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This landmark study examines the role played by the rediscovery of the writings of the ancient atomists, Epicurus and Lucretius, in the articulation of the major philosophical systems of the seventeenth century, and, more broadly, their influence on the evolution of natural science and moral and political philosophy. The target of sustained and trenchant philosophical criticism by Cicero, and of opprobrium by the Christian Fathers of the early Church, for its unflinching commitment to the absence of divine supervision and the finitude of life, the Epicurean philosophy surfaced again in the period of the Scientific Revolution, when it displaced scholastic Aristotelianism. Both modern social contract theory and utilitarianism in ethics were grounded in its tenets. Catherine Wilson shows how the distinctive Epicurean image of the natural and social worlds took hold in philosophy, and how it is an acknowledged, and often unacknowledged presence in the writings of Descartes, Gassendi, Hobbes, Boyle, Locke, Leibniz, Berkeley. With chapters devoted to Epicurean physics and cosmology, the corpuscularian or "mechanical" philosophy, the question of the mortality of the soul, the grounds of political authority, the contested nature of the experimental philosophy, sensuality, curiosity, and the role of pleasure and utility in ethics, the author makes a persuasive case for the significance of materialism in seventeenth-century philosophy without underestimating the depth and significance of the opposition to it, and for its continued importance in the contemporary world. Lucretius's great poem, On the Nature of Things, supplies the frame of reference for this deeply-researched inquiry into the origins of modern philosophy.

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In his influential philosophical work Insight, Bernard Lonergan made the intriguing and problematic claim that "the polymorphism of consciousness is the one and only key to philosophy." In Lonergan on Philosophical Pluralism, Gerard Walmsley examines Lonergan's many discussions of the different forms of human consciousness, as well as his sustained responses to the problems raised by philosophical and cultural pluralism. Looking closely at Lonergan's thoughts on patterns of experience, different levels of consciousness, and the differentiations of consciousness that occur through the historical development of individual human minds, Walmsley shows how polymorphic consciousness allows individuals to understand a range of philosophical positions. By understanding this range, an individual is able to sympathetically and critically appreciate different positions. Testing the strength of Lonergan's position, he directly engages postmodern thought and comparative philosophy to demonstrate that Lonergan's account of polymorphic consciousness provides a better basis for a positive evaluation of difference than does the work of many postmodern thinkers. An ambitious and soundly argued work, Lonergan on Philosophical Pluralism is both an illuminating study of Lonergan's thought, and an intriguing proposal for how difference and pluralism can be understood.

Pluralism. --- Difference (Philosophy) --- Consciousness. --- Apperception --- Mind and body --- Perception --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Spirit --- Self --- Monadology --- Monism --- Reality --- Lonergan, Bernard J. F. --- Consciousness --- Pluralism --- 1 LONERGAN, BERNARD --- 1 LONERGAN, BERNARD Filosofie. Psychologie--LONERGAN, BERNARD --- Filosofie. Psychologie--LONERGAN, BERNARD --- Lonergan, Bernardo --- Lonergan, Bernard --- Lonergan, B. --- Lonergan, B. J. F. --- Lonergan, Bernard J. F.‏

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Philosophical anthropology --- General ethics --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Anthropology --- Dualism --- Ethics --- Sacrifice --- #SBIB:39A3 --- Burnt offering --- Worship --- Deontology --- Ethics, Primitive --- Ethology --- Moral philosophy --- Morality --- Morals --- Philosophy, Moral --- Science, Moral --- Philosophy --- Values --- Idealism --- Materialism --- Monism --- Occasionalism --- Realism --- Antropologie: geschiedenis, theorie, wetenschap (incl. grondleggers van de antropologie als wetenschap)

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Sam Gillespie's The Mathematics of Novelty presents a new account of Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze, identifying conceptual impasses in their philosophical projects and proposing a way through by recourse to the psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan.

Mathematics. --- Philosophy. --- Ontology --- Materialism --- Metaphysics --- Philosophy --- Mathematics --- Philosophy & Religion --- Math --- Mental philosophy --- Physicalism --- Being --- Science --- Humanities --- God --- Philosophy of mind --- Animism --- Positivism --- Dualism --- Idealism --- Mechanism (Philosophy) --- Monism --- Realism --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Substance (Philosophy) --- Badiou, Alain. --- Deleuze, Gilles, --- Deleuze, G. --- Delëz, Zhilʹ, --- Dūlūz, Jīl, --- Delezi, Jier, --- دولوز، جيل --- Badiou, Alain --- Badiou, A. --- Badiu, Alen, --- Badiou, Alan, --- Bādiyū, Ālān, --- Бадиу, Ален, --- باديو, آلان, --- באדיו, אלן, --- アラン・バディウ, --- 巴迪欧, 阿兰,

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Explaining the Cosmos is a major reinterpretation of Greek scientific thought before Socrates. Focusing on the scientific tradition of philosophy, Daniel Graham argues that Presocratic philosophy is not a mere patchwork of different schools and styles of thought. Rather, there is a discernible and unified Ionian tradition that dominates Presocratic debates. Graham rejects the common interpretation of the early Ionians as "material monists" and also the view of the later Ionians as desperately trying to save scientific philosophy from Parmenides' criticisms. In Graham's view, Parmenides plays a constructive role in shaping the scientific debates of the fifth century BC. Accordingly, the history of Presocratic philosophy can be seen not as a series of dialectical failures, but rather as a series of theoretical advances that led to empirical discoveries. Indeed, the Ionian tradition can be seen as the origin of the scientific conception of the world that we still hold today.

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