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Cover -- Series -- Powers -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Causal Powers In Aristotle And His Predecessors -- 2 Platonic And Stoic Powers -- Reflection: Power, Nature, Body, Soul, Music -- 3 Emanationist Powers: Plotinus, Theology Of Aristotle, And Ibn Gabirol -- 4 The Power Of Possibility: Power, Nature, And Possibility In Avicenna -- Reflection: Bâ On Power -- 5 Causal Powers In The Latin Christian West -- 6 Causal Powers And Ontology In Descartes, Malebranche, And Leibniz Reflection: Taming Material Powers: From Paracelsus To Frankenstein -- 7 The Power Of Self-motion In Cavendish's Nature -- 8 Plastick Powers And The Power Of Sympathy In Cudworth And More: The Spirit Of Nature And Plastic Nature -- Reflection: Locating Powers In Early-modern Religious Imagery -- 9 Powers In Britain, 1689-1827 -- 10 The Metaphysics Of Powers In Kant And Hegel -- 11 Powers In Contemporary Philosophy -- Bibliography -- Index Edited By Julia Jorati. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Oxford Available Via World Wide Web.