Preface Introduction Part I. The Intellectual Context: The Conditions of Enquiry: 1. Manuscripts John F. D'Amico 2. Printing and censorship Paul F. Grendler 3. The Renaissance concept of philosophy Cesare Vasoli 4. Translation, terminology and style in philosophical discourse Brain P. Copenhaver 5. Humanism Paul Oskar Kristeller Part II. Philosophy and its Parts: Logic and Language: 6. Traditional logic E. J. Ashworth 7. Humanistic logic Lisa Jardine Part III. Natural Philosophy: 8. Traditional natural philosophy William A. Wallace 9. The new philosophy of nature Alfonso Ingegno 10. Astrology and magic Brian P. Copenhaver 11. Moral philosophy Jill Kraye 12. Political philosophy Quentin Skinner Part IV. Psychology: 13. The concept of psychology Katharine Park and Eckhard Kessler 14. The organic soul Katharine Park 15. The intellective soul Eckhard Kessler 16. Metaphysics Charles H. Lohr Part V. Problems of Knowledge and Action: 17. Fate, fortune, providence and human freedom Antonino Poppi 18. Theories of knowledge Richard H. Popkin 19. Epistemology of the sciences Nicholas Jardine Part VI. Philosophy and Humanistic Disciplines: 20. Rhetoric and poetics Brian Vickers 21. The theory of history Donald R. Kelley Supplementary material Appendices 22. The availability of ancient works Anthony Grafton 23. The rise of the philosophical textbook Charles B. Schmitt Bibliographies Michael J. Wilmott and Charles B. Schmitt Bibliography Michael J. Wilmott and Charles B. Schmitt Index.

The Cambridge history of Renaissance philosophy

Peter Harrison provides an account of the religious foundations of scientific knowledge. He shows how the approaches to the study of nature that emerged in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were directly informed by theological discussions about the Fall of Man and the extent to which the mind and the senses had been damaged by that primeval event. Scientific methods, he suggests, were originally devised as techniques for ameliorating the cognitive damage wrought by human sin. At its inception, modern science was conceptualized as a means of recapturing the knowledge of nature that Adam had once possessed. Contrary to a widespread view that sees science emerging in conflict with religion, Harrison argues that theological considerations were of vital importance in the framing of the scientific method.

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The Fall of Man and the Foundations of Science

THE ORIGINS OF RENAISSANCE PHILOSOPHY: SCHOLASTIC THOUGHT AND THE NEEDS OF A NEW CULTURE Any approach to the meaning of philosophy in the Renaissance requires some preliminary qualification and explanation. How far, for instance, is it permissible to speak of a specifically Renaissance philosophy – a philosophy that might be said to reflect the growing complexity of intellectual activity in this particular historical situation? May the term be applied to ways of thinking which, though current in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, perpetuate typically medieval thinking? Do the speculative currents which emerged in the mid thirteenth century, above all in Italy, represent continuity or a break with the past? How closely are scholastic natural philosophy and logic connected with the scientific revolution? Was ‘humanist rhetoric’ an obstacle to what might otherwise have been a swift and linear development? The historical significance of many of the issues discussed in this volume cannot be assessed without considering those social factors, which shattered the ideological unanimity of western Christianitas in the thirteenth century, emphasising the difference rather than the similarities between intellectual centres and ushering in new ways of thought. There is little point in trying to define the Renaissance concept of philosophy if no heed is paid to the cultural institutions emerging outside the universities, the social class and status of their members, their aims, their rivalries and their audiences. From the early fourteenth century there was a complex interaction between scholasticism and humanism with the former profiting from the methodological and linguistic advances made by the latter.

Roy W. Battenhouse

Papers

The Doctrine of Man in Calvin and in Renaissance Platonism

Evangelizing ShakespeareShakespearean Tragedy: Its Art and Christian Premises