's Ethics: Freedom in a Mechanistic Universe [Hardcover]

Lisa T. Sarasohn (Author)

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Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Cornell University Press (September 19, 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0801429471
ISBN-13: 978-0801429477
Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,803,878 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655), a French priest and philosopher, was absorbed by the idea of freedom. Read the first page

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New York, Thomas Hobbes, Pierre Gassendi, Renaissance Philosophy, Divine Will, French Higher Education, Syntagma Philosophicum, Thomas Aquinas, Philosophical Writings, Selected Works, The Astrological Threat, Journal of the History of Ideas, Lorenzo Valla, The Ethics of the Mechanical Universe, Extant Remains, Giovanni Pico, Influence of Gassendi, Institutio Logica, Royal Society, Two Treatises, Gassendi the Atomist, Concerning Philosophy, Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Their Predecessors, Bernard Rochot

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This book cites 100 books:

The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy by C. B. Schmitt on 11 pages
Philosophical Writings by Rene Descartes on 8 pages
On Divine Foreknowledge: Part IV of the "Concordia" (Cornell Classics in Philosophy, "Concordia") (Pt.IV) by Luis De Molina on 6 pages
The Encyclopedia of Philosophy (8 Volumes in 4) by Paul Edwards on 6 pages
Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in popular beliefs in sixteenth and seventeenth century England by Keith Thomas on 5 pages

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7 books cite this book:

Hellenistic and Early Modern Philosophy by Jon Miller in Back Matter
Encyclopedia of Ethics by Lawrence C. Becker on page 597
Augustine and Modernity (Routledge Radical Orthodoxy) by Michael Hanby in Back Matter
The History of Scepticism: From Savonarola to Bayle by Richard H. Popkin in Back Matter
The History of Scepticism: From Savonarola to Bayle by Richard H. Popkin in Back Matter

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