Early Modern philosophers looked for inspiration to the later ancient thinkers when they rebelled against the dominant Platonic and Aristotelian traditions.
Leading historians of Philosophy explore the connections between Hellenistic and Early Modern Philosophy by taking account of new scholarly and philosop.
These new essays offer precisely that.
The impact of the Hellenistic philosophers on such philosophers as Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza, and Locke was profound and is ripe for reassessment.
Early Modern philosophers looked for inspiration to the later ancient thinkers when they rebelled against the dominant Platonic and Aristotelian traditions