Atoms, Pneuma, and Tranquillity: Epicurean and Stoic Themes in European Thought.

Dust jacket lightly rubbed, spine a bit faded due to light, otherwise a very good copy, free of markings./ Schutzumschlag leicht berieben, Buchr�cken lichtbedingt etwas ausgeblichen, sonst ein sehr gut erhaltenes Exemplar, frei von Anstreichungen. - Margaret J. Osler is Associate Professor of History at the University of Calgary. - Contents - Introduction - MARGARET J. OSLER AND LETIZIA A. PANIZZA - Ethics and logic in Stoicism - GERARD VERBEKE - Medieval connectives, Hellenistic connections: the strange case of propositional logic - CALVIN G. NORMORE - Stoic psychotherapy in the Middle Ages and - Renaissance: Petrarch�s De remediis - LETIZIA A. PANIZZA - Alonso de Cartagena and John Calvin as interpreters of - Seneca�s De dementia - NICHOLAS G. ROUND - The Epicurean in Lorenzo Valla�s On Pleasure - MARISTELLA DE P. LORCH - Seneca�s role in popularizing Epicurus in the sixteenth century - LOUISE FOTHERGILL-PAYNE - Stoic contributions to early modern science - PETER BARKER - Fortune, fate, and divination: Gassendi�s voluntarist theology and the baptism of Epicureanism - MARGARET J. OSLER - Epicureanism and the creation of a privatist ethic in early seventeenth-century France - LISA TUNICK SARASOHN - Robert Boyle on Epicurean atheism and atomism - J. J. MACINTOSH - Stoic and Epicurean doctrines in Newton�s system of the world - B. J. T. DOBBS - Locke, Willis, and the seventeenth-century Epicurean soul - JOHN P. WRIGHT - The Epicurean new way of ideas: Gassendi, Locke, and Berkeley - THOMAS M. LENNON - The Stoic legacy in the early Scottish Enlightenment - M. A. STEWART - CONTRIBUTORS. ISBN 9780521400480