Philosophical Correspondence and Unpublished Writings of Francois Hemsterhuis

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Philosophical Correspondence and Unpublished Writings of Francois Hemsterhuis

Hemsterhuis, Francois; Whistler, Daniel; van Sluis, Jacob

Edinburgh University Press

11/2023

352

Dura

Inglês

9781399525176

15 a 20 dias

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Series Introduction

Jacob van Sluis and Daniel Whistler

Hemsterhuis's Life, Works and Reception

Abbreviations



Introductions



Atheism according to Francois Hemsterhuis: Convergences with and Divergences from the German Spinoza Controversy, Claudia Melica


Hemsterhuis and Newtonian Philosophy, Henri A. Krop


The Ubiquity of Vases in Hemsterhuis's Sketches and Drawings: Making Art in Philosophy, Doing Philosophy in Art, Peter Sonderen


Hemsterhuis as a European and trans-Atlantic Political Theorist, Jonathan I. Israel





Part One: Spinozism, Atheism and Religion



Letter on Fatalism


On Prayer


Letters on the History of Philosophy to Spinoza (Hemsterhuis and Gallitzin)


On Two Kinds of Theology


Letters on Knowing, Believing and Doubting (Hemsterhuis and Gallitzin)


Prelude to the Letter on Atheism


Letter on Atheism from Diocles to Diotima


Further Reflections on Spinoza and the Spinozism Controversy


Supplement to the Letter on Fatalism





Part Two: Epistemology and the Sciences



On the Reality of Appearances


On the Relations of Matter and Soul


Fragment on Physics


On Divisibility to Infinity


On the Incommensurable


On Loss of Imagination


An Analogy between the Formation of the Body and the Formation of the Soul


Letter on the Rotation of the Planets


On Final Causes


Prelude to the Letter on Optics


Letter on Optics





Part Three: Art and Style



Letters on Geometric Style (Hemsterhuis and Gallitzin)


On Geometric Education and Aesthetic Judgment


Letters on Hesiod and the Golden Age


On the Best Shape to Give to the Feet of Vases


Further Reflections on the Best Shape to Give to the Feet of Vases


On Plato's Style in the Phaedrus and the Symposium (and Racine's Phaedra)


Letters on Diderot's Style


Catechism for a Young Painter


On the Artworks of Central Germany


Letters on Plato and the Sublime (Hemsterhuis and Gallitzin)


On Architecture and Other Arts


On Reading Goethe's Werther





Part Four: Ethics and Politics



Letter on Virtues and Vices


On Fuerstenberg's Character


On the Moral Organ


On Current Events in the Dutch Republic


Reflections on the Republic of the United Provinces


Preliminary Observations on the Constitution of the Republic of the United Provinces


On the Political Situation of the Dutch Republic


Alexis II, or on the Military


Sketch of Advice to the Council of State


On Patriotism


Letters on the French Revolution





Appendix

On the Genesis of Alexis II: The Metaphysics of the Military, Jacob van Sluis
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Immaterialism; Romanticism; Newtonism; correspondence; Baruch Spinoza; Plato; German Idealism; Francois Hemsterhuis; Socrates; Eighteenth-Century European Philosophy