From Locke's "Letter" to Montesquieu's "Lettres" / Edwin Curley. Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464): first modern philosopher? / Jasper Hopkins -- Marsilio Ficino on "Significatio" / Michael J.B. Allen -- Pomponazzi: moral virtue in a deterministic universe / John L. Treloar -- The secret of Pico's "Oration": Cabala and renaissance / Brian P. Copenhaver -- Between republic and monarchy? Liberty, security, and the Kingdom of France in Machiavelli / Cary Nederman and Tatiana V. GomĚez -- Montaigne, "An apology for Raymond Sebond": happiness and the poverty of reason / Bruce Silver -- The natural philosophy of Giordano Bruno / Hilary Gatti -- Francis Bacon ahd the humanistic aspects of modernity / Rose-Mary Sargent -- Hobbes's atheism / Douglas M. Jesseph -- New wine in old bottles: Gassendi and the Aristotelian origin of physics / Margaret J. Oster -- Descartes. mechanics and the mechanical philosophy / Daniel Garber -- "Presence" and "Likeness" in Arnauld's critique of Malebranche / Nancy Kendrick -- Pascal's wagers / Jeff Jordan -- Eternity and immortality in Spinoza's "Ethics" / Steven Nadler -- Occasionalism and efficacious laws in Malebranche / Micholas Jolley -- What kind of a skeptic was Bayle? / Thomas M. Lennon -- From Locke's "Letter" to Montesquieu's "Lettres" / Edwin Curley.
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