Atoms, Pneuma and Tranquillity: Epicurean and Stoic Themes in European Thought

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Introduction Margaret J. Osler and Letizia A. Panizza 1. Ethics and logic in stoicism Gerard Verbeke 2. Medieval connectives, Hellenistic connections: the strange case of propositional logic Calvin G. Normore 3. Stoic psychotherapy in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Petrarch's De Remediis Letizia A. Panizza 4. Alonso de Cartagena and John Calvin as interpreters of Seneca's De Clementia Nicholas G. Round 5. The Epicurean in Lorenzo Valla's On Pleasure Maristella de P. Lorch 6. Seneca's role in popularizing Epicurus in the Renaissance Louise Fothergill-Payne 7. Stoic contributions to early modern science Peter Barker 8. Fortune, fate, and divination: Gassendi's voluntarist theology and the baptism of Epicureanism Margaret J. Osler 9. Epicureanism and the creation of a privatist ethic in early seventeenth-century France Lisa Tunick Sarasohn 10. Robert Boyle on Epicurean atheism and atomism J. J. Macintosh 11. Stoic and Epicurean doctrines in Newton's system of the world B. J. T. Dobbs 12. Locke, Willis, and the seventeenth-century Epicurean soul John P. Wright 13. The Epicurean way of ideas: Gassendi, Locke, and Berkeley Thomas M. Lennon 14. The stoic legacy in the early Scottish enlightenment M. A. Stewart.