Medieval Western philosophy

Published in London in 1584, The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast is Giordano Bruno's first work of moral philosophy.

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.

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This book discusses the seminal role played by Edward Bernays, a nephew of Sigmund Freud, in the founding of American-style public relations n persuasive communication through manipulation of symbols n and his huge (and cynical) impact on the American economic and political scene.

This book discusses the seminal role played by Edward Bernays, a nephew of Sigmund Freud, in the founding of American-style public relations , persuasive communication through manipulation of symbols , and his huge (and cynical) impact on the American economic and political scene.

Jorge Luis Borges llegó a considerar 'La divina comedia' de Dante como un microcosmos del saber medieval.

Lo interesante de la presente investigación del medievalista Diego Alejandro Gracia Ortiz es que no se centra en los problemas sobre la pobreza y la política, sino que su foco de atención es la relación del ockhamismo con la universidad, una de las creaciones medievales de mayor resonancia en los tiempos medievales y postmedievales.

Se aborda en este volumen la revuelta realizada por Eriúgena (800-877), obstinado filósofo irlandés de la Edad Media que, apoyándose en la defensa y ejercicio de la razón frente a toda autoridad humana, interpretó la Escritura y sostuvo que el infierno no era sino un estado de consciencia; que la vida alcanza incluso a los seres que solemos pensar como inanimados; que el nombre más apropiado con que debemos llamar a Dios es "Nada"; que la Nada está más allá de todo y escapa al esfuerzo del pensamiento; y que el ser humano no es sino imagen de esa Nada.

The attribution of the Speculum Astronomiae to Albertus Magnus became a controversial issue only recently, when the great neo-Thomist historian Pierre Mandonnet suggested -- without any antecedents -- that the author was Roger Bacon rather than Albert.

Scepticism in the History of Philosophy is a dialogue between leading Latin American and North American scholars concerned with the history of scepticism from ancient times to present day philosophy.

Abelard is one of the foremost protagonists of the "e;twelfth-century Renaissance"e;.

On the most basic level, the articles brought together in the present volume aim to contribute to the charting of the (often subtle) links between the medieval and early modern periods in the fields of metaphysics, philosophical theology, and modal theory.

The Thomistic tradition takes it name from the thirteenth-century religious thinker and saint who is its source and inspiration: the Dominican Friar Thomas 1 Aquinas.

Is Aquinas's Sententia libri Ethicorum an interpretation of Aristotle based on `principles of Christian ethics'?

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

In January 1998 leading scholars from Europe, the United States, and Israel in the fields of medieval encyclopedias (Arabic, Latin and Hebrew) and medieval Jewish philosophy and science gathered together at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat-Gan, Israel, for an international conference on medieval Hebrew encyclopedias of science and philosophy.

During the seventies, there was a revival of systematic philosophy in general and of ontology in particular.

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.

In the great libraries of Europe and the United States, hidden in fading manuscripts on forgotten shelves, lie the works of medieval Hebrew logic.

Jabir ibn Hayyan, for a long time the reigning alchemical authority both in Islam and the Latin West, has exercised numerous generations of scholars.

The first Symposium consisted of three people in a cafe in Warsaw in 1973.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the legitimacy of the principle, "e;The per accidens necessarily implies the per se,"e; as it is found in the writings of St.

Keckermann remarked of the sixteenth century, "e;never from the begin- ning of the world was there a period so keen on logic, or in which more books on logic were produced and studies oflogic flourished more abun- dantly than the period-in which we live.

I first became interested in De dialectica in 1966, while I was doing re- search on Augustine's knowledge of logic.

One of the pleasures and privileges of scholarship is the opportunity to express one's gratitude to friends and colleagues upon the occasion of a publication.

As with almost all books, this one took much longer to complete than we thought when we started.

More than any other topic, prophecy represents the point at which the Divine meets the human, the Absolute meets the relative.

In the year 1985, presumed to mark the 850th anniversary of Maimonides' birth, the Sixth Jerusalem Philosophical Encounter was dedicated to Maim- onides as philosopher.

overall title and the commentary of Narboni, but in which the treatise is given a close association rath De Substantia Orbis VII, which immedi- ately follows it in the text.

Though the subject of this work, "e;nominalism and contemporary nom- inalism"e;, is philosophical, it cannot be fully treated without relating it to data gathered from a great variety of domains, such as biology and more especially ethology, psychology, linguistics and neurobiology.

Aristotle's modal syllogistic has been an object of study ever since the time of Theophrastus; but these studies (apart from an intense flowering in the Middle Ages) have been somewhat desultory.

The Latin texts collected by Leon Baudry present the late fifteenth- century debate at the University of Louvain over the truth-value of proposi- tions about future contingent events, a subject of perennial interest in phil osophy.

A confluence of scholarly interest has resulted in a revival of Thomistic scholarship across the world.

This book investigates the re-discovery of Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed by the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement in Germany of the nineteenth and beginning twentieth Germany.

This book locates Christine de Pizan's argument that women are virtuous members of the political community within the context of earlier discussions of the relative virtues of men and women.

A friend of Galileo and author of the renowned utopia The City of the Sun, Tommaso Campanella (Stilo, Calabria,1568- Paris, 1639) is one of the most significant and original thinkers of the early modern period.

Recently, there has been an upsurge of interest in the work Periphyseon of the early medieval philosopher John Scot Eriugena.

Ioane Petritsi, a twelfth-century Georgian philosopher, translated from Greek into Georgian The Elements of Theology of the Neoplatonist Proclus (fifth century) and wrote a Commentary on the entire text, with a preface and a postface.

Ce volume se propose d'evaluer la place de Pomponazzi dans la philosophie de la Renaissance, a la fois son ancrage dans des traditions medievales et sa force d'innovation.

Die vorliegende Studie zielt darauf ab, die Metaphysik Meister Eckharts auf systematische Weise darzustellen und das gemeinsame Fundament zu ermitteln, das anzeigt, dass seine spekulativen lateinischen wie auch seine von bildhaften Ausdrucksweisen geprägten deutschen Schriften inhaltlich miteinander vereinbar sind.

Die Destruktion der rationalen Psychologie als Doktrin ist, dem gängigen Urteil nach, das Verdienst von David Humes Essay Of the Immortality of the Soul und Immanuel Kants Kritik der reinen Vernunft.