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Physiologia : Natural Philosophy in Late Aristotelian and Cartesian Thought / Dennis Des Chene.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2000Description: 1 online resource (448 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501723711
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 113 20
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations and Orthographical Conventions -- Introduction -- PART 1: Vicaria Dei -- 1. Natural Change -- 2. Motus, Potentia, Actus -- 3. Form, Privation, and Substance -- 4. Matter, Quantity, and Figure -- 5. The Structure of Physical Substance -- 6. Finality and Final Causes -- 7. Nature and Counternature -- PART II: Bodies in Motion -- 8. Motion and Its Causes -- 9. Parts of Matter -- 10. World without Ends -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Sixteenth-century Aristotelianism was the culmination of four centuries of commentary and criticism. Physiologia is one of the first books to provide an accessible and comprehensive guide to that tradition in natural philosophy. In an incisive and readable treatment, Dennis Des Chene illuminates the continuities and disruptions between medieval and modern philosophy and promotes a new understanding of the philosophical setting in which modern notions of science emerged.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781501723711

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations and Orthographical Conventions -- Introduction -- PART 1: Vicaria Dei -- 1. Natural Change -- 2. Motus, Potentia, Actus -- 3. Form, Privation, and Substance -- 4. Matter, Quantity, and Figure -- 5. The Structure of Physical Substance -- 6. Finality and Final Causes -- 7. Nature and Counternature -- PART II: Bodies in Motion -- 8. Motion and Its Causes -- 9. Parts of Matter -- 10. World without Ends -- Bibliography -- Index

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Sixteenth-century Aristotelianism was the culmination of four centuries of commentary and criticism. Physiologia is one of the first books to provide an accessible and comprehensive guide to that tradition in natural philosophy. In an incisive and readable treatment, Dennis Des Chene illuminates the continuities and disruptions between medieval and modern philosophy and promotes a new understanding of the philosophical setting in which modern notions of science emerged.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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