TY - BOOK ID - 50443578 TI - Della mente sovrana del mondo AU - Rossi, Tommaso AU - Evangelista, Roberto PY - 2014 SN - 9788890871207 PB - Istituto per la storia del pensiero filosofico e scientifico moderno - National Research Council DB - UniCat KW - Philosophy KW - Philosophy & Religion KW - Matter KW - Southern Italian culture KW - Baruch Spinoza KW - Mind-body relation KW - Tommaso Rossi UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:50443578 AB - Tommaso Rossi (1673-1743), Abbot of Montefusco in the Kingdom of Naples, devoted his life to metaphysical and theological studies and had epistolary relations with Giambattista Vico. In his philosophical works "Dellanimo delluomo" and "Della mente sovrana del mondo", he faced the problem of human nature and of the nature of Gods mind, crossing some key-questions in the philosophy of modern age, such as the mind-body relation, the possibility for the human knowledge to know the natural and divine things, and the definition of the matter. Tommaso Rossis thought, hostile to all forms of atheism and materialism, took part in the philosophical debate which, from Locke to Descartes and Spinoza, tried to define the new field and the new role of natural science. "Della mente sovrana del mondo" (1743), whose third part is dedicated to the exam of Spinozas philosophical system, is an important document, not only of the reception of Spinoza, but also of the philosophical redefinition for a cosmological and gnoseological order where the human wit plays a very important role. ER -