Medieval Western philosophy

Ten leading scholars introduce all the important aspects of Aquinas'' thought.

The topic of certitude is much debated today.

Byzantinists entered the study of emotion with Henry Maguire's ground-breaking article on sorrow, published in 1977.

In this text Stacey traces the formative impact of Seneca''s political philosophy upon medieval and Renaissance thinking about princely government.

Renaissance writers habitually drew upon the idioms and images of the schoolroom in their depictions of emotional experience.

Modern developments in philosophy have provided us with tools, logical and methodological, that were not available to Medieval thinkers - a development that has its dangers as well as opportunities.

Hobbes on Legal Authority and Political Obligation develops a new interpretation of Hobbes's theory of political obligation.

The Arguments of Aquinas is intended for readers with philosophical interests, who may not be specialists in medieval philosophy.

In diesem Band werden die abschließenden Erörterungen der ›Untersuchungen über die Wahrheit‹ vorgelegt, die Thomas von Aquin zwischen 1256 und 1259 in Paris verfasst hat.

Remembering Boethius explores the rich intersection between the reception of Boethius and the literary construction of aristocratic identity, focusing on a body of late-medieval vernacular literature that draws on the Consolation of Philosophy to represent and reimagine contemporary experiences of exile and imprisonment.

Perhaps one of the most striking characteristics of later medieval philosophy and science is the remarkable unity with which the different fields of investigation were articulated to each other, in particular with respect to the methodology used.

A collection of the influential ethical writings of medieval philosopher William of Ockham, published in English for the first time.

How cultural categories shaped--and were shaped by--new ideas about controlling nature Ranging from alchemy to necromancy, "e;books of secrets"e; offered medieval readers an affordable and accessible collection of knowledge about the natural world.

A comprehensive account of Thomas Aquinas''s understanding of virtue, for scholars in ethics, medieval philosophy, and theology.

Der Band verbindet im ersten Teil die wirtschaftlichen Entwicklungen des 15.

The previous collection by Constant J.

Thomas Aquinas (1224/6-1274) lived an active, demanding academic and ecclesiastical life that ended while he was still comparatively young.

Die Frage nach der Laien in der Philosophie des späteren Mittelalters wurde bis jetzt kaum oder gar nicht thematisiert.

Running through the articles in this volume is the theme of the appropriation and subsequent naturalization of Greek science by scholars in the world of medieval Islam.

The first full-length treatment of Ibn Gabirol''s philosophy in English, providing a new approach to the philosophy of the Fons Vitae.

Were the most serious philosophers of the millennium 200 A.

This book provides a fresh reading of Aquinas' metaphysics in the light of insights from the works of Frege.

Central topics in medieval logic are here treated in a way that is congenial to the modern reader, without compromising historical reliability.

the demise of the logical positivism programme.

In this 2001 volume, sixteen specially-commissioned essays discuss major areas of the philosophy and theology of Augustine of Hippo.

The volume brings together seventeen studies on Avicenna by Dimitri Gutas, written over the past twenty-five years.

First Published in 1999.

The first volume of the collected major articles of Richard M.

Das Erkenntnisziel dieses Buches liegt in der Bedeutung des antiken Erbes für die Ausbildung der frühneuzeitlichen Ästhetik – oder schlicht: der Ästhetik.

This book offers a comparative study of emotion in Arabic Islamic and English Christian contemplative texts, c.

This book explores a wide range of topics relating to scientific and religious learning in the work of Bishop Robert Grosseteste (c.

Engaging Eriugena, Eckhart and Cusanus contains two new essays and nine others published between 2005 and 2019.

In So What's New about Scholasticism?

The work of Thomas Aquinas has always enjoyed a privileged position as a pillar of Catholic theology, but for centuries his standing among western philosophers was less sure.

Descartes has long been recognized as occupying a pivotal position in Western philosophy.

First published in 1964, Renaissance & Seventeenth - Century Studies contains essays which fall into two groups.

In Machines of the Mind, Katharine Breen proposes that medieval personifications should be understood neither as failed novelistic characters nor as instruments of heavy-handed didacticism.

In order to preserve contemporary understandings of the sciences, many figures of the Divine Action Project (DAP) held that God could never violate or suspend a law of nature, causing the marginalization of miracles from scholarly theology-science dialogue.

The Logic of Love in The Canterbury Tales argues that Geoffrey Chaucer's magnum opus draws inventively on the resources of late medieval logic to conceive of love as an "e;insoluble.

This is the first volume of essays devoted to Aristotelian formal causation and its relevance for contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of science.

This volume, first published in 2003, spans a millennium of thought extending from Augustine to Thomas Aquinas and into the fourteenth century.

The medieval philosopher and theologian John Duns Scotus (1266-1308) was one of the great thinkers of Western intellectual culture, exerting a considerable influence over many centuries.

In this book, Henrik Lagerlund offers students, researchers, and advanced general readers the first complete history of what is perhaps the most famous of all philosophical problems: skepticism.

A cutting-edge study of human nature in early Franciscan thought which illustrates its extensive use of Islamic and Jewish philosophy.

In seinem Hauptwerk De divisione naturae entwirft Eri(u)gena, der nach Augustinus und Anselm von Canterbury bedeutendste Philosoph und Theologe des frühen Mittelalters, auf platonischer und aristotelischer Basis sein originäres System, das ontologische, kosmologische und anthropologische Fragen umfassend erörtert.