Medieval Western philosophy

This book offers a comprehensive history of the principle of double effect and its applications in ethics.

This History comprises over forty specially commissioned essays by experts on the philosophy of the period 200–800 CE.

This collection comprises over fifty specially commissioned essays exploring developments in medieval philosophy from logic to ethics, metaphysics to theology.

Attacks nothing less than the currently prevailing world philosophy--humanism, which the author feels is exceedingly dangerous in its hidden assumptions.

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Wie kann Gott die Zukunft kennen, wenn zukunftige Dinge nicht wirklich sind?

As the 'father' of the English literary canon, one of a very few writers to appear in every 'great books' syllabus, Chaucer is seen as an author whose works are fundamentally timeless: an author who, like Shakespeare, exemplifies the almost magical power of poetry to appeal to each generation of readers.

This volume offers an updated analysis of the use, meaning, and scope of the classical notion of aitia.

Through the concept of contraction, Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) endeavoured to explain the relationship of God to his Creation in a way that conformed with his pantheistic view of nature as well as his heterodox view of man's relationship to God.

Metaphysics and Hermeneutics in the Medieval Platonic Tradition consists of twelve essays originally published between 2006 and 2015, dealing with main trends and specific figures within the medieval Platonic tradition.

Noonan shows that at the core of postmodern philosophy, with its claim that culture creates humans, is a concern to dethrone the modern understanding of human beings as subjects, as builders of their world and free when those world-building activities are the outcome of free choices.

First published in 1999.

This book is based on the postmedieval journal special issue Prophetic Futures.

The Humanist World of Renaissance Florence offers the first synthetic interpretation of the humanist movement in Renaissance Florence in more than fifty years.

Der Franziskaner Petrus Iohannis Olivi war einer der umstrittensten und schöpferischsten Denker des 13.

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

In den Jahrzehnten um 1100 fand ein Mentalitätswandel statt, der mitunter als "Entdeckung des Individuums" bezeichnet wird: Das Verständnis für die Motive, Bedürfnisse und Ansprüche einer Person wuchs ebenso wie die Bereitschaft, ihnen mehr Raum zu geben.

Das »Buch von den Ursachen« (Liber de causis), im 9.

Erasmus was fascinated by proverbs and prepared a collection of more than 4,000 of them, accompanying each with his comments, sometimes in a few lines and sometimes in full-scale essays.

Modern theory needs a history lesson.

Situated at the crossroads of history and literary studies, this book examines confession''s place at the heart of French demonology.

Provides a new way of reading Western tragedy alongside texts from the postcolonial world so as to cross-illuminate each other.

A comprehensive account of Thomas Aquinas''s understanding of virtue, for scholars in ethics, medieval philosophy, and theology.

Studies of medieval Biblical interpretation usually focus on the printed literature, neglecting the vast majority of relevant works.

Das Werk des Cusanus gilt als Synthese mittelalterlicher Weisheit und gedanklicher Grundlegung der großen Systeme der beginnenden Renaissance und der neueren Zeit.

This book argues that Levi Gersonides articulates a unique model of virtue ethics among medieval Jewish thinkers.

This edited volume presents a comprehensive history of modern logic from the Middle Ages through the end of the twentieth century.

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A bold study that reveals Dante''s medieval vision of Scripture as theophany through pioneering use of contemporary theory and phenomenology.

The final two volumes in the CWE contain an edition and translation of Erasmus's poetry.

The influential scholar of religion Mircea Eliade envisioned a spiritually destitute modern culture coming into renewed meaning through the recovery of archetypal myths and symbols.

In seventeenth-century philosophy the mind-body problem and the nature of personal immortality were two of the most controversial and sensitive issues.

This was originally a two volume set which is now bound as one.

»Alle Menschen wollen glücklich sein« – so lautet ein Grundsatz der seit Platon und Aristoteles bis ins 18.

Originally published in 1953 From Roman Empire to Renaissance Europe looks at the broader picture of the Middle Ages, drawn in terms of the men and women and the situations that they had to face.

Remembering Boethius explores the rich intersection between the reception of Boethius and the literary construction of aristocratic identity, focusing on a body of late-medieval vernacular literature that draws on the Consolation of Philosophy to represent and reimagine contemporary experiences of exile and imprisonment.

This fourth volume traces the history of Renaissance philosophy and seventeenth century rationalism, covering Descartes and the birth of modern philosophy.

On the most basic level, the articles brought together in the present volume aim to contribute to the charting of the (often subtle) links between the medieval and early modern periods in the fields of metaphysics, philosophical theology, and modal theory.

First published in 1999.

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Though they have long been portrayed as arch rivals, Alan Perreiah here argues that humanists and scholastics were in fact working in complementary ways toward some of the same goals.