Medieval Western philosophy

A revisionist study of Roger Bacon, examining his writings in the context of his commitment to the medieval Church.

The Latin Middle Ages were characterised by a vast array of different representations of nature.

John Buridan (ca.

Hylomorphism is a metaphysical theory that explains the unity of material objects through a special immaterial part, a 'form'.

What is the nature of the material world?

Central to Niccol Machiavelli's writing is the argument that a successful state is one that prefers to lose with its own arms (arma propriis) than to win with the arms of others (arma alienis).

Charles Trinkaus can be counted among the eminent intellectual and cultural historians of the Renaissance.

This sourcebook explores how the Middle Ages dealt with questions related to the mental life of creatures great and small.

Focuses on early Christian reflection on Christ as God incarnate from ca.

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

The philosophy discussed in this volume constitutes the intellectual and philosophical ideas of the medieval era, from Aquinas and Anselm, the intellectual philosophy of the Judaic and Arabic traditions, the Twelfth Century Renaissance and the philosophical ideas associated with the emergence of the universities.

Georges Dicker here provides a commentary on John Locke's masterwork, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding-the foundational work of classical Empiricism.

This book examines the potential of conducting studies in comparative hagiology, through parallel literary and historical analyses of spiritual life writings pertaining to distinct religious contexts.

Maintaining that it is impossible to understand the work of a philosopher without understanding the previous history of thought and the contemporaneous developments, this book, originally published in 1932, is an in-depth study of Descartes' philosophy with a strong emphasis on the historical approach.

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.

Philosophic Classics: From Plato to Derrida includes essential writings of the most important philosophers from almost two millennia of Western philosophy.

Thomas More remains one of the most enigmatic thinkers in history, due in large part to the enduring mysteries surrounding his best-known work, Utopia.

The papers in this volume fall into four sections.

Like any other group of philosophers, scholastic thinkers from the Middle Ages disagreed about even the most fundamental of concepts.

Anthony J.

This volume presents fourteen of William E.

In the De potentia, Thomas Aquinas runs a series of disputations on the power of God.

The literature of the English Renaissance demands some attention to the intellectual and educational background which produced it, in order to be seen in proper perspective.

Philosophy and Rabbinic Culture is a study of the great, and curiously underappreciated, engagement of a Medieval European Jewish community with the philosophic tradition.

This book offers an introduction to the thought of Robert Holcot, a great and influential but often underappreciated medieval thinker.

How cultural categories shaped--and were shaped by--new ideas about controlling nature Ranging from alchemy to necromancy, "e;books of secrets"e; offered medieval readers an affordable and accessible collection of knowledge about the natural world.

Born in Saxony in 1096, Hugh became an Augustinian monk and in 1115 moved to the monastery of Saint Victor, Paris, where he spent the remainder of his life, eventually becoming the head of the school there.

This study overturns core conceptions regarding Calvin revising what we know about Calvin, history, tradition, and our own situation.

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.

Are human beings purely material creatures, or is there something else to them, an immaterial part that does some (or all) of the thinking, and might even be able to outlive the death of the body?

The ancient topic of universals was central to scholastic philosophy, which raised the question of whether universals exist as Platonic forms, as instantiated Aristotelian forms, as concepts abstracted from singular things, or as words that have universal signification.

The Metaphysics of Good and Evil is the first, full-length contemporary defence, from the perspective of analytic philosophy, of the Scholastic theory of good and evil - the theory of Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, and most medieval and Thomistic philosophers.

This work offers a "e;symposium"e; on the nature of human sexual difference drawing on Plato's masterpiece: having explored the observed phenomena of sexual difference, four stories are told of the origins, essence, and ends of the human male and female.

Sten Ebbesen has contributed many works in the field of ancient and medieval philosophy over many decades of dedicated research.

Originally published in 1972, Medieval Logic and Metaphysics shows how formal logic can be used in the clarification of philosophical problems.

In the world of today, men on both sides of the science-humanities barrier feel an urgent need for mutual understanding.

Without an appropriate spiritual care model, it can be difficult to discuss existential questions about death and dying with people who are confronted with life-threatening or incurable diseases.

In 1688 the Irish scientist and politician William Molyneux sent a letter to the philosopher John Locke.

John Buridan (ca.

This book offers a brief, accessible introduction to the thought of Boethius.

This pioneering study reveals the central place held by Virgil''s ''messianic'' Eclogue in the art and literature of Renaissance Italy.

The best introduction to medieval theology from the time of St Augustine to the 14th century, in an expanded edition.

The Trinitarian Christology of St Thomas Aquinas brings to light the Trinitarian riches in Thomas Aquinas's Christology.

This title was first published in 2002: JA rg Breu belonged to the generation of German Renaissance artists that included DArer, Cranach, GrAnewald, Altdorfer, and, in his own city of Augsburg, Hans Burgkmair the Elder.

Tackling the question of why medieval philosophy matters in the current age, Stephen Boulter issues a passionate and robust defence of this school in the history of ideas.

With exceptionally clear analysis, James Fetzer dissects the philosophical issues underlying todays most contentious moral debates.