Medieval Western philosophy

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In recent years the philosophy of information has emerged as an important area of research in philosophy.

The first Symposium consisted of three people in a cafe in Warsaw in 1973.

This volume re-examines some of the major themes at the intersection of traditional and contemporary metaphysics.

Interest in the middle ages is at an all time high at the moment, thanks in part to "e;The Da Vinci Code.

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

This monograph presents new material on Francisco Suarez's comprehensive theory of sense perception.

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

Drawing on the generous semantic range the term enjoyed in early modern usage, Experimental Selves argues that 'person,' as early moderns understood this concept, was an 'experimental' phenomenon-at once a given of experience and the self-conscious arena of that experience.

This book bridges medieval and contemporary philosophical thinkers, examining the relationship between fiction and philosophy for bringing about social change.

This book provides the first analysis of the development of Erasmus’ historical methodology and its impact on Roman Catholic and Protestant theologians.

Published in 1999.

Provides the first extended study of Calvin''s 1559 Institutio in conversation with critical theorists of religion, modernity, sovereignty, and political theology.

This book offers a new view of Italian Renaissance intellectual life, linking philosophy and literature as expressed in both Latin and Italian.

Angeregt durch das Studium neuplatonischer Schriften greift Cusanus in dieser Abhandlung von 1459 das Problem wieder auf, das im Mittelpunkt seines Denkens steht: die Gotteserkenntnis.

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.

First Published in 1999.

With an emphasis on exploring measurable aspects of ancient narratives, Maths Meets Myths sets out to investigate age-old material with new techniques.

THE PIMLICO HISTORY significantly broadens the scope of Western philosophy to reveal the influence of Middle Eastern and Asian thought, the vital contributions of Jewish and Islamic philosophers, and the role of women within the tradition.

Giordano Bruno's visit to Elizabethan England in the 1580s left its imprint on many fields of contemporary culture, ranging from the newly-developing science, the philosophy of knowledge and language, to the extraordinary flowering of Elizabethan poetry and drama.

This book is a detailed and accessible look at one of the most exciting and contested works of Western philosophy.

Surveys this influential concept from antiquity through medieval theological debates to Renaissance Neoplatonism and etiquette guides.

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.

Explores the meaning of life and nature of happiness through the lens of Thomas Aquinas''s classical treatise.

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This is the third of three volumes reprinting the collected papers on Islamic subjects by Richard M.

An insightful look at alienation in the modern world from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Art of Loving and Escape from Freedom.

This volume offers readers a unique and comprehensive overview of different theoretical and interdisciplinary perspectives on ''the sublime''.

The "e;Long Middle Ages"e; indicates a span of time extending from Antiquity, across the Middle Ages, to the Early Modern period.

Language was the Italian humanists' stock-in-trade, rhetoric their core discipline.

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.

In Uncommon Sense, Andrew Pessin leads us on an entertaining tour of philosophy, explaining the pivotal moments when the greatest minds solved some of the knottiest conundrumsby asserting some very strange things.

This book explores noteworthy approaches to modal syllogistic adopted by medieval logicians including Abelard, Albert the Great, Avicenna, AverrA es, Jean Buridan, Richard Campsall, Robert Kilwardby, and William of Ockham.

Im vierten und letzten Buch, mit dem die Edition des "Convivio" abgeschlossen ist, interpretiert Dante sein Gedicht "Le dolci rime d'amor ch' i' solia" und erörtert die komplexe Frage der wahren Edelkeit.

The most comprehensive collection of passages from later Stoic thinkers, providing fresh translations and up-to-date commentary.

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.

This book brings contemporary ways of reconceptualizing the human relationship to things into conversation with seventeenth-century writing, exploring how the literature of the period intersected with changing understandings of the conceptual structure of matter and how human beings might reconfigure their place in a web of nonhuman relations.

This book offers an original contribution to debates about the problem of evil and the existence of God.

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

Evagrius of Pontus and Gregory of Nyssa have either been overlooked by philosophers and theologians in modern times, or overshadowed by their prominent friend and brother (respectively), Gregory Nazianzus and Basil the Great.

The Crusades and Nature: Natural and Supernatural Environments in the Middle Ages explores the intersection of crusader studies and studies of nature.

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.

Die 1324 verfasste Logik Wilhelms von Ockham markiert nicht nur den Wendepunkt von der via antiqua zur via moderna, es ist darüber hinaus auch ein Zeugnis des "Universalienstreits", mittelalterlicher Sprachlogik und damit jenes Umbruchs innerhalb der Philosophie des 14.