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The Mechanization of Aristotelianism
The Late Aristotelian Setting of Thomas Hobbesâ Natural Philosophy
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This book discusses the Aristotelian setting of Thomas Hobbes' main work on natural philosophy, De Corpore (1655). Leijenhorst's study puts particular emphasis on the second part of the work, entitled Philosophia Prima. Although Hobbes presents his mechanistic philosophy of nature as an outright replacement of Aristotelian physics, he continued to use the vocabulary and arguments of sixteenth and seventeenth-century Aristotelianism. Leijenhorst shows that while in some cases this common vocabulary hides profound conceptual innovations, in other cases Hobbes' self-proclaimed "new" philosophy is simply old wine in new sacks. Leijenhorst's book substantially enriches our insight in the complexity of the rise of modern philosophy and the way it struggled with the Aristotelian heritage.
Cees Leijenhorst, Ph.D. (1998) in Philosophy, Utrecht University (Netherlands), is Research Fellow at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Natural Philosophy at Nijmegen University (Netherlands). He has published on the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes, Renaissance natural philosophy and Hermeticism.
Preface
Notice to the Reader
Abbreviations
Introduction
Hobbes and the Aristotelians
Philosophia Prima
Aristotelianism
The Scope and structure of this Study
Chapter 1 Hobbes and the Aristotelians on Prima Philosophia
Introduction
1. Prima Philosophia as a Discipline of the Non-Transcendent
2. Prima Philosophia as Physica Generalis
3. Prima Philosophia as a Science of Principles and Definitions
Chapter 2 Sense Perception and Imagination
Introduction
1. Sense Perception in the Short Tract
2. Hobbes' Later Doctrine of Sense Perception
Conclusion: Aristotelianism, Mechanicism, and Renaissance Pansensism
Chapter 3 Space and Time
Introduction
1. Hobbesâ Concept of Space
2. Hobbesâ Concept of Time
Chapter 4 Body and Accident
Introduction
1. Substance and Accident in the Short Tract
2. Hobbesâ Concept of Body in De Corpore
3. Hobbesâ Concept of Accident in De Corpore
Epilogue: The Principle of Individuation
Chapter 5 Causality, Motion and Necessity
Introduction
1. Motion, Causality and Necessity in the Short Tract
2. Causality, Motion, and Necessity in Hobbesâ Later Works
Conclusion
Bibliography
Primary Literature
Studies
Index Nominum
Notice to the Reader
Abbreviations
Introduction
Hobbes and the Aristotelians
Philosophia Prima
Aristotelianism
The Scope and structure of this Study
Chapter 1 Hobbes and the Aristotelians on Prima Philosophia
Introduction
1. Prima Philosophia as a Discipline of the Non-Transcendent
2. Prima Philosophia as Physica Generalis
3. Prima Philosophia as a Science of Principles and Definitions
Chapter 2 Sense Perception and Imagination
Introduction
1. Sense Perception in the Short Tract
2. Hobbes' Later Doctrine of Sense Perception
Conclusion: Aristotelianism, Mechanicism, and Renaissance Pansensism
Chapter 3 Space and Time
Introduction
1. Hobbesâ Concept of Space
2. Hobbesâ Concept of Time
Chapter 4 Body and Accident
Introduction
1. Substance and Accident in the Short Tract
2. Hobbesâ Concept of Body in De Corpore
3. Hobbesâ Concept of Accident in De Corpore
Epilogue: The Principle of Individuation
Chapter 5 Causality, Motion and Necessity
Introduction
1. Motion, Causality and Necessity in the Short Tract
2. Causality, Motion, and Necessity in Hobbesâ Later Works
Conclusion
Bibliography
Primary Literature
Studies
Index Nominum
All those interested in seventeenth-century philosophy and late Aristotelianism, historians of philosophy as well historians of science