Medieval Western philosophy

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Provides a broad framework for engaging with ideas relevant to ancient Greek and Roman science, medicine and technology.

A new interpretation of the Essais, situating Montaigne''s project of self-study in the context of a broader commitment to liberty.

This volume presents a panorama of Syriac engagement with Aristotelian philosophy primarily situated in the 6th to the 9th centuries, but also ranging to the 13th.

An integrative approach to Jewish and Muslim philosophy in al-AndalusAl-Andalus, the Iberian territory ruled by Islam from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries, was home to a flourishing philosophical culture among Muslims and the Jews who lived in their midst.

A comprehensive examination of the moral psychology of wrongdoing from a major historical figure, Thomas Aquinas.

Sullivan explores the impact of Aristotelian and Cartesian conceptions of humanness on works by Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton and Sidney.

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.

Human rights are thought to guarantee pluralism by protecting individual liberty from imposed religious conceptions of virtue.

The Latin Middle Ages were characterised by a vast array of different representations of nature.

Aquinas''s moral philosophy - the intrinsic connection between happiness and human good, human virtue, and the precepts of practical reason.

This book bridges medieval and contemporary philosophical thinkers, examining the relationship between fiction and philosophy for bringing about social change.

In some of his most famous works, John Philoponus (c.

In "e;Averroes: The Philosopher of Two Truths,"e; Dr.

This book is an introduction to trinitarian theology as it developed from the late medieval period.

Stephen Gersch charts the influence of the late Greek philosopher Proclus from his own lifetime down to the Renaissance (500–1600 CE).

This History comprises over forty specially commissioned essays by experts on the philosophy of the period 200–800 CE.

Hylomorphism is a metaphysical theory that explains the unity of material objects through a special immaterial part, a 'form'.

Introduces readers to the history of necessity and possibility, two modal concepts which play a key role in philosophy.

This book reveals how Moses ibn Ezra, Judah Halevi, Moses Maimonides, and Shem Tov ibn Falaquera understood metaphor and imagination, and their role in the way human beings describe God.

Bede and the Cosmos examines Bede's cosmology-his understanding of the universe and its laws.

Anthony Celano''s study explores how medieval authors recast Aristotle''s Nicomachean Ethics according to their own moral ideals.

Theology and the Scientific Imagination is a pioneering work of intellectual history that transformed our understanding of the relationship between Christian theology and the development of science.

Provides a reliable point of entrance to the thought of Duns Scotus.

William of Ockham (c.

This monograph proposes a new (dialogical) way of studying the different forms of correlational inference, known in the Islamic jurisprudence as qiyas.

This book analyses how the three books of visions by Hildegard of Bingen use the allegorical vision as a form of knowledge.

A collection of cutting-edge scholarship on the close interaction of philosophy with science at the birth of the modern age.

This volume provides a much needed, historically accurate narrative of the development of theories of space up to the beginning of the eighteenth century.

The Trinitarian Christology of St Thomas Aquinas brings to light the Trinitarian riches in Thomas Aquinas's Christology.

This was originally a two volume set which is now bound as one.

From the legendary psychoanalyst who wrote The Art of Loving and Escape from Freedom: A profound critique of materialism in favor of living with meaning.

The long-awaited second volume, contains seventeen major texts in ethics and political thought.

This is the definitive study of John Dee and his intellectual career.

Im Anschluß an Aristoteles suchte Thomas die Existenz Gottes auf dem Wege formeller Beweisschritte zu begründen.

Thomas Williams presents the most extensive collection of John Duns Scotus's work on ethics and moral psychology available in English.

Guardians of Republicanism analyses the political and intellectual history of Renaissance Florence-republican and princely-by focusing on five generations of the Valori family, each of which played a dynamic role in the city's political and cultural life.

Do our lives have meaning?

This volume deals with the psychological, metaphysical and scientific ideas of two major and influential Aristotelian philosophers of the Italian Renaissance - Nicoletto Vernia (d.