Gassendi's Ethics

by Lisa T. Sarasohn and Pierre Gassendi

This is the first book to explore the ethical thought of Pierre Gassendi, the seventeenth-century French priest who rehabilitated Epicurean philosophy in the Western tradition. Lisa T. Sarasohn's discussion of the relationship between Gassendi's philosophy of nature and his ethics discloses the underlying unity of his philosophy and elucidates this critical figure in the intellectual revolution.Sarasohn demonstrates that Gassendi's ethics was an...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801429471
• ISBN13: 9780801429477
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher