Medieval Western philosophy

Fresh translations of key texts, exhaustive coverage from Plato to Kant, and detailed commentary by expert scholars of philosophy add up to make this sourcebook the first and most comprehensive account of the history of the philosophy of mind.

This volume brings together Professor Cranz's published studies on Nicholas of Cusa with a set of seven papers left unpublished at the time of his death.

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

This book is based on the postmedieval journal special issue Critical Confessions Now.

In the history of Christian thought, St Bonaventure stands out as the pre-eminent Franciscan philosopher of the 13th century and as a key figure in the development of the spiritual theology of the Church.

Nach der verdienstvollen Edition des Traktats »De intellectu et intelligibili« durch Burkhard Mojsisch (PhB 322) legt Matthias Scherbaum nun den zweiten Traktat »De visione beatifica« der Intellekttheorie des Dietrich von Freiberg vor.

This book critically explores the development of radical criminological thought through the social, political and cultural history of the Middle Ages to the Renaissance.

Auch diese etwa 1458/1459 entstandene Schrift ist dem Bemühen um Gotteserkenntnis gewidmet, mit Hilfe eines Spiegels und eines Rätselbildes.

Die späten philosophisch-theologischen Texte Bonaventuras (1221-1274) galten lange als Exempel mittelalterlicher Mystik.

The High Middle Ages were remarkable for their coherent sense of 'Christendom': of people who belonged to a homogeneous Christian society marked by uniform rituals of birth and death and worship.

Medieval debates over "e;divine creation"e; are systematically obscured in our age by the conflict between "e;Intelligent Design"e; Creationists and Evolutionists.

Thomas von Aquin ist 'der' Denker des Mittelalters, der die am längsten anhaltende Orientierung geboten, die intensivsten historischen Interessen auf sich gezogen und - neben seiner Bedeutung als Kirchenlehrer - für die vielfältigsten denkerischen Konzeptionen Pate gestanden hat und dessen Werk daher noch heute auf praktisch allen Feldern philosophischer Problemstellungen Anregungen zu geben vermag.

Die vorliegenden »Quaestionen »erörtern Fragen der Willensfreiheit in einem Rahmen, der in der zeitgenössischen Philosophie weitgehend verloren ist: in einer Metaphysik des Seins, welches auf sein Gut-Sein hin befragt wird.

Erasmus' Familiar Colloquies grew from a small collection of phrases, sentences, and snatches of dialogue written in Paris about 1497 to help his private pupils improve their command of Latin.

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.

After discussing the terminology of talismanic magic (or necromancy) and its position in divisions of science in the Middle Ages, this book traces the history of talismanic texts from the Classical period through the Arabic world to the Latin Middle Ages.

Hybridity in the Literature of Medieval England offers a wide-ranging exploration of hybridity in medieval English literature.

This volume contains English translations of texts on mind and knowledge at the centre of medieval philosophy.

This book explores a large variety of topics involved in Arabic philosophy.

Das 1870 in Würzburg gehaltene Kolleg zur scholastischen Philosophie gibt den mittleren Teil des Vorlesungszyklus zur Geschichte der Philosophie wieder.

Wie Maimonides auf den Aristotelismus seiner Zeit sucht Krochmal auf die geschichtstheoretischen, idealistischen Entwürfe deutscher, protestantischer Gelehrter am Ausgang des 18.

This book surveys Hebrew manuscripts of Aristotelian philosophy and logic.

This volume focuses on Ibn Sina - the Avicenna of the Latin West - and the enormous impact of his philosophy in both the Islamic and Christian worlds.

Explores how similarities and differences between humans and animals were understood by medieval theologians, and their significance.

This volume features articles which employ source-work research to trace Kierkegaard's understanding and use of authors from the Patristic and Medieval traditions.

A powerful and ground-breaking contribution to religious philosophy that argues for a return to the venerable tradition of naming God.

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The first full-length treatment of Ibn Gabirol''s philosophy in English, providing a new approach to the philosophy of the Fons Vitae.

Agonistes comprises a collection of essays presented by his friends and colleagues to Denis O'Brien, former Directeur de recherche at the Centre Nationale de Recherche Scientifique, representing the full range of his scholarly interests in the field of ancient philosophy, from the Presocratics, through Plato, Aristotle and Hellenistic philosophy, to Plotinus and later Neoplatonism.

Thomas Aquinas devoted a substantial proportion of his greatest works to the virtues.

The book called 'The Consolation of Philosophy' was throughout the Middle Ages, and down to the beginnings of the modern epoch in the sixteenth century, the scholar's familiar companion.

Der Autor gibt in seinem Buch einen umfassenden Blick auf Bonaventuras († 1274) philosophisch-theologisches Konzept von Zeit und Ewigkeit.

'This sentence is false' - is that true?

Treatise on Divine Predestination is one of the early writings of the author of the great philosophical work Periphyseon (On the Division of Nature), Johannes Scottus (the Irishman), known as Eriugena (died c.

The divide between science and religion has its roots in the early modern period.

A comprehensive treatment of the seventeenth-century philosopher Pierre Gassendi.

This book is an introduction to trinitarian theology as it developed from the late medieval period.

This volume provides a much needed, historically accurate narrative of the development of theories of space up to the beginning of the eighteenth century.

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.