ISBN:
9780230511460
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (154 pages)
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DDC:
303.60899999999998
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Overview of the argument -- Methodology -- 1 The Trouble with Force -- A first origin -- A second origin -- A third origin -- 2 Tracing the Logic of Force: Roger Bacon's De Multiplicatione specierum -- Bacon's logic of force -- The metaphysics of species -- Tracing the logic of force -- 3 Creation, Order and Violence in Thomas Aquinas -- Aquinas on violent causation -- Divine power, divine violence -- The order of the universe and the overcoming of force -- Conclusion -- 4 Albertus Magnus and Nicole Oresme on Force and Nature -- Albertus Magnus on place and force -- Oresme and the primacy of force -- The force of nature -- 5 Knowledge and Power in the Thought of Pierre d'Ailly -- Knowing what we can -- Sensation and evidence -- The power of God -- Conclusion -- 6 Hobbes' Logic of Force: The Phenomenon of Motion and the Capacities of Ratiocination -- Introduction -- Hobbes and phenomena -- The task of reason -- Reason, phenomenality, politics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
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