The Birth of Thought in the Spanish Language

The Birth of Thought in the Spanish Language
Author: Ilia Galán Díez
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2017-03-29
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3319509772

This book takes readers on a philosophical discovery of a forgotten treasure, one born in the 14th century but which appears to belong to the 21st. It presents a critical, up-to-date analysis of Santob de Carrión, also known as Sem Tob, a writer and thinker whose philosophy arose in the Spain of the three great cultures: Jews, Christians, and Muslims, who then coexisted in peace. The author first presents a historical and cultural introduction that provides biographical detail as well as context for a greater understand of Santob's philosophy. Next, the book offers a dialogue with the work itself, which looks at politics, sociology, anthropology, psychology, ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, and theodicy. The aim is not to provide an exhaustive analysis, or to comment on each and every verse, but rather to deal only with the most relevant for today’s world. Readers will discover how Santob believed knowledge must be dynamic, and tolerance fundamental, fleeing from dogma, since one cannot avoid a significant dose of moral and aesthetic relativism. Subjectivity, within its own codes, must seek a profound ethics, not puritanical but which serves to escape from general ill will. Santob offers a criticism of wealth and power that does not serve the people which appears to be totally relevant today. In spite of the fame he achieved in his own time, Santob has largely remained a vestige of the past. By the end of this book, readers will come to see why this important figure deserves to be more widely studied. Indeed, not only has this medieval Spanish philosopher searched for truth in an unstable, confused world of contradictions, but he has done so in a way that can still help us today.

The Journal of Philosophy

The Journal of Philosophy
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 740
Release: 1909
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

Covers topics in philosophy, psychology, and scientific methods. Vols. 31- include "A Bibliography of philosophy," 1933-

Psychological Bulletin

Psychological Bulletin
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 586
Release: 1908
Genre: Electronic journals
ISBN:

Vol. 49, no. 4, pt. 2 (July 1952) is the association's Publication manual.

More Books

More Books
Author: Boston Public Library
Publisher:
Total Pages: 902
Release: 1928
Genre: Bibliography
ISBN:

Issues consist of lists of new books added to the library ; also articles about aspects of printing and publishing history, and about exhibitions held in the library, and important acquisitions.

Spanish Romanticism and the Uses of History

Spanish Romanticism and the Uses of History
Author: Derek Flitter
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2024-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1040281311

Flitter examines those narratives within the intellectual parameters that defined them, probing the conceptual strategies by which writers represented history.