Early Modern Philosophers and the Renaissance Legacy

Introduction: Renaissance and Early Modern Philosophy: Mobile Frontiers and Established Outposts (Cecilia Muratori and Gianni Paganini).- Section I: The Endurance of Tradition.- 1. What's Wrong with Doing History of Renaissance Philosophy? Rudolph Goclenius and the Canon of Early Modern Philosophy (Guido Giglioni).- 2. Italian Renaissance Love Theory and the General Scholar in the Seventeenth Century (Stephen Clucas).- 3. The Critique of Scholastic Language in Renaissance Humanism and Early Modern Philosophy (Lodi Nauta).- 4. Henry More and Girolamo Cardano (Sarah Hutton).- Section II: Natural Philosophy.- 5. From Attraction and Impulsus to Motion of Liberty. Rarefaction and Condensation, Nature and Violence in Cardano, Francis Bacon, Glisson and Hale (Silvia Manzo).- 6. Telesio Among the Novatores: Telesio's Reception in the Seventeenth Century (Daniel Garber).- 7. Looking at an Earth-Like Moon and living on a Moon-Like Earth in Renaissance and Early Modern Thought (Natacha Fabbri). Section III: Changing Conceptions of the Human.- 8. Descartes, the Humanists and the Perfection of Man (Emmanuel Faye).- 9. The Return of Campanella: La Forge versus Cureau de la Chambre (Emanuela Scribano).- 10. From Animal Happiness to Human Unhappiness: Cardano, Vanini, Theophrastus redivivus (1659) (Cecilia Muratori). Section IV: Moral and Political Theory.- 11. Ethics, Politics, and Friendship in Bacon's Essays (1625): Between Past and Future (Annalisa Ceron).- 12. Thomas Hobbes Against the Aristotelian Account of the Virtues and his Renaissance Source Lorenzo Valla (Gianni Paganini).- 13. Debating "Greatness" from Machiavelli to Burton (Sara Miglietti).- 14. John Upton from Political Liberty to Critical Liberty: The Moral and Political Implications of Ancient and Renaissance Studies in the Enlightenment (John C. Laursen).- 15. Epilogue: A Story in the History of Scholarship: The Rediscovery of Tommaso Campanella (Germana Ernst).