Robert J Roecklein: 5 books
Plato versus Parmenides
The Debate over Coming-into-Being in Greek Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Plato versus Parmenides investigates the concept of genesis, or coming into being, a problem that has absorbed the greatest philosophical thinkers. Robert J. Roecklein explores two philosophical giants who tackled this issue: Plato and Parmenides from Elea. Particularly interesting to Roecklein is...
Machiavelli and Epicureanism
An Investigation into the Origins of Early Modern Political Thought
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
This book investigates the influence of Epicurean physics on the argument developed in Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy. Towards this end, the full philosophical history and origins of atomist philosophy are investigated during the first three chapters. Plato’s critique of the atomist philosophy,...
Locke, Hume, and the Treacherous Logos of Atomism
The Eclipse of Democratic Values in the Early Modern Period
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Physics, Philosophy of language, Neurobiology, Philosophy of Perception, Modern Political Philosophy—all share a common philosophical foundation: atomism. The theory of atomism that is developed in the writing of Einstein, Bohr, Schrodinger, and Reichenbach shares...
Politicized Physics in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy
Essays on Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, and Spinoza
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
In the origins of Western philosophical thought, doctrines of physics intertwined with the debate between political philosophers. It is for this reason that Plato devoted his dialogues Theatetus and Parmenides to investigating and meeting the arguments of his principal philosophical adversaries. The...
Kant’s Philosophy and the Momentum of Modernity
The Metaphysics of Fact Determination
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019
This book is both a careful study of Immanuel Kant’s work and the context of that work in the movement known as early modern philosophy. The chief interest of the author concerns the philosophy of perception that is manifest in Kant’s doctrines of the transcendental aesthetic and the concept of...