The Bloomsbury Companion to Aquinas

The Bloomsbury Companion to Aquinas
Author: John Haldane
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2016-05-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781441143334

Thomas Aquinas is one of the most important thinkers of the High Middle Ages. A pivotal figure in the transition from the Ancient to the Modern eras in Philosophy, he also had a lasting influence on Christian Theology that endures to this day. Covering his life, times, ideas, work and legacy, The Bloomsbury Companion to Aquinas is a complete one-volume reference guide to this important thinker. Historical essays explore not only Aquinas' life and times but also the key influences on his thought, from Aristotle to his contemporaries and the most important critics and commentators to have followed him. An extensive A-Z of key terms and critical synopses of his major work provide a comprehensive and accessible overview of Aquinas' thought. The final section charts the development of Aquinas' legacy, from the First Thomism of the 13th Century to contemporary Existential and Analytical Thomism. Thoroughly indexed and cross-referenced throughout, with extensive guides to key secondary readings, The Bloomsbury Companion to Aquinas is an indispensible reference resource for those working in Philosophy, Theology or Medieval Thought.

The Bloomsbury Companion to Aquinas

The Bloomsbury Companion to Aquinas
Author: John Haldane
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-04-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781441194237

Thomas Aquinas is one of the most important thinkers of the High Middle Ages. A pivotal figure in the transition from the Ancient to the Modern eras in Philosophy, he also had a lasting influence on Christian Theology that endures to this day.Covering his life, times, ideas, work and legacy, The Bloomsbury Companion to Aquinas is a complete one-volume reference guide to this important thinker. Historical essays explore not only Aquinas' life and times but also the key influences on his thought, from Aristotle to his contemporaries and the most important critics and commentators to have followed him. An extensive A-Z of key terms and critical synopses of his major work provide a comprehensive and accessible overview of Aquinas' thought. The final section charts the development of Aquinas' legacy, from the First Thomism of the 13th Century to contemporary Existential and Analytical Thomism.Thoroughly indexed and cross-referenced throughout, with extensive guides to key secondary readings, The Bloomsbury Companion to Aquinas is an indispensible reference resource for those working in Philosophy, Theology or Medieval Thought.

The Bloomsbury Companion to Heidegger

The Bloomsbury Companion to Heidegger
Author: Francois Raffoul
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 533
Release: 2013-06-20
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1441141618

Martin Heidegger is one of the twentieth century's most important philosophers. His ground-breaking works have had a hugely significant impact on contemporary thought through their reception, appropriation and critique. His thought has influenced philosophers as diverse as Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Arendt, Adorno, Gadamer, Levinas, Derrida and Foucault, among others. In addition to his formative role in philosophical movements such as phenomenology, hermeneutics and existentialism, structuralism and post-structuralism, deconstruction and post-modernism, Heidegger has had a transformative effect on diverse fields of inquiry including political theory, literary criticism, theology, gender theory, technology and environmental studies. The Bloomsbury Companion to Heidegger is the definitive reference guide to Heidegger's life and work, presenting fifty-eight original essays written by an international team of leading Heidegger scholars. The volume includes comprehensive coverage of Heidegger life and contexts, sources, influences and encounters, key writings, major themes and topics, and reception and influence. This is the ideal research tool for anyone studying or working in the field of Heidegger Studies today.

The Bloomsbury Companion to Aristotle

The Bloomsbury Companion to Aristotle
Author: Claudia Baracchi
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2014-01-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 144114854X

Aristotle is one of the most crucial figures in the history of Western thought, and his name and ideas continue to be invoked in a wide range of contemporary philosophical discussions. The Bloomsbury Companion to Aristotle brings together leading scholars from across the world and from a variety of philosophical traditions to survey the recent research on Aristotle's thought and its contributions to the full spectrum of philosophical enquiry, from logic to the natural sciences and psychology, from metaphysics to ethics, politics, and aesthetics. Further essays address aspects of the transmission, preservation, and elaboration of Aristotle's thought in subsequent phases of the history of philosophy (from the Judeo-Arabic reception to debates in Europe and North America), and look forward to potential future directions for the study of his thought. In addition, The Bloomsbury Companion to Aristotle includes an extensive range of essential reference tools offering assistance to researchers working in the field, including a chronology of recent research, a glossary of key Aristotelian terms with Latin concordances and textual references, and a guide to further reading.

The New Cambridge Companion to Aquinas

The New Cambridge Companion to Aquinas
Author: Eleonore Stump
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2022-08-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1009049968

This new Companion to Aquinas features entirely new chapters written by internationally recognized experts in the field. It shows the power of Aquinas's philosophical thought and transmits the worldview which he inherited, developed, altered, and argued for, while at the same time revealing to contemporary philosophers the strong connections which there are between Aquinas's interests and views and their own. Its five sections cover the life and works of Aquinas; his metaphysics, including his understanding of the ultimate foundations of reality; his metaethics and ethics, including his virtue ethics; his account of human nature; his theory of the afterlife; his epistemology and his theory of the intellectual virtues; his view of the nature of free will and the relation of grace to free will; and finally some key components of his philosophical theology, including the incarnation and atonement, Christology, and the nature of original sin.

The Bloomsbury Companion to Hobbes

The Bloomsbury Companion to Hobbes
Author: S.A. Lloyd
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2013-01-03
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1441190457

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) is widely held to be one of the most important thinkers in the history of philosophy. His contributions to ethics, political philosophy and psychology in particular were hugely innovative and he was regarded by his contemporaries as a major intellectual figure. This comprehensive and accessible guide to Hobbes's life and work features 120 specially commissioned entries written by a team of leading experts in the field of seventeenth-century philosophy and political thought, covering every aspect of Hobbes's ideas. The Companion presents a comprehensive overview of the major themes and topics in Hobbes's work, in particular within the fields of language, political philosophy, moral philosophy and psychology, religion, law and science. It concludes with a thoroughly comprehensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources. This is an essential reference tool for anyone working in the fields of seventeenth-century philosophy and political theory.

The Cambridge Companion to Aquinas

The Cambridge Companion to Aquinas
Author: Norman Kretzmann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1993-05-28
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1139825097

Among the great philosophers of the Middle Ages Aquinas is unique in pursuing two apparently disparate projects. On the one hand he developed a philosophical understanding of Christian doctrine in a fully integrated system encompassing all natural and supernatural reality. On the other hand, he was convinced that Aristotle's philosophy afforded the best available philosophical component of such a system. In a relatively brief career Aquinas developed these projects in great detail and with an astonishing degree of success. In this volume ten leading scholars introduce all the important aspects of Aquinas' thought, ranging from its historical background and dependence on Greek, Islamic, and Jewish philosophy and theology, through the metaphysics, epistemology and ethics, to the philosophical approach to Biblical commentary.

The Bloomsbury Companion to Ethics

The Bloomsbury Companion to Ethics
Author: Christian Miller
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2014-09-25
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1472567811

The Bloomsbury Companion to Ethics offers the definitive guide to this key area of contemporary philosophy. Covering all the fundamental questions asked by meta-ethics and normative ethical theory, thirteen specially commissioned chapters from an international team of experts explore the central ideas, terms and case studies in the field, and new directions in ethics as a whole. Now available in paperback, the Companion to Ethics covers issues such as moral methodology, moral realism, ethical expressivism, constructivism and the error theory, morality and practical reason, moral psychology, morality and religion, consequentialism, Kantian ethics, virtue ethics, feminist ethics, moral particularism, experimental ethics, and biology, evolution and ethics. Featuring a series of indispensable research tools, including key technical terms, a historical chronology, a detailed list of internet resources for research in ethics, and a thorough list of recommended works for further study, this is the essential resource for anyone studying, researching and writing in contemporary philosophical ethics.

The Bloomsbury Companion to Plato

The Bloomsbury Companion to Plato
Author: Gerald A. Press
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2015-12-17
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1474250920

Plato, mathematician, philosopher and founder of the Academy in Athens, is, together with his teacher, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, universally considered to have laid the foundations of Western philosophy. The Bloomsbury Companion to Plato provides a comprehensive and accessible study guide to Plato's thought. Written by a team of leading experts in the field of ancient philosophy, this companion covers five major areas; - Plato's life and his historical, philosophical and literary context - synopses of all the dialogues attributed to Plato - the most important features of the dialogues - the key themes and topics apparent in the dialogues - Plato's enduring influence and the various interpretative approaches applied to his thought throughout the history of philosophy Covering every aspect of Plato's thought in over 140 entries, The Bloomsbury Companion to Plato is an engaging introduction to Plato and an essential resource for anyone working in the field of ancient philosophy.

The Bloomsbury Companion to M. A. K. Halliday

The Bloomsbury Companion to M. A. K. Halliday
Author: Jonathan J. Webster
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 871
Release: 2015-02-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 144110254X

The Bloomsbury Companion to M. A. K. Halliday is a comprehensive and accessible reference resource to one of the world's leading and most influential linguists. Born in 1925, Halliday is the figure most responsible for the development of systemic functional linguistics (SFL). The impact of his work extends beyond linguistics, into the study of stylistics, computation linguistics, visual narrative and multimodal communication. He is considered a founder of the field of social semiotics. Written by leading figures in the field, the volume provides readers with an authoritative overview of his early career, his most important theoretical findings and how his work has influenced linguistics as a discipline. From the publishers of his 'Collected Works' and 'The Essential Halliday', this is another must have book underlining Halliday's era-defining impact on the field of linguistics.