Zusatztext Fascinating mixtures of old and new philosophy as there may have been! these do not challenge the need for a dividingline. In fact! I think there are indications of a definite shift which can be discerned in nearly all contributions to The Rise of Modern Philosophy Klappentext "Modern" philosophy in the West is said to have begun with Bacon and Descartes. Their methodological and metaphysical writings! in conjunction with the discoveries that marked the seventeenth-century scientific revolution! are supposed to have interred both Aristotelian and scholastic scienceand the philosophy that supported it. But did the new or "modern" philosophy effect a complete break with what preceded it? Were Bacon and Descartes untainted by scholastic influences? The theme of this book is that the new and traditional philosophies have much more in common than the orthodoxaccount suggests. The contributors consider not only modernity in metaphysics and the sciences but also the claims of Machiavelli! Hobbes! and Spinoza to have invented "modern" ethics and politics. These two aspects of "modernity" in philosophy are connected for the first time. The book offers abroad view of the early modern philosophers! covering not only the much-studied major figures but also relatively neglected writers: Mersenne! Gassendi! White! and Sergeant. Zusammenfassung The contributors to this volume examine the thought of 13 writers in all fields of philosophy and the sciences, some much studied, others relatively neglected. The essays show that the break between modern and traditional philosophy is not as complete as is usually suggested.

Fascinating mixtures of old and new philosophy as there may have been, these do not challenge the need for a dividingline. In fact, I think there are indications of a definite shift which can be discerned in nearly all contributions to The Rise of Modern Philosophy

Klappentext
"Modern" philosophy in the West is said to have begun with Bacon and Descartes. Their methodological and metaphysical writings, in conjunction with the discoveries that marked the seventeenth-century scientific revolution, are supposed to have interred both Aristotelian and scholastic science
and the philosophy that supported it. But did the new or "modern" philosophy effect a complete break with what preceded it? Were Bacon and Descartes untainted by scholastic influences? The theme of this book is that the new and traditional philosophies have much more in common than the orthodox
account suggests. The contributors consider not only modernity in metaphysics and the sciences but also the claims of Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Spinoza to have invented "modern" ethics and politics. These two aspects of "modernity" in philosophy are connected for the first time. The book offers a
broad view of the early modern philosophers, covering not only the much-studied major figures but also relatively neglected writers: Mersenne, Gassendi, White, and Sergeant.

Zusammenfassung
The contributors to this volume examine the thought of 13 writers in all fields of philosophy and the sciences, some much studied, others relatively neglected. The essays show that the break between modern and traditional philosophy is not as complete as is usually suggested.