World as Active Power

Studies in the History of European Reason

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2009-09-30
Mått:160 x 240 x 26 mm
Vikt:772 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Brill's Studies in Intellectual History
Antal sidor:352
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004177123

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Juhani Pietarinen, Ph.D. (1972) in Philosophy, University of Helsinki, is Professor Emeritus of Practical Philosophy at the University of Turku. He is the coeditor of Perspectives on Human Conduct (1988), Genes and Morality (1999) and Philosophy and Biodiversity (2004), and the author of various articles on ethics and history of philosophy.Valtteri Viljanen, Ph.D. (2007) in Philosophy, University of Turku, is Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Turku. He is the author of Spinoza's Dynamics of Being: The Concept of Power and its Role in Spinoza's Metaphysics (2007) and of various articles on history of philosophy, especially on Spinoza.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction, Juhani Pietarinen and Valtteri Viljanen1. Plato’s Power Dualism, Juhani Pietarinen2. The Active Principle in Stoic Philosophy, Håvard Løkke3. Plotinus on Act and Power, Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson4. Power and Activity in Early Medieval Thought, Tomas Ekenberg5. Power and Possibility in Thomas Aquinas, Andreas Schmid6. Causal Power in Descartes’s Mind-Body Union, Juhani Pietarinen7. De novo creat: Descartes on Action, Interaction, and Continuous Creation, Timo Kajamies8. Motion and Reason: Hobbes’s Difficulties with the Idea of Active Power, Juhani Pietarinen9. Spinoza’s Actualist Model of Power, Valtteri Viljanen10. Leibniz on Force, Activity, and Passivity, Arto Repo and Valtteri Viljanen11. Kant on Force and Activity, Hemmo Laiho and Arto Repo12. Differences that are None. Hegel’s Theory of Force in the Phenomenology of Spirit, Andreas Schmidt13. Schopenhauer’s Twofold Dynamism, Valtteri ViljanenIndex