Table of Contents

Editor's Preface Introduction Part One: Renaissance Thought and Classical Antiquity Introduction 1. The Humanist Movement 2. The Aristotelian Tradition 3. Renaissance Platonism 4. Paganism and Christianity Part Two: Renaissance Thought and the Middle Ages 5. Humanism and Scholasticism in the Italian Renaissance 6. Renaissance Philosophy and the Medieval Tradition Part Three: Renaissance Thought and Byzantine Learning 7. Italian Humanism and Byzantium 8. Byzantine and Western Platonism in the Fifteenth Century Part Four: Renaissance Concepts of Man Introduction 9. The Dignity of Man 10. The Immortality of the Soul 11. The Unity of Truth Part Five: Philosophy and Rhetoric From Antiquity to the Renaissance Introduction 12. Classical Antiquity 13. The Middle Ages 14. The Renaissance Notes Index

About the Author

Paul Oskar Kristellar is Frederick J.E. Woodbridge Professor Emeritus of philosophy at Columbia University. Michael Mooney is Associate Provost at Columbia University.