Medieval Western philosophy

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.

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

Mereology is the theory which deals with parts and wholes in the concrete sense, and this study follows its varied fortunes during the Middle Ages.

Die Sprach- und Zeichentheorie des spaten 13.

Diese Studie untersucht die Rezeption der Nous-Problematik im deutschen und georgischen Denken des Mittelalters und zeigt sowohl Gemeinsamkeiten als auch Differenzen bei der Analyse der zur Behandlung ausgewahlten Texte auf.

Die Arbeit versucht uber drei, eigens gekennzeichnete und fur Wilhelm Ockham (1285-1347) ausgewiesene Beweisarten (Induktion, Uberredungsbeweis, Widerlegungsbeweis), die in einer Fulle von Beispielen dokumentiert werden, die Begrundung seiner z.

This study aims to present a comparative analysis of philosophical theories of universals espoused by the foremost representatives of the three main schools of early modern scholastic thought.

Se trata de una historia clara y expuesta con rigor y sencillez, donde destaca una excelente linea argumentativa, muy ponderada en cuanto a la interpretacion de los autores, sin dejarse llevar por partidismos, sino concediendo relevancia a las corrientes que han ejercido mayor influjo en la filosofia posterior (en este caso, de senalar la atencion prestada a autores como Juan Escoto Erigena y Juan Duns Escoto, situados en la obra a la par de Tomas de Aquino, cosa poco usual, dada la tradicional orientacion neotomista de los manuales al uso en esta disciplina).

Este volumen recoge las lecciones dictadas por el autor en las Gifford Lectures de 1931, en la Universidad de Aberdeen.

En las últimas décadas, la figura de Juan Duns Escoto (c.

Nuestro tiempo, gravitado en su modo de pensar por el vasto panorama que las ciencias han obtenido sobre la naturaleza del universo y de la vida, suele encarar bajo una mirada científica la resolución del problema en torno al origen y la eternidad del mundo.

En este nuevo libro, el filósofo francés Rémi Brague señala cuál es el problema fundamental de la modernidad: ha dejado de considerar el mundo creado y la humanidad como intrínsecamente valiosos.

En este nuevo libro, el filósofo francés Rémi Brague señala cuál es el problema fundamental de la modernidad: ha dejado de considerar el mundo creado y la humanidad como intrínsecamente valiosos.

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;The Consolation of Philosophy (3 Classic Translations by James, Cooper and Sedgefield)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;The Consolation of Philosophy (translated by Walter John Sedgefield)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

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.