Gott, Freiheit, Weltenwahl

Gott, Freiheit, Weltenwahl
Author: T. Ramelow
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 511
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004247262

This study investigates the origins of the concept of "the best of all possible worlds". It exemplifies the character of modern metaphysics, which thinks mainly in terms of freedom and possibility. The book contains three parts. The first part tries to reconstruct this concept both historically and systematically; it deals with the concept of possibility beginning with High Scholasticism. The second part investigates the origins of this idea in the Jesuit theory of "scientia media", which is concerned with human freedom and divine foreknowledge. The third part deals with the question, whether there is any necessity to choose the best - a main theme in late scholastic thought of the 17th century. This investigation of a concept unknown before the time of Leibniz, reveals many new sources and fills a gap in the history of ideas.

The Poet's Wisdom

The Poet's Wisdom
Author: Timothy Kircher
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004146377

The book explores the philosophical thinking of Petrarch and Boccaccio in contrast to the writings of contemporary mendicants. Examining both Latin and vernacular works, it investigates how these humanists poetically express the temporal, subjective, and emotional quality of moral sensibility, in a way that shifts to the reader the weight of discerning the ethical message. The book centers its analysis on a series of paradoxes pondered by these humanists: the self that changes yet persists over time; the awareness of self-deception; the individual's validation of authority; and the ethics of pleasure. This study is valuable to those interested in Renaissance philosophy, literature, religion, and the history of ideas.

Collected Studies on Francisco Suárez, S.J. (1548-1617)

Collected Studies on Francisco Suárez, S.J. (1548-1617)
Author: John P. Doyle
Publisher: Universitaire Pers Leuven
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN: 9058677370

Although the Jesuit Francisco Suarez (1548-1617) is one of the most important figures of late scholasticism, his work has not received the attention it deserves in English-speaking scholarly literature. One exception to this generalization is found in the work of the American scholar John P. Doyle, whose ground-breaking studies of several important areas of Suarez's complex but highly original system of thought have helped to make the Jesuit's ideas accessible to several generations of historians of philosophy. This volume gathers together Doyle's most important articles on the philosophical theology, metaphysics, ethics, and legal philosophy of Suarez, and is prefaced by an introductory chapter that places the Jesuit's life and thought in context.

Practising Reform in Montaigne's Essais

Practising Reform in Montaigne's Essais
Author: Dorothea B. Heitsch
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789004116306

This volume permits a new approach to Montaigne's essays from the point of view of the art of writing and style. Its particular hermeneutic position, which distinguishes it from other investigations, is that Nietzsche is used as a mediator.

Bernhard Varenius

Bernhard Varenius
Author: Margret Schuchard
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2007
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004163638

This fresh portrait of Varenius presents a young German scholar, whose books on Japan (1649), the first one from a European perspective, and on General Geography (1650) were written and published in Amsterdam and led to establishing geography as a science.

Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy, Volume 4

Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy, Volume 4
Author: Robert Pasnau
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2016-11-03
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0191089702

Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy showcases the best scholarly research in this flourishing field. The series covers all aspects of medieval philosophy, including the Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew traditions, and runs from the end of antiquity into the Renaissance. It publishes new work by leading scholars in the field, and combines historical scholarship with philosophical acuteness. The papers will address a wide range of topics, from political philosophy to ethics, and logic to metaphysics. OSMP is an essential resource for anyone working in the area.

Spheres of Philosophical Inquiry and the Historiography of Medieval Philosophy

Spheres of Philosophical Inquiry and the Historiography of Medieval Philosophy
Author: John Inglis
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 346
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789004108431

This volume provides a genealogy of the modern historiography of medieval philosophy up to the present, rediscovers fifty years of German scholarship, criticizes what has become the standard approach, and proposes an historically sensitive alternative.

Inventing the Public Sphere (2 Vols.)

Inventing the Public Sphere (2 Vols.)
Author: Leidulf Melve
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 792
Release: 2007-10-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 9047422759

This book deals with public debate during the Investiture Contest (ca. 1040-1122). During this revolutionary struggle between the secular and the religious powers, polemical writers contributed to the arguably first 'public debate' in medieval Europe. A close reading of a selection of these polemics offers new views on the functioning of the medieval public sphere as well as how the public framework circumscribing the writers led to argumentative innovations. These include an increasing concern with interpretation and contextualisation, resulting in a more critical and probing intellectual community. Public debate during the Contest taught intellectuals how to argue in public and in that respect transferred a lasting legacy to the later Middle Ages and beyond.

A Romantic Historiosophy

A Romantic Historiosophy
Author: Arthur McCalla
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 492
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9789004109674

This intellectual history study establishes Ballanche as an important figure in the intellectual life of early nineteenth-century France, and demonstrates how his religio-social project effected a critical step in the historical-mindedness of the Romantic period.

Be Sober and Reasonable

Be Sober and Reasonable
Author: Michael Heyd
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1995
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9789004101180

This book analyses the theological, medical and scientific critique of enthusiasm claims to direct divine inspiration in early modern Europe, and the contribution of that critique to a more secular culture on the eve of the Enlightenment.