Description - Philosophy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: Conversations with Aristotle by Constance Blackwell
A re-evaluation of early modern philosophy which takes issue with the received notion of a "revolution" in philosophical thought in the 17th century, making the case for treating the 16th and 17th centuries together. Taking up charles Schmitt's formulation of the many "Aristotelianisms" of the period, the papers bring our the variety and richness of approaches to Aristotle, rather than treating his as a homogeneous system of thought. Based on much new research, they provide case studies of how philosophers used, developed and reacted to the framework of Aristotelian logic, categories and distinctions, and demonstrate that Aristotelianism possessed both the flexibility and the dynamism to exert a continuing impact - even among such noted "anti-Aristotelians" as Descartes and Hobbes.
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