دانلود کتاب Julius Caesar Scaliger, Renaissance Reformer of Aristotelianism: A Study of His Exotericae Exercitationes

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Acknowledgements vii Introduction 1 1 Creation, the Trinity, and Prisca theologia 15 1 Introduction 15 2 God as Efficient Cause 16 3 Creatio ex nihilo 20 4 The Trinity 22 5 Prisca theologia 24 6 Conclusion 28 2 Against the World-Soul 32 1 Introduction 32 2 God’s Triune Power 33 3 The Soul and Heat 37 4 Form, the Soul, and the Platonic Idea 42 5 Platonic Sublunary God and Aristotelian Nature 45 6 The Order and Unity of the World 47 7 Conclusion 51 3 The Best Possible World 53 1 Introduction 53 2 The Number of Species 55 3 The Possibility of a Better World 56 4 Humans in the Hierarchy of Being 60 5 The Completeness of the World 63 6 Conclusion 68 4 Void and Place 71 1 Introduction 71 2 Cardano, Averroes, and “Recent Philosophers” 72 3 The Double Performance of Form 77 4 Place as Void 82 5 Against Aristotle and Scotus 84 6 Conclusion 86 5 Angels and Intelligences 88 1 Introduction 88 2 Cardano and the Naturalists 89 3 The Nature and Attributes of Intelligences 92 4 Celestial Movements and the Imitation of God 94 5 Cognition of Intelligences 98 6 Angelic Motion, Prime Matter, and the Value of Learning 103 7 On Copernicus and Melanchthon 106 8 Conclusion 108 6 Generation and Form 110 1 Introduction 110 2 Doctrinal Background 111 3 Criticism of Fernel 113 4 Spontaneous Generation 116 5 Generation from Seeds 118 6 Human Generation 123 7 The Formative and Informative Souls 125 8 Plastic Power 131 9 The Soul as the Divine Fifth Essence 135 10 Conclusion 142 7 Mixture 145 1 Introduction 145 2 Criticism of Avicenna 146 3 A New Definition of Mixture 149 4 Objections of Basson and Sennert 152 5 Form as Mixture 153 6 Creation of Mixtures 157 7 Scaliger and the Franciscan Tradition 160 8 Conclusion 162 General Conclusion 164 Bibliography 181 Index 208