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Diogenes Laertios, der Biograph der griechischen Philosophen, soll seinen Nachnamen von der Stadt Laërte in Kilikien erhalten haben. Über die Umstände seines Lebens wissen wir nichts. Er muss nach S……続きを見る

In this volume, noted philosopher Lenn E. Goodman shares the insights gained over a lifetime of pondering the meaning and purpose of Maimonides' celebrated Guide to the Perplexed. Written in the lat……続きを見る

This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: Introduction: The Life and Work of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Books: The Pheno……続きを見る

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. It thereby m……続きを見る

This open access volume provides an in-depth analysis of philosophical discussions concerning the common good and its relation to self-interest in the history of Western philosophy. The thirteen cha……続きを見る

Unveils the profound influence of medieval Islamic philosophy on the thought of Leo Strauss. This study examines the impact of the medieval Muslim philosophers al-Fārābī, Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) and Ibn……続きを見る

Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy was one of the most widely read and influential texts in medieval Europe, considering questions such as How can evil exist in a world governed by God? And how is ……続きを見る

La obra más célebre del filósofo Erasmo de Rotterdam, una sátira mordaz sobre los usos y abusos de la razón. Edición y versión de Eduardo Gil Bera, escritor, traductor, ensayista y periodista La Ala……続きを見る

Explore the profound wisdom of Alfarabi, a pivotal figure in medieval philosophy, and his enduring impact on intellectual thought with Robert Hammond's comprehensive work. Delve into Alfarabi's intr……続きを見る

Hacia el año 1150, Hildegarda de Bingen reunió sus composiciones y formó con ellas un ciclo lírico completo al que llamó «Sinfonía de la armonía de las revelaciones celestiales», corpus que incluye ……続きを見る

This book examines scholastic conceptions of final causality through the methods and concerns of historical theology. It argues the history of final causality is most profitably understood according……続きを見る

The “Long Middle Ages” indicates a span of time extending from Antiquity, across the Middle Ages, to the Early Modern period. The author tries to understand factors of historical continuity binding ……続きを見る

'Ingenious… a glorious portrait of the great 15th-century prince of learning' Daily Telegraph 'A deeply fascinating, sui generis book by a brilliant scholar-writer, which uses the life story of a R……続きを見る

The Theology of Fear in Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae excavates and explores Thomas Aquinas’s comparatively expansive theology of fear that he develops in the Summa theologiae. Whereas many clas……続きを見る

From medieval to modern, exploring instrumental attitudes toward physical gadgets, diagrams, concepts, methods, and disciplines Opening up the instrumental condition of the human for critical reflec……続きを見る

Estudios de pensamiento medieval hispanojudío es un recorrido panorámico por algunos de los hitos fundamentales del pensamiento judío medieval en tierras peninsulares. A modo de jalones en un camino……続きを見る

The medieval Christian West's most radical practitioners of a Neoplatonic, negative theology with a mystical focus are John Scottus Eriugena, Meister Eckhart and Nicholas Cusanus. All three mastered……続きを見る

Expecting the End of the World in Medieval Europe: An Interdisciplinary Study examines the phenomenon of medieval eschatology from a global perspective, both geographically and intellectually. The c……続きを見る

This collection of Charles Burnett's articles on the transmission of Arabic learning to Europe concentrates on the identity of the Latin translators and the context in which they were working. The a……続きを見る

’This sentence is false’ - is that true? The ’Liar paradox’ embodied in those words exerted a particular fascination on the logicians of the Western later Middle Ages, and, along with similar ’insol……続きを見る

Without denying the real importance of the more ’traditional’ tasks of a historian of ideas or scholar of literature - the edition of a text and research into its sources and influence - Professor F……続きを見る

This third collection of Charles Schmitt’s articles complements the previous two and consists largely of studies published in the last few years of his life. It therefore contains his mature reflect……続きを見る

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 pr……続きを見る

À travers ses citations et réflexions, "Dans le désordre ordonné et dans l’ordre désordonné" offre une exploration philosophique et intime de l’existence où, auteur libertaire, Guillaume Duhamel abo……続きを見る

This volume deals with the psychological, metaphysical and scientific ideas of two major and influential Aristotelian philosophers of the Italian Renaissance - Nicoletto Vernia (d. 1499) and Agostin……続きを見る

Language was the Italian humanists’ stock-in-trade, rhetoric their core discipline. In this volume Professor Monfasani collects together his most important articles on these subjects. One group of t……続きを見る

The central theme of this volume lies in the medieval consciousness of mathematics, and the variety of strategies adopted to apply it in other areas, notably natural philosophy. In diachromic terms,……続きを見る

The impact of classical thought on Renaissance philosophy is the subject of this volume. In the first part Dr Kraye deals with the interpretations of ancient philosophy put forward by various thinke……続きを見る

Charles Trinkaus can be counted among the eminent intellectual and cultural historians of the Renaissance. This new collection of his articles brings together pieces published since 1982. The studie……続きを見る

The previous collection by Constant J. Mews focused on the work and thought of Peter Abelard (1079-1142); the present volume looks more broadly at Abelard's intellectual and religious context in the……続きを見る