Chrysostomus Javelli’s Epitome of Aristotle’s Liber de bona fortuna

Chrysostomus Javelli’s Epitome of Aristotle’s Liber de bona fortuna
Author: Valérie Cordonier
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2021-08-16
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9004464794

The first study, along with edition and translation, of Chrysostomus Javelli’s epitome of the Liber de bona fortuna (1531), a work permitting insight into the early modern understanding of fortune, fate, and free will.

Chrysostomus Javelli

Chrysostomus Javelli
Author: Tommaso De Robertis
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2023-08-29
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3031276736

The volume provides the first book-length study of Chrysostomus Javelli’s philosophical works. An Italian university professor and a prominent figure in the intellectual landscape of sixteenth-century Europe, Javelli (ca. 1470-1540) was the author of insightful commentaries on both Plato and Aristotle as well as of original works in which he laid the foundations of a new Christian philosophy. In this volume, a group of leading scholars from around the world guide readers through the many facets of Javelli’s philosophical corpus, showing the long-term impact of his ideas on Western philosophical thought. The twelve essays of this volume shed light on an understudied yet central figure of Renaissance culture, revealing new connections and unexplored influences. This book is a valuable tool for students and scholars of early modern philosophy, classical tradition, and Christian theology, contributing to the understanding of a neglected chapter of Western intellectual history.

Classical Rhetoric in the Middle Ages

Classical Rhetoric in the Middle Ages
Author: John O. Ward
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 724
Release: 2018-12-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004368078

Classical Rhetoric in the Middle Ages: The Medieval Rhetors and Their Art 400-1300, with Manuscript Survey to 1500 CE is a completely updated version of John Ward’s much-used doctoral thesis of 1972, and is the definitive treatment of this fundamental aspect of medieval and rhetorical culture. It is commonly believed that medieval writers were interested only in Christian truth, not in Graeco-Roman methods of ‘persuasion’ to whatever viewpoint the speaker / writer wanted. Dr Ward, however, investigates the content of well over one thousand medieval manuscripts and shows that medieval writers were fully conscious of and much dependent upon Graeco-Roman rhetorical methods of persuasion. The volume then demonstrates why and to what purpose this use of classical rhetoric took place.

Gerardus Joannes Vossius

Gerardus Joannes Vossius
Author: Jan Bloemendal
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 2215
Release: 2010-05-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004184090

This is a new critical edition (in two volumes) of Vossius' Latin Poeticae institutiones, with a translation in English, an introduction, annotations and a commentary. In 1647 the Amsterdam professor Gerardus Vossius published his main work on poetics, Poeticarum institutionum libri III, which can be considered as an important result of the Dutch Golden Age. In the same year two shorter works appeared, De artis poeticae natura ac constitutione, which is an introduction to the main work, and De imitatione, which elaborates on two aspects of poetics: imitation and recitation. These are added in appendices, also with a translation, but without a commentary. Now this important early modern work on the making of poetry (labeled by Sellin as 'The last of the Renaissance monsters') is made available also for readers without Latin.

Contributory Negligence

Contributory Negligence
Author: Emanuel van Dongen
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2014-08-14
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004278729

Accidents often occur not only through the fault of the wrongdoer but also partly through the conduct of the injured party. This contributory conduct of the injured party and its consequences for the delictual liability of the wrongdoer have been central issues in the study of private law for centuries. In Contributory Negligence. A Historical and Comparative Study Van Dongen presents a detailed study of how from Antiquity to today the negligent behaviour of the injured party has influenced claims for damages based on delictual liability and how it evolved into the modern concept of contributory negligence. His research comprises a comparative legal study of the main current developments concerning the concept of contributory negligence in France, Germany and the Netherlands.

Proklu diadochu Stoicheiosis theologike

Proklu diadochu Stoicheiosis theologike
Author: Proclus
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Total Pages: 348
Release: 1992
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780198140979

Proclus' Elements of Theology is a concise summa of the Neoplatonic system in its fully developed form; and for the student of late Greek thought second in importance only to the Enneads of Plotinus. Professor Dodds has provided a critical text based on a personal examination of some forty manuscripts, together with an English translation and a philosophical and linguistic commentary. First published in 1933, this second edition includes an Appendix of Addenda et Corrigenda and is widelyregarded and respected as the definitive edition of the text today.

Supersapientia: Berthold of Moosburg and the Divine Science of the Platonists

Supersapientia: Berthold of Moosburg and the Divine Science of the Platonists
Author: Evan King
Publisher: History of Metaphysics: Ancien
Total Pages: 492
Release: 2021
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9789004464902

"This study examines the motivations and doctrinal coherence of the Commentary on the Elements of Theology of Proclus written by Berthold of Moosburg, O.P. (+c. 1361/1363). It provides an overview of Berthold's biography and intellectual contexts, his manuscript remains, and a partial edition of his annotations on Macrobius and Proclus. Through a close analysis of the three prefaces to the Commentary, giving special attention to his sources, it traces Berthold's elaboration of Platonism as a soteriological science. The content of this science is then presented in a systematic reconstruction of Berthold's cosmology and anthropology. The volume includes an English translation of the three fundamental prefaces of the Commentary"--

Individuals and Institutions in Medieval Scholasticism

Individuals and Institutions in Medieval Scholasticism
Author: Antonia Fitzpatrick
Publisher: University of London Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Individualism
ISBN: 9781912702275

Individuals and Institutions in Medieval Scholasticism is one of the first pieces of close exploratory scholarship on the fundamental relationship between medieval scholastic thought, individual scholars, and their institutions. The text revolves around these essential questions: What was the relationship between particular intellectuals and their wider networks (including but not limited to "schools"), how did intellectuals shape their institutions, and how were their institutions shaped by them? This theoretically sophisticated collection uses a range of European methodological approaches to address a variety of genres such as commentaries, quodlibetal questions, polemics, epic poetry, and inquisition records, and a range of subject matter including history, practical ethics, medicine, theology, philosophy, the constitution of religious orders, the practice of confession, and the institution of cults. This book will be an important reference point for medieval historians, while also raising questions relevant to those working on individualization and institutionalization in other periods and disciplines.

The Philosophy of Human Affairs

The Philosophy of Human Affairs
Author: Aristotle
Publisher: e-artnow
Total Pages: 460
Release: 2019-02-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 802730332X

Aristotle's Ethics and Politics are two separate works dealing with the same subject. This subject is what Aristotle calls in one place the "philosophy of human affairs;" but more frequently Political or Social Science. In the two works taken together we have their author's whole theory of human conduct or practical activity, that is, of all human activity which is not directed merely to knowledge or truth. The proem to the Ethics is an introduction to the whole subject, not merely to the first part; the last chapter of the Ethics points forward to the Politics, and sketches for that part of the treatise the order of enquiry to be pursued.

The Ape in Antiquity

The Ape in Antiquity
Author: William Coffman McDermott
Publisher:
Total Pages: 338
Release: 1938
Genre: Animals in art
ISBN: 9780598918642