Medieval 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.

A comprehensive examination of the moral psychology of wrongdoing from a major historical figure, Thomas Aquinas.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Im »Examen vanitatis« geht es Pico nicht um die Auseinandersetzung mit einzelnen Positionen paganer Philosophen, sondern um einen Kampf gegen die Philosophie insgesamt.

Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) was one of the luminaries of the Florentine Renaissance and the scholar responsible for the revival of Platonism.

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Explores the cultural functions played in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by accounts of the Bible''s origins.

Focuses on early Christian reflection on Christ as God incarnate from the first century to ca.

Theology and the Scientific Imagination is a pioneering work of intellectual history that transformed our understanding of the relationship between Christian theology and the development of science.

This book considers different forms of voluntarism developed from the thirteenth to eighteenth centuries.

This volume is a collection of essays on a special theme in Aristotelian philosophy of mind: the internal senses.

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.

A comprehensive presentation of the philosophical work of the fifteenth-century Renaissance thinker Giovanni Pico della Mirandola.

Modern mechanics was forged in the seventeenth century from materials inherited from Antiquity and transformed in the period from the Middle Ages through to the sixteenth century.

Philosophy in the Islamic world from the 9th to 11th centuries was characterized by an engagement with Greek philosophical works in Arabic translation.

An utterly original exploration of the timeless human virtues and how they apply to the way we live now, from a bold and dynamic French writer.

In discussions of the works of Donne, Milton, Marvell, and Bunyan, Early Modern Asceticism shows how conflicting approaches to asceticism animate depictions of sexuality, subjectivity, and embodiment in early modern literature and religion.

400 years after The Anatomy of Melancholy, this book guides readers through Renaissance medicine''s disease of the mind.

In this volume, noted philosopher Lenn E.

This book offers a comparative study of emotion in Arabic Islamic and English Christian contemplative texts, c.

In einer Welt, in der das Schicksal von Königreichen oft auf dem Schlachtfeld entschieden wurde, spielten Symbole eine entscheidende Rolle.

This volume explores the range of Montaigne''s philosophy and its social and intellectual contexts.

Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 brings a holistic and comparative perspective to "e;plague writing"e; from the later Middle Ages to the twenty-first century.

Shedding new light on the understudied Italian Renaissance scholar, Andrea Cesalpino, and the diverse fields he wrote on, this volume covers the multiple traditions that characterize his complex natural philosophy and medical theories, taking in epistemology, demonology, mineralogy, and botany.

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

This volume examines many aspects of the philosophy of Avicenna, the greatest philosopher of the Islamic world.

This volume provides a brief and accessible introduction to the 9th-century philosopher and theologian John Scottus Eriugena--perhaps the most important philosophical thinker to appear in Latin Christendom in the period between Augustine and Anselm.

A complete history of alchemy revealing the subject as much more than the attempts in early science of turning base metals into gold or silver, this book goes about intimating the mystical experience underlying hermetic symbolism.

This book is inspired by a single powerful question.

The Philosophy and Science of Roger Bacon offers new insights and research perspectives on one of the most intriguing characters of the Middle Ages, Roger Bacon.

Sir Anthony Kenny continues his magisterial new history of Western philosophy with a fascinating guide through more than a millennium of thought from 400 AD onwards, charting the story of philosophy from the founders of Christian and Islamic thought through to the Renaissance.

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

Desiderius Erasmus' humanist works were influential throughout Europe, in various areas of thought including theology, education, philology, and political theory.

The conventional opposition of scholastic Aristotelianism and humanistic science has been increasingly questioned in recent years, and in these articles William Wallace aims to demonstrate that a progressive Aristotelianism in fact provided the foundation for Galileo's scientific discoveries.

Examines Aristotle''s vast influence upon the medieval Arabic philosophical tradition and includes contributions from every discipline within his corpus.

Sarah Rolfe Prodan combines a literary, historical, and biographical approach to analyze the mystical constructs and conceits in Michelangelo''s poems.

George Gemistos Plethon (c.

Giordano Bruno was burnt at the stake in Rome in 1600, accused of heresy by the Inquisition.

It is hard to think of two philosophers less alike than St.

Provides a reliable point of entrance to the thought of Duns Scotus.

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