Dieser Text erscheint zunächst als das abstrakteste Werk von Cusanus, doch ist es mehr als nur eine begriffliche Untersuchung: vielmehr handelt es sich darum, dem mit den Augen der Seele geschauten Bild Gottes in Worten immer besseren und vollkommeneren Ausdruck zu verleihen.
Descartes and the First Cartesians adopts the perspective that we should not approach Rene Descartes as a solitary thinker, but as a philosopher who constructs a dialogue with his contemporaries, so as to engage them and elements of his society into his philosophical enterprise.
Mit dem »Convivio«, dem ersten bedeutenden philosophischen Werk in der italienischen Volkssprache, sprengte Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) den verengten Rahmen der bildungselitären scholastischen Universitätsphilosophie.
One of the most challenging problems in the history of Western ideas stems from the emergence of Modernity out of the preceding period of the Latin Middle Ages.
»Wir dürfen nicht an allem festhalten, was wir gehört und gelesen haben, sondern müssen aufs genaueste die Auffassungen der früheren Generationen prüfen, um hinzuzufügen, was bei ihnen fehlte, und um zu berichtigen, wo Irrtümer unterlaufen waren.
Grounded in medical, juridical, and philosophical texts of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France, this innovative study tells the story of how the idea of woman contributed to the emergence of modern science.
Examines Aristotle''s vast influence upon the medieval Arabic philosophical tradition and includes contributions from every discipline within his corpus.
Graciela De Pierris presents a novel interpretation of the relationship between skepticism and naturalism in Hume's epistemology, and a new appraisal of Hume's place within early modern thought.
This collected volume is inspired by the work of Edward Halper and is historically focused with contributions from leading scholars in Ancient and Medieval philosophy.
A synthesis of literary critical and historical methods, Porterfield's book combines insightful analysis of Puritan theological writings with detailed examinations of historical records showing the changing patterns of church membership and domestic life.
In gut aristotelischer Tradition war das höchste Ziel des menschlichen Lebens auch bei den Philosophen im islamischen Bereich die Erkenntnis, das ideale und vollkommene Leben.
Development, Learning, and Community uses data drawn from a study of pluralistic Jewish high schools to illustrate the complex and often challenging interplay between the cognitive and socio-aff ective elements of education.
Finance is the study of how individuals, institutions, governments, and businesses acquire, spend, and manage their money and other financial assets to maximize their value or wealth.
In this awaited follow up to his book Faithful Reason, the well-known philosopher and Catholic thinker John Haldane brings his unrivalled insight to bear on questions of the existence of God and the nature and destiny of the human soul.
A positive assessment of secularism and the possibilities it offers for a genuinely meaningful life without religion Although there is no shortage of recent books arguing against religion, few offer a positive alternative—how anyone might live a fulfilling life without the support of religious beliefs.
A radical shift took place in medieval Europe that still shapes contemporary intellectual life: freeing themselves from the fixed beliefs of the past, scholars began to determine and pursue their own avenues of academic inquiry.
Peter Abelard's autobiography, the Historia calamitatum, is one of the best-known medieval texts, especially because of the story of his love for Heloise which it recounts.
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.
This book examines how epistemology was reinvented by Ibn Sina, an influential philosopher-scientist of the classical Islamic world who was known to the West by the Latinised name Avicenna.
This is the first translation into English of Marsilio Ficino's De Christiana religione, a text first written in Latin in 1474, the year after its author's ordination in the Roman Catholic Church.
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.
Al-Fārābīs 942-43 entstandene Schrift Die Prinzipien der Ansichten der Bewohner der vortrefflichen Stadt ist eine philosophische Summe, die zentrale Themen der frühen islamischen Philosophie in maßgeblicher Form erörtert.
Nach Duns Scotus (1266–1308) verleiht die Philosophie der Theologie die Begriffe, die ihr überhaupt erst Aussagen über die Erkennbarkeit Gottes ermöglichen.