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Epicureanism at the origins of modernity / Catherine Wilson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.Description: x, 304 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0199238812
  • 9780199238811
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 187 22
LOC classification:
  • B512 .W55 2008
Contents:
Atomism and mechanism -- Corpuscular effluvia : between imagination and experiment -- Order and disorder -- Mortality and metaphysics -- Empiricism and mortalism -- Some rival systems -- The social contract -- The problem of materialism in the New essays -- Robert Boyle and the study of nature -- The sweetness of living.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [278]-296) and index.

Atomism and mechanism -- Corpuscular effluvia : between imagination and experiment -- Order and disorder -- Mortality and metaphysics -- Empiricism and mortalism -- Some rival systems -- The social contract -- The problem of materialism in the New essays -- Robert Boyle and the study of nature -- The sweetness of living.

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