The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy

CONTENTS List of figures vii
Acknowledgments viii
Notes on contributors ix
Chronology xii
1 Introduction
JAMES HANKINS 1
PART I CONTINUITY AND REVIVAL 11
2 The philosopher and Renaissance culture
ROBERT BLACK 13
3 Humanism, scholasticism, and Renaissance philosophy
JAMES HANKINS 30
4 Continuity and change in the Aristotelian tradition
LUCA BIANCHI 49
5 The revival of Platonic philosophy
CHRISTOPHER S. CELENZA 72
6 The revival of Hellenistic philosophies
JILL KRAYE 97
7 Arabic philosophy and Averroism
DAG NIKOLAUS HASSE 113
8 How to do magic, and why: philosophical prescriptions
BRIAN P. COPENHAVER 137
PART II TOWARD MODERN PHILOSOPHY 171
9 Nicholas of Cusa and modern philosophy
DERMOT MORAN 173
10 Lorenzo Valla and the rise of humanist dialectic
LODI NAUTA 193
11 The immortality of the soul
PAUL RICHARD BLUM 211
12 Philosophy and the crisis of religion
PETER HARRISON 234
13 Hispanic scholastic philosophy
JOHN P. DOYLE 250
14 New visions of the cosmos
MIGUEL A. GRANADA 270
15 Organizations of knowledge
ANN M. BLAIR 287
16 Humanistic and scholastic ethics
DAVID A. LINES 304
17 The problem of the prince
ERIC NELSON 319
18 The significance of Renaissance philosophy
JAMES HANKINS 338
Appendix: Brief biographies of Renaissance philosophers 346
Bibliography 361
Index 401