Part II - The Renaissance View of Nature           

 

    I.   The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

          Anti-Aristotelianism

          Renaissance Cosmology: First Stage

          Copernicus

          Renaissance Cosmology: Second Stage

          Bacon

          Galileo

          Mind and Matter: Materialism

          Spinoza

              Method

                God

                Substance and Attributes

          Newton

          Leibniz

              Substance

                Extension versus Force

                Summary: Contrast between Greek and Renaissance Cosmology

 

    II.  The Eighteenth Century

          Berkeley

              Matter as a Meaningless Term

              Science and Abstract Ideas

              God and the Existence of Things

          Kant

              The Way of Critical Philosophy

              The Structure of Rational Thought

              The Categories of Thought and the Forms of Intuition

              Phenomenal and Noumenal Reality

              Transcendental Ideas of Pure Reason as Regulative Concepts

    III. The Transition to the Modern View of Nature

          Hegel

              The Nature of Reality

              Logic and the Dialectical Process

              The Philosophy of Nature