This book offers a selection of 13 case studies on how the notion of grounding helps illuminate philosophical discussions of our past with a special focus on debates of the Middle Ages.
Estudios de pensamiento medieval hispanojudío es un recorrido panorámico por algunos de los hitos fundamentales del pensamiento judío medieval en tierras peninsulares.
Entgegen dem gern gepflegten Vorurteil ist die Philosophie jenes Jahrtausends, das wir aus abendländischer Perspektive „Mittelalter“ nennen, äußerst vielgestaltig, interdisziplinär und multikulturell.
This book explores the tangled relationship between literary production and epistemological foundation as exemplified in one of the masterpieces of Italian literature.
This book bridges medieval and contemporary philosophical thinkers, examining the relationship between fiction and philosophy for bringing about social change.
With an emphasis on exploring measurable aspects of ancient narratives, Maths Meets Myths sets out to investigate age-old material with new techniques.
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.
The book provides in depth studies of two epistemological aspects of Jewish Law (Halakhah) as the 'Word of God' - the question of legal reasoning and the problem of knowing and remembering.
Die vorliegende Untersuchung erbringt einen akribisch aus den Texten erarbeiteten Nachweis der Rezeption aristotelischer, peripatetischer und neuplatonischer Schriften durch Meister Eckhart.
In den Jahrzehnten um 1100 fand ein Mentalitätswandel statt, der mitunter als "Entdeckung des Individuums" bezeichnet wird: Das Verständnis für die Motive, Bedürfnisse und Ansprüche einer Person wuchs ebenso wie die Bereitschaft, ihnen mehr Raum zu geben.
Charlemagne is probably the most well-known ruler of the Middle Ages: the most important offspring of the Carolingians, as a "constructor of Europe", he coined the times in the long-term and fascinated subsequent generations.
Martyr worship is an important element of the Christian faith and was essential both for the internal cohesion of the faith group in its early founding phase as well as for its effective portrayal to the outside world, which was used for the conversion of non-Christians.
