The world as active power  studies in the history of European reason /  [electronic resource] : 
edited by Juhani Pietarinen and Valtteri Viljanen. 
 - Leiden ;  Boston :  Brill,  2009. 
 - x, 350 p. 
 - Brill's studies in intellectual history,  v. 180  0920-8607 ; .
 - Brill's studies in intellectual history ;  v. 180. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Plato's dualism : the cosmos as active and passive power / Juhani Pietarinen -- The active principle in stoic philosophy /  Havard Lokke -- Plotinus on act and power /  Eyjolfur Kjalar Emilsson -- Power and activity in early medieval philosophy / Tomas Ekenberg -- Power and possibility in Thomas Aquinas / Andreas Schmidt -- Causal power in Descartes' mind-body union / Juhani Pietarinen -- De novo creat : Descartes on action, interaction, and continuous creation / Timo Kajamies -- Motion and reason : Hobbes's difficulties with the idea of active power / Juhani Pietarinen -- Spinoza's actualist model of power/ valtteri viljanen -- Leibniz on force, activity, and passivity / Arto Repo and Valtteri Viljanen -- Kant on force and activity / Arto Repo and Hemmo Laiho -- Differences that are none : Hegel's theory of force in the phenomenology of spirit / Andreas Schmidt -- Schopenhauer's twofold dynamism / Valtteri Viljanen. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2013. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Power (Philosophy)<br/>Philosophy--History.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BD438  / .W67 2009eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>190