Medieval Western philosophy

Born out of a love of language, text, classical learning, art, philosophy and philology, the Christian Humanist project lasted beyond the turmoil of sixteenth-century Europe to survive in a new form in post-Reformation thought.

Cosmopoiesis means world-making, and in this erudite, polemical book, Professor Mazzotta traces how major medieval and Renaissance thinkers invented their worlds through utopias, magic, science, art, and theatre.

Constituting Freedom focuses on the question at the heart of Machiavelli's thinking, that is 'in what mode a free state, if there is one, can be maintained in corrupt cities; or, if there is not, in what mode to order it?

Peter Lombard is best known as the author of a celebrated work entitled Book of Sentences, which for several centuries served as the standard theological textbook in the Christian West.

Brian Davies offers the first in-depth study of Saint Thomas Aquinas's thoughts on God and evil, revealing that Aquinas's thinking about God and evil can be traced through his metaphysical philosophy, his thoughts on God and creation, and his writings about Christian revelation and the doctrines of the Trinity and the Incarnation.

The study features the five most important and most efficacious themes of Western spirituality in their ancient historical origins and in their unfolding up to early modernity: Divine names, Microkosmos-Makrokosmos, theories of creation, the idea of spiritual spaces, and the concepts of eschatological history.

Gregor Reisch's The Philosophical pearl (Margarita Philosophica), first published in 1503 and republished 11 times in the sixteenth century, was the first extensive printed text which discussed the disciplines taught at university to achieve widespread dissemination.

A fully revised third edition of More''s Utopia - one of the most influential texts in the western philosophical and literary tradition.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Vorentwürfe von Moderne" verfügbar.

Provides a new way of reading Western tragedy alongside texts from the postcolonial world so as to cross-illuminate each other.

Sarah Rolfe Prodan combines a literary, historical, and biographical approach to analyze the mystical constructs and conceits in Michelangelo''s poems.

First published in 1999.

This collection comprises over fifty specially commissioned essays exploring developments in medieval philosophy from logic to ethics, metaphysics to theology.

This book uses the tools of analytic philosophy and close readings of medieval Christian philosophical and theological texts in order to survey what these thinkers said about what today we call 'disability.

Offers a full discussion of all significant aspects of this medieval philosopher''s thought.

Ein philosophisches Lehrstück aus der arabischen Literatur des Mittelalters, in dem der Anspruch des Menschen auf die Krone der Schöpfung thematisiert und sein Dasein schärfster Kritik unterzogen wird.

The immortality of the soul is one of the oldest tropes in the history of philosophy and one that gained significant momentum in 16th-century Europe.

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This book investigates the substance and presentation of major metaphysical themes in Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed.

A monumental and exhilarating history of European thought, from the fall of Rome in the fifth century AD to the Scientific Revolution thirteen centuries later.

Was ist Gott?

Expecting the End of the World in Medieval Europe: An Interdisciplinary Study examines the phenomenon of medieval eschatology from a global perspective, both geographically and intellectually.

Elionor of Sicily, 1325-1375: A Mediterranean Queen's Life of Family, Administration, Diplomacy, and War follows Elionor of Sicily, the third wife of the important Aragonese king, Pere III.

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.

This book explores the ideas of theologians at the medieval University of Paris and their attempts to shape society.

In Imagination, Meditation, and Cognition in the Middle Ages, Michelle Karnes revises the history of medieval imagination with a detailed analysis of its role in the period's meditations and theories of cognition.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Humanistische Traditionen der russischen Aufklärung" verfügbar.

Celebrating the fortieth anniversary of this seminal book, this new edition includes an illuminating foreword by Carlos Eire and Ronald K.

Gersonides was a highly original Jewish philosopher, scientist and biblical exegete, active in Provence in the first half of the fourteenth century.

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

A new translation of Bruno''s most characteristic and important texts on causality and magic.

Nachdem zwischen 1993 und 2007 in zweisprachiger, umfangreich kommentierter Edition Dantes »Philosophische Werke« in sieben Teilbänden vorgelegt und damit Korrekturen der stark schulphilosophisch orientierten Historiographie mittelalterlichen Denkens und wesentliche Ergänzungen des gängigen Dantebildes möglich gemacht worden waren, bietet diese neue, einsprachige Studienausgabe einem breiteren Publikum die Möglichkeit, Dante als originellen Denker kennenzulernen, der nicht nur einen eigenständigen Beitrag zur Philosophie seiner Zeit geleistet hat, sondern mit dem Impetus des Aufklärers den Adressatenkreis philosophischer Reflexionen von einer kleinen elitären Gruppe auf alle Menschen ausweiten wollte.

This collection of essays argues that any valid theory of the modern should-indeed must-reckon with the medieval.

Avicenna (Ibn Sina) greatly influenced later medieval thinking about the earth and the cosmos, not only in his own civilization, but also in Hebrew and Latin cultures.

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