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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Kuni SakamotoPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 26 Weight: 0.473kg ISBN: 9789004310094ISBN 10: 9004310096 Pages: 213 Publication Date: 11 August 2016 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements vii Introduction 1 1 Creation, the Trinity, and Prisca theologia 15 1 Introduction 15 2 God as Efficient Cause 16 3 Creatio ex nihilo 20 4 The Trinity 22 5 Prisca theologia 24 6 Conclusion 28 2 Against the World-Soul 32 1 Introduction 32 2 God's Triune Power 33 3 The Soul and Heat 37 4 Form, the Soul, and the Platonic Idea 42 5 Platonic Sublunary God and Aristotelian Nature 45 6 The Order and Unity of the World 47 7 Conclusion 51 3 The Best Possible World 53 1 Introduction 53 2 The Number of Species 55 3 The Possibility of a Better World 56 4 Humans in the Hierarchy of Being 60 5 The Completeness of the World 63 6 Conclusion 68 4 Void and Place 71 1 Introduction 71 2 Cardano, Averroes, and Recent Philosophers 72 3 The Double Performance of Form 77 4 Place as Void 82 5 Against Aristotle and Scotus 84 6 Conclusion 86 5 Angels and Intelligences 88 1 Introduction 88 2 Cardano and the Naturalists 89 3 The Nature and Attributes of Intelligences 92 4 Celestial Movements and the Imitation of God 94 5 Cognition of Intelligences 98 6 Angelic Motion, Prime Matter, and the Value of Learning 103 7 On Copernicus and Melanchthon 106 8 Conclusion 108 6 Generation and Form 110 1 Introduction 110 2 Doctrinal Background 111 3 Criticism of Fernel 113 4 Spontaneous Generation 116 5 Generation from Seeds 118 6 Human Generation 123 7 The Formative and Informative Souls 125 8 Plastic Power 131 9 The Soul as the Divine Fifth Essence 135 10 Conclusion 142 7 Mixture 145 1 Introduction 145 2 Criticism of Avicenna 146 3 A New Definition of Mixture 149 4 Objections of Basson and Sennert 152 5 Form as Mixture 153 6 Creation of Mixtures 157 7 Scaliger and the Franciscan Tradition 160 8 Conclusion 162 General Conclusion 164 Bibliography 181 Index 208ReviewsSakamoto has provided a very useful glimpse into the philosophical notions underpinning Scaliger's system of thought, as well as a very welcome addition to the field. - David A. Lines (University of Warwick), Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. LXX, No. 4, 1482-1483 Sakamoto's book [...] presents central strands of Scaliger's most important work in natural philosophy, a thousand-page critique of Girolamo Cardano's De Subtilitate, as a systematically integrated whole. - Andreas Blank (Bard College Berlin), Journal of the History of Philosophy, 55:3 (July 2017), 543-544 Author InformationKuni Sakamoto, Ph.D. (2012) in history of science, University of Tokyo, is an affiliated researcher at the Center for the History of Philosophy and Science, Radboud University Nijmegen. He has published on early modern natural philosophy, with a particular focus on its interaction with theology and philology. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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