The Metaphysics of Henry More

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Reid, Jasper (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Σειρά: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées, 207
• Θέματα: Philosophy.; Religion.; History.; History of Philosophy.; History of Science.; Religious Studies, general.

From his correspondence with Descartes in the 1640s to his discussions with Isaac Newton in the 1680s, Henry More (1614–1687) was a central figure in seventeenth-century philosophy. Notwithstanding his occasional portrayal as a rather eccentric anachronism, excessively wedded to the Neoplatonism of...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction
• 1.1. The Place of Henry More in Seventeenth-Century Thought
• 1.2. More’s Goals, Targets and Influences
• 1.3. Epistemology and Rhetoric
• 2. Atoms and Void
• 2.1. Background
• 2.2. Henry More on Atoms
• 2.3. The Void
• 2.4. The Extension of the Universe, and Extramundane Void
• 2.5. Impenetrability
• 2.6. Atomic Shape. 3. Hyle, Atoms and Space
• 3.1. Background
• 3.2. Hyle, Atoms and Space in More’s Philosophical Poems
• 3.3. More’s Equivocation on the Nature of Hyle, 1653–1662
• 3.4. More’s Mature Conception of Hyle
• 4. Real Space
• 4.1. Background
• 4.2. The Immobility of the Parts of Space I: More’s Cylinder
• 4.3. The Immobility of the Parts of Space II: The Reciprocity of Motion
• 4.4. What Space Could Not Be
• 4.5. The Reception of More’s Theories of Space
• 5. Spiritual Presence
• 5.1. Background: Holenmerianism and Nullibism
• 5.2. More’s Refutation of Nullibism
• 5.3. More and Holenmerianism
• 5.4. Time and Eternity
• 6. Spiritual Extension
• 6.1. Introduction
• 6.2. Indiscerpibility
• 6.3. Penetrability
• 6.4. Self-penetration, Essential Spissitude, and Hylopathia
• 6.5. Divine Real Space
• 6.6. Divine Space before and after Henry More
• 7. Living Matter
• 7.1. Life and Soul
• 7.2. Gradual Monism in More’s Philosophical Poems
• 7.3. Life and Causation in the More-Descartes Correspondence
• 7.4. More’s Subsequent Reversal: the Case of Francis Glisson
• 7.5. Anne Conway and Francis Mercury van Helmont
• 7.6. The Eagle-Boy-Bee
• 7.7. More–Conway–van Helmont–Leibniz
• 8. Mechanism and its Limits
• 8.1. Introduction
• 8.2. Mechanism in More’s Early Works
• 8.3. The Limits of Mechanism: Some Case Studies
• 8.4. ‘Mixed Mechanics’
• 8.5. The Fate of the Mechanical Philosophy: Boyle, Newton and beyond
• 9. The Spirit of Nature
• 9.1. Background
• 9.2. Psyche, Physis, the Mundane Spright, and the Spirit of the World
• 9.3. The Spirit of Nature, and Particular Spirits
• 9.4. Occasionalism and Bungles
• 9.5. The Fate of the Spirit of Nature
• 10. The Life of the Soul
• 10.1. The Pre-Existence of the Soul
• 10.2. The Immortality of the Soul, and Aerial and Aethereal Vehicles
• 10.3. The Animal and Divine Lives
• 10.4. The Fall and Rise of the Soul
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