Medieval Western philosophy

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.

This book argues that, for Aquinas, a human act exhibits a structure analogous to that of a material object.

This comprehensive volume surveys an important but neglected period of Chinese intellectual history: Xuanxue (Neo-Daoism).

Terence Parsons presents a new study of the development and logical complexity of medieval logic.

The last decade has seen a renewal of interest in the works of Erasmus.

Originally published in 1984, The Image of the Middle Ages in Romantic and Victorian Literature looks at the impact of medievalism in the 18th and 19th centuries and the importance of post-Enlightenment literary religious medievalism.

Anthony Celano''s study explores how medieval authors recast Aristotle''s Nicomachean Ethics according to their own moral ideals.

By exploring the influence of the Andalusian philosopher, Averroes or Ibn Rushd (1126-1198 AD) on European philosophy from the 13th to the 18th century, Koert Debeuf sheds light on a neglected side of the history of philosophy: the influence of Arabic thought on European philosophy.

The Secret Symmetry of Maimonides and Freud presents the parallels between The Guide of the Perplexed and The Interpretation of Dreams, considering how Maimonides might be perceived as anticipating Freud's much later work.

Voltaire called fanaticism the "e;monster that pretends to be the child of religion"e;.

Abelard is one of the foremost protagonists of the "e;twelfth-century Renaissance"e;.

This extensively revised and updated second edition of The Neoplatonists provides a valuable introduction to the thought of the four central Neoplatonist philosophers, Plotinus, Porphyry, Proclus and Iamblichus.

Plotinus (AD 205-270) was the founder of Neoplatonism, whose thought has had a profound influence on medieval philosophy, and on Western philosophy more broadly.

During the late Byzantine period (1261-1453), a significant number of texts were translated from Latin, but also from Arabic and other languages, into Greek.

This book discusses Aquinas''s reception of Aristotle''s work, exploring how Aquinas adopts, corrects or transforms key themes from Aristotle''s ethics.

Recently, there has been an upsurge of interest in the work Periphyseon of the early medieval philosopher John Scot Eriugena.

Sixteenth century philosophy was a unique synthesis of several philosophical frameworks, a blend of old and new, including but not limited to Scholasticism, Humanism, Neo-Thomism, Aristotelianism, and Stoicism.

In this book, philosopher Jean W.

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.

In some of his most famous works, John Philoponus (c.

Professor Gutas deals here with the lives, sayings, thought, and doctrines of Greek philosophers drawn from sources preserved in medieval Arabic translations and for the most part not extant in the original.

Nigel Tubbs takes the history of Western philosophy to be the search for first principles.

Sufi Castigator investigates the writings of Ahmad Kasravi, one of the foremost intellectuals in Iran.

Few philosophers or theologians exerted as much influence on the shape of medieval thought as Thomas Aquinas.

Although the importance of Francisco Suarez has been, for some time already, generally recognized even outside the circles of historians of scholasticism, the wider context of his thought - i.

This volume presents translations of seven prominent medieval Jewish rationalists covering topics both theological and philosophical.

Out of the broad variety of Cusanus' work, this book discusses six of his writings, careful not to isolate them from the whole of his work.

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.

This volume is the first complete English translation of Hasdai Crescas's Light of the Lord.

A number of Jewish philosophers active in Spain and Italy in the second half of the 15th century (Abraham Bibago, Baruch Ibn Ya'ish, Abraham Shalom, Eli Habillo, Judah Messer Leon) wrote Hebrew commentaries and questions on Aristotle.

This volume presents a penetrating interview and sixteen essays that explore key intersections of medieval religion and philosophy.

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.

The second edition of the Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy is expanded and substantially revised.

This is the first volume of essays devoted to Aristotelian formal causation and its relevance for contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of science.

The book God, Truth, and other Enigmas is a collection of eighteen essays that fall under four headings: (God's) Existence/Non-Existence, Omniscience, Truth, and Metaphysical Enigmas.

This book offers a rich and fascinating overview of medieval debates on moral dilemmas.

Steven Nadler presents the first English translation of a seminal work in the history of early modern philosophy.

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.

The essays in this book discuss a number of the central metaphysical and ethical themes that engaged the minds of Platonist philosophers during late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages.

Vives' Schrift »Gegen die Pseudodialektiker«, die von Thomas Morus und Erasmus von Rotterdam hoch gelobt wurde und stark von Morus und Lorenzo Valla beeinflusst ist, wurde von vielen seiner Zeitgenossen lebhaft rezipiert.