This book addresses an emblematic case of a potential faith-reason, or faith-science, conflict that never arose, even though the biblical passage in question runs counter to simple common sense.
First published in 1905, this reissued edition of The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon is an edited collection based upon the definitive seven volume edition of 1857, translated and prefaced by Robert Leslie Ellis and James Spedding.
Dass das neuzeitliche Denken seinen Ursprung in der spätscholastischen Theologie und ihrer radikalen Akzentuierung von Gottes Allmacht hat, bildet die zentrale und sehr einflussreiche These von Hans Blumenbergs Legitimität der Neuzeit.
Wer sich ernsthaft mit der Philosophie beschäftigt, wird sich immer auch für ihre Geschichte und all die Schätze interessieren, die sie seit ihren Anfängen im antiken Griechenland für uns bereithält.
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.
Following a scholarly account of Thomas Aquinas's life, Davies explores his purposes in writing the Summa Theologiae and works systematically through each of its three Parts.
Analyzing Shakespeare's views on theatre and magic and John Dee's concerns with philosophy and magic in the light of the Italian version of philosophia perennis (mainly Marsilio Ficino, Pico della Mirandola and Giordano Bruno), this book offers a new perspective on the Italian-English cultural dialogue at the Renaissance and its contribution to intellectual history.
Heloise, the twelfth-century French abbess and reformer, emerges from this book as one of history's most extraordinary women, a thinker-writer of profound insight and skill.
Including both traditional and underrepresented accounts and geographies of soul, body, gender, and sexuality in late antique history, philosophy, and theology, this volume offers substantial re-readings of these and related concepts through theories of dis/embodiment.
This book critically explores the development of radical criminological thought through the social, political and cultural history of the Middle Ages to the Renaissance.
The articles in this collection focus on instruction - and writings arising from that instruction - in philosophy and the arts during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries with emphasis on Central Europe.
With selections of philosophers from Plotinus to Bruno, this new anthology provides significant learning support and historical context for the readings along with a wide variety of pedagogical assists.
This book is a detailed but accessible treatment of the political thought of John of Salisbury, a twelfth-century author and educationalist who rose from a modest background to become Bishop of Chartres.
Das Eine, das Gute, das Wahre und das Schöne – unum, bonum, verum, pulchrum – werden in der hochmittelalterlichen Philosophie als allgemeine Bestimmungen eines ungegenständlichen Seins, dessen erkennbare Spur sich in allem gegenständlich Seienden findet, verstanden.
In dieser Schrift begründet Dante die Priorität der Volks- und Muttersprache vor der lateinischen Gelehrtensprache und fordert eine italienische Hochsprache.
Diese Ausgabe zweier zentraler Abhandlungen Alberts des Großen bietet eine originäre Einführung in das System seines Denkens und zugleich in die Hauptpunkte des Universalienstreits.
