Early Modern Philosophers and the Renaissance Legacy

1. Renaissance and Early Modern Philosophy: Mobile Frontiers and Established Outposts
Cecilia Muratori, Gianni Paganini

Part I. The Endurance of Tradition

2. What’s Wrong with Doing History of Renaissance Philosophy? Rudolph Goclenius and the Canon of Early Modern Philosophy
Guido Giglioni

3. Italian Renaissance Love Theory and the General Scholar in the Seventeenth Century
Stephen Clucas

4. The Critique of Scholastic Language in Renaissance Humanism and Early Modern Philosophy
Lodi Nauta

5. Henry More and Girolamo Cardano
Sarah Hutton

Part II. Natural Philosophy

6. From Attractio and Impulsus to Motion of Liberty: Rarefaction and Condensation, Nature and Violence, in Cardano, Francis Bacon, Glisson and Hale
Silvia Manzo

7. Telesio Among the Novatores: Telesio’s Reception in the Seventeenth Century
Daniel Garber

8. Looking at an Earth-Like Moon and Living on a Moon-Like Earth in Renaissance and Early Modern Thought
Natacha Fabbri

Part III. Changing Conceptions of the Human

9. Descartes, the Humanists, and the Perfection of the Human Being
Emmanuel Faye

10. The Return of Campanella: La Forge versus Cureau de la Chambre
Emanuela Scribano

11. From Animal Happiness to Human Unhappiness: Cardano, Vanini, Theophrastus Redivivus (1659)
Cecilia Muratori

Part IV. Moral and Political Theory

12. Ethics, Politics, and Friendship in Bacon’s Essays (1625): Between Past and Future
Annalisa Ceron

13. Thomas Hobbes Against the Aristotelian Account of the Virtues and His Renaissance Source Lorenzo Valla
Gianni Paganini

14. Debating “Greatness” from Machiavelli to Burton
Sara Miglietti

15. John Upton from Political Liberty to Critical Liberty: The Moral and Political Implications of Ancient and Renaissance Studies in the Enlightenment
John Christian Laursen

Part V. Epilogue

16. A Story in the History of Scholarship: The Rediscovery of Tommaso Campanella
Germana Ernst, Cecilia Muratori, Gianni Paganini

Keywords: Philosophy, History of Philosophy, History of Science