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Antike Und Mittelalter (German, Hardcover, Reprint 2012 ed.): Jochem Hennigfeld Antike Und Mittelalter (German, Hardcover, Reprint 2012 ed.)
Jochem Hennigfeld
R5,743 Discovery Miles 57 430 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Die Transformation des klassischen Seinsverstandnisses (German, Hardcover, Reprint 2011 ed.): Rolf Schoenberger Die Transformation des klassischen Seinsverstandnisses (German, Hardcover, Reprint 2011 ed.)
Rolf Schoenberger
R5,751 Discovery Miles 57 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Schriften in deutscher UEbersetzung / Vom Nichtanderen (German, Hardcover): Karl Bormann Schriften in deutscher UEbersetzung / Vom Nichtanderen (German, Hardcover)
Karl Bormann; Nikolaus Von Kues; Edited by Ernst Hoffmann
R1,621 Discovery Miles 16 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
On the Threshold of Exact Science - Selected Writings of Anneliese Meier on Late Medieval Natural Philosophy (Hardcover):... On the Threshold of Exact Science - Selected Writings of Anneliese Meier on Late Medieval Natural Philosophy (Hardcover)
Annelise Maier; Edited by Steven D Sargent
R2,374 Discovery Miles 23 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Translated into English for the first time, the writings of the twentieth-century scholar Annelise Maier on late medieval natural philosophy are here made accessible to a broader audience. The seven selections represent both Maier's earlier and later works. Her perceptions as a trained philosopher, coupled with her familiarity with the full range of primary source material, result in these rare insights into the historical importance of medieval science.

On Exile (Hardcover): Francesco Filelfo On Exile (Hardcover)
Francesco Filelfo; Edited by Jeroen De Keyser; Translated by W.Scott Blanchard
R822 Discovery Miles 8 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Francesco Filelfo's philosophical dialogue On Exile (ca. 1440) depicts a prominent group of Florentine noblemen and humanists, driven from their city by Cosimo de' Medici, discussing the sufferings imposed by exile such as poverty and loss of reputation, and the best way to endure and even profit from them. This volume contains the first complete edition of the Latin text and the first complete translation into any modern language.

UEber die Verpflichtungen. De obligaionibus. (German, Hardcover): Franz Schupp UEber die Verpflichtungen. De obligaionibus. (German, Hardcover)
Franz Schupp; Martinus Anglicus
R1,404 Discovery Miles 14 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Consolation of Philosophy (Paperback, Critical edition): Boethius The Consolation of Philosophy (Paperback, Critical edition)
Boethius; Edited by Douglas C. Langston
R480 Discovery Miles 4 800 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The Consolation of Philosophy occupies a central place in the history of Western thought. Its author, Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (ca. 476-526 c.e.), was a Roman philosopher, scholar, and statesman who wrote The Consolation of Philosophy while in a remote prison awaiting his execution on dubious political charges. The text of this Norton Critical Edition is based on the translation by Richard H. Green. It is accompanied by the editor's preface and full-scale introduction to the work, the translator's preface, and explanatory annotations. "Contexts" reprints selections from the texts that Boethius drew upon for his own work. These include excerpts from two of Plato's Dialogues (Gorgias and Timaeus), from Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, and from Augustine's On Free Choice of the Will. "Criticism" collects five wide-ranging essays by major scholars of Boethius. Henry Chadwick presents a general introduction to Boethius's life and works. Nelson Pike presents a clear and insightful interpretation of what Boethius means by writing that God is eternal (timeless). The final three essays-by William Bark, Edmund Reiss, and John Marenbon-all depart from traditional readings of The Consolation of Philosophy in significant ways and are sure to stimulate classroom discussion. A Chronology of Boethius's life and work and a Selected Bibliography are also included.

Sense and Contradiction: A Study in Aristotle (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1975): R.M. Dancy Sense and Contradiction: A Study in Aristotle (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1975)
R.M. Dancy
R1,499 Discovery Miles 14 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This study began as a paper. It got out of hand. It had help doing that. Oswaldo Chateaubriand, Ronald Haver, Paul Horwich, Bernie Katz, Norman Kretzmann, Stanley Martens, Stephen Pink, Michael Stokes, Eleanor Stump, Bill Ulrich, Celia Wolf, and a lot of other people questioned or criticized or helped reformulate one or another of the arguments and interpretations along the way. In spite of (maybe partly because of) their efforts, the book is full of mistakes. At least, induction over previous drafts indicates that irresistibly. But I do not, right now, know of any particular mistakes. All but a couple of the translations are mine (the exceptions are noted). That is not because existing translations are bad, but because some uniformity was essential. The translations often make unpleasant reading. So, often, does Aristotle; I have tried to be literal. A text and translation of the passage on which the book centers is in Appendix III. Footnotes cite literature by author and (sometimes abbreviated) title. Details are in the bibliography. I do not profess to have covered all the literature. An enormous amount of editorial work was done by Margaret Mundy. She was not able to undo the errors that remain. In particular, the footnotes are often numbered oddly: '4', '4a', '4b', etc.

The Arrogance of Humanism (Paperback, New ed): David Ehrenfeld The Arrogance of Humanism (Paperback, New ed)
David Ehrenfeld
R591 Discovery Miles 5 910 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

An inquiry into the origins, dissemination, and consequences of the modern belief that humans can solve any problem and overcome any difficulty, given time and resources enough.

Trinitat als Archetyp?; Erlauterungen zu C. G. Jung, Hegel und Augustinus (German, Paperback): Erwin Schadel, Heinrich Beck Trinitat als Archetyp?; Erlauterungen zu C. G. Jung, Hegel und Augustinus (German, Paperback)
Erwin Schadel, Heinrich Beck; Erwin Schadel
R1,456 Discovery Miles 14 560 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In den Essays dieses Buches geht es darum, in problemorientierter Durchmusterung dreier historisch wirksamer Denkansatze Perspektiven fur integrale Zukunftsgestaltung zu gewinnen. Thematisiert werden Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961), der zu den Pionieren moderner Tiefenpsychologie gezahlt wird und in seinen Analysen des "Archetyps" der Trinitat ein Modell fur menschliche Selbstfindung vorlegt, der protestantische Theologe Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), der das Trinitarische im Medium seiner aprioristisch deduzierten Dialektik als die alles bewirkende Selbstentfaltung des reinen Begriffes darstellt, der lateinische Kirchenvater Aurelius Augustinus (354-430), der wahrend seiner Auseinandersetzung mit den antiken Skeptikern in menschlicher Geistinnerlichkeit das lebendig pulsierende Ineinander von Sein, Erkennen und Wollen entdeckt und diese onto-logo-ethische Ganzheit als in-ek-kon-sistenzalen Prozess erlautert, welcher, in Bedingtes und Unbedingtes spezifiziert, ein universales Format aufzuweisen hat. In ganzheitlich orientierten Eroerterungen wird die unloesbare Verflochtenheit von Welt-, Selbst- und Gotteserkenntnis hervorgehoben. Im Bezug auf Hegel und den (bisweilen) "hegelianisierenden" C. G. Jung ist dabei anzumerken, dass reines Begriffsdenken, das methodisch die Totalabstraktion alles Inhaltlichen voraussetzt, zu einer Hypostasierung des Negativen fuhrt. Die dadurch entstehenden Aporien finden eine Aufloesung, sobald die inhaltsbezogene Abstraktion rekultiviert wird und - von Augustinus her - alles Raumzeitliche in spezifisch begrenzter Teilhabe an der an sich unbegrenzten Positivitat des trikausalen Seinsgrundes betrachtet wird. Das prozess- und relationstheoretisch interpretierte Theologumenon der Trinitat lasst sich, kurz gesagt, als dasjenige auffassen, was es ermoeglicht, die in fruher Neuzeit entstandene Diastase zwischen Glaubens- und Wissensanspruchen (zwischen einem Fideismus, der nichts wissen will, und einem Rationalismus, der nichts glauben will) zu uberwinden.

The Vatican Mythographers (Hardcover): Ronald E. Pepin The Vatican Mythographers (Hardcover)
Ronald E. Pepin
R1,977 Discovery Miles 19 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Vatican Mythographers offers the first complete English translation of three important sources of knowledge about the survival of classical mythology from the Carolingian era to the High Middle Ages and beyond. The Latin texts were discovered in manuscripts in the Vatican library and published together in the nineteenth century. The three so-called Vatican Mythographers compiled, analyzed, interpreted, and transmitted a vast collection of myths for use by students, poets, and artists. In terms consonant with Christian purposes, they elucidated the fabulous narratives and underlying themes in the works of Ovid, Virgil, Statius, and other poets of antiquity. In so doing, the Vatican Mythographers provided handbooks that included descriptions of ancient rites and customs, curious etymologies, and, above all, moral allegories. Thus we learn that Bacchus is a naked youth who rides a tiger because drunkenness is never mature, denudes us of possessions, and begets ferocity; or that Ulysses, husband of Penelope, passed by the monstrous Scylla unharmed because a wise man bound to chastity overcomes lust. The extensive collection of myths illustrates how this material was used for moral lessons. To date, the works of the Vatican Mythographers have remained inaccessible to scholars and students without a good working knowledge of Latin. The translation thus fulfills a scholarly void. It is prefaced by an introduction that discusses the purposes of the Vatican Mythographers, the influences on them, and their place in medieval and Renaissance mythography. Of course, it also entertains with a host of stories whose undying appeal captivates, charms, inspires, instructs, and sometimes horrifiesus.The book should have wide appeal for a whole range of university courses involving myth.

Vom Leben zur Bedeutung - Philosophische Studien zum Verhaltnis von Gefuhl, Bewusstsein und Sprache (German, Hardcover):... Vom Leben zur Bedeutung - Philosophische Studien zum Verhaltnis von Gefuhl, Bewusstsein und Sprache (German, Hardcover)
Eva-Maria Engelen
R2,135 Discovery Miles 21 350 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The new series of Ideen&Argumente subscribes to the ideal of a pluralist and open culture of argument and debate and presents well-produced volumes on topics and questions which make substantive or methodologically important contributions to contemporary philosophy. The publications are designed to effect a productive synergy between the Anglo-Saxon and Continental European philosophical traditions. Ideen&Argumente provides a platform for outstanding systematically oriented original editions and German first editions from all areas of Theoretical and Practical Philosophy. A welcome is extended to programmatic monographs from whatever philosophical direction. The aim is to highlight anew the thematic and methodological richness of contemporary philosophy.

Sidgwick's The Methods of Ethics - A Guide (Hardcover): David Phillips Sidgwick's The Methods of Ethics - A Guide (Hardcover)
David Phillips
R2,695 Discovery Miles 26 950 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Henry Sidgwick's The Methods of Ethics has been a central part of the utilitarian canon since its publication in 1874. This book, part of the Oxford Guides to Philosophy series, is a consice companion to Sidgwick's masterpiece, written primarily to aid advanced undergraduate students and interested general readers in navigatiing and interpreting the original text. Author David Phillips connects Sidgwick's work to work in contemporary moral philosophy and in the history of moral philosophy, paying particular attention to his relationships with key predecessors, including Kant and Mill, and with Moore and Ross, his most influencial successors in the British intuitionist tradition. The book's first eight chapters end with brief suggestions for further reading. At the end of the final three chapters there are more substantial overviews of the secondary literature on the aspects of Sidgwick's work that have generated the most interest among his commentators: metaethics and moral epistemology; consequentialism versus deontology; and egoism and the dualism of practical reason. The result is an Oxford Guide that will be a helpful resource for both students and scholars.

Improvising Improvisation – From Out of Philosophy, Music, Dance, and Literature (Paperback): Gary Peters Improvising Improvisation – From Out of Philosophy, Music, Dance, and Literature (Paperback)
Gary Peters
R949 Discovery Miles 9 490 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

There is an ever-increasing number of books on improvisation, ones that richly recount experiences in the heat of the creative moment, theorize on the essence of improvisation, and offer convincing arguments for improvisation’s impact across a wide range of human activity. This book is nothing like that. In a provocative and at times moving experiment, Gary Peters takes a different approach, turning the philosophy of improvisation upside-down and inside-out.             Guided by Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, and especially Deleuze—and exploring a range of artists from Hendrix to Borges—Peters illuminates new fundamentals about what, as an experience, improvisation truly is. As he shows, improvisation isn’t so much a genre, idiom, style, or technique—it’s a predicament we are thrown into, one we find ourselves in. The predicament, he shows, is a complex entwinement of choice and decision. The performativity of choice during improvisation may happen “in the moment,†but it is already determined by an a priori mode of decision. In this way, improvisation happens both within and around the actual moment, negotiating a simultaneous past, present, and future. Examining these and other often ignored dimensions of spontaneous creativity, Peters proposes a consistently challenging and rigorously argued new perspective on improvisation across an extraordinary range of disciplines.   

The Earthly Republic - Italian Humanists on Government and Society (Paperback): Benjamin G Kohl, Ronald G Witt The Earthly Republic - Italian Humanists on Government and Society (Paperback)
Benjamin G Kohl, Ronald G Witt
R900 Discovery Miles 9 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The gradual secularization of European society and culture is often said to characterize the development of the modern world, and the early Italian humanists played a pioneering role in this process. Here Benjamin G. Kohl and Ronald G. Witt, with Elizabeth B. Welles, have edited and translated seven primary texts that shed important light on the subject of "civic humanism" in the Renaissance.Included is a treatise of Francesco Petrarca on government, two representative letters from Coluccio Salutati, Leonardo Bruni's panegyric to Florence, Francesco Barbaro's letter on "wifely" duty, Poggio Bracciolini's dialogue on avarice, and Angelo Poliziano's vivid history of the Pazzi conspiracy. Each translation is prefaced by an essay on the author and a short bibliography. The substantial introductory essay offers a concise, balanced summary of the historiographcal issues connected with the period.

Readings in Medieval Philosophy (Paperback): Klima Readings in Medieval Philosophy (Paperback)
Klima
R1,080 Discovery Miles 10 800 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This collection of readings with extensive editorial commentary brings together key texts of the most influential philosophers of the medieval era to provide a comprehensive introduction for students of philosophy.
Features the writings of Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Boethius, John Duns Scotus and other leading medieval thinkers
Features several new translations of key thinkers of the medieval era, including John Buridan and Averroes
Readings are accompanied by expert commentary from the editors, who are leading scholars in the field

Politischer Aristotelismus Und Religion in Mittelalter Und Fruher Neuzeit (German, Hardcover): Alexander Fidora, Johannes... Politischer Aristotelismus Und Religion in Mittelalter Und Fruher Neuzeit (German, Hardcover)
Alexander Fidora, Johannes Fried, Matthias Lutz-Bachmann, Luise Schorn-Schutte
R3,380 R2,641 Discovery Miles 26 410 Save R739 (22%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Im Zentrum dieses Bandes steht die Untersuchung des Wechselspiels und der Eigenlogik von Politik, Religion und Philosophie im Mittelalter und in der Fruhen Neuzeit. Untersucht wird die Differenzierung religioser und politischer Diskurse im Medium der aristotelischen Philosophietradition. Den Leitgedanken bildet dabei die Frage nach der Art und Weise, in der verschiedene Autoren jener Epoche teils affirmativ, teils polemisch auf Aristoteles und seine Philosophie Bezug nahmen und so zur Herausbildung einer bestimmten Form von Politischem Aristotelismus beitrugen, der religiose und philosophische Argumentationen in ihren Geltungsanspruchen kritisch gegeneinander abhebt. Die diachrone Perspektive und die Gleichzeitigkeit von historischer und philosophischer Betrachtungsweise der Studien dieses Buchs fordern nicht nur bedeutende Ergebnisse im Hinblick auf die jeweils untersuchten Autoren und Problemzusammenhange zutage, sondern erproben anhand des Politischen Aristotelismus zugleich ein Deutungsmuster fur das Verhaltnis von Wissenskultur und gesellschaftlichem Wandel uberhaupt."

Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Spell of John Duns Scotus (Paperback): John Llewelyn Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Spell of John Duns Scotus (Paperback)
John Llewelyn
R626 Discovery Miles 6 260 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The early medieval Scottish philosopher and theologian John Duns Scotus shook traditional doctrines of universality and particularity by arguing for a metaphysics of 'formal distinction'. Why did the nineteenth-century poet and self-styled philosopher Gerard Manley Hopkins find this revolutionary teaching so appealing? John Llewelyn answers this question by casting light on various neologisms introduced by Hopkins and reveals how Hopkins endorses Scotus claim that being and existence are grounded in doing and willing. Drawing on modern responses to Scotus made by Heidegger, Peirce, Arendt, Leibniz, Hume, Reid, Derrida and Deleuze, Llewelyn's own response shows by way of bonus why it would be a pity to suppose that the rewards of reading Scotus and Hopkins are available only to those who share their theological presuppositions.

Thomas von Aquin (German, Hardcover, Reprint 2012 ed.): Albert Zimmermann, Clemens Kopp Thomas von Aquin (German, Hardcover, Reprint 2012 ed.)
Albert Zimmermann, Clemens Kopp
R8,231 Discovery Miles 82 310 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Das Buch Der Wahrheit (German, Hardcover): Heinrich Seuse Das Buch Der Wahrheit (German, Hardcover)
Heinrich Seuse; Edited by Rudiger Blumrich, Loris Sturlese
R1,187 Discovery Miles 11 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Complete Essays (Paperback, Reissue): Michel Montaigne The Complete Essays (Paperback, Reissue)
Michel Montaigne; Translated by M.A. Screech
R707 R624 Discovery Miles 6 240 Save R83 (12%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

'Montaigne is one of the great sages of that modern world which in a sense began with the Renaissance. He is the bridge linking the thought of pagan antiquity and of Christian antiquity with our own.' In 1572 Montaigne retired from public life and began the reading and writing which were to develop into 'assays' of his thoughts and opinions. Nobody in Western civilization had ever tried to do what Montaigne set out to do. In a vivid, contemporary style he surprises us with entertaining quotations; he moves swiftly from thought to thought, often digressing from an idea only to return to it triumphantly, having caught up with it elsewhere, and in so doing leads the reader along the criss-cross paths of a journey of discovery. Montaigne set out to discover himself. What he discovered instead was the human race.

Hildegard of Bingen: On Natural Philosophy and Medicine - Selections from Cause et Cure (Paperback): Margret Berger Hildegard of Bingen: On Natural Philosophy and Medicine - Selections from Cause et Cure (Paperback)
Margret Berger
R613 Discovery Miles 6 130 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Medieval attitudes to health and treatment revealed in Hildegard's treatise. Hildegard of Bingen [1098-1179], an important figure in her own time, has come increasingly to critical attention in recent years. Cause et Cure, attributed to Hildegard, is both a cosmological text and a medical handbook;it is a densely layered work woven together from diverse threads. It begins with a chapter on cosmology which leads to consideration of the human being as a small-scale copy of the universe. From here the focus shifts to the diseases and disorders which afflict human beings. The sections on treatment which follow provide information on medieval pharmacology and herbal healing. The text discusses the differences between male and female, human sexuality, embryology, sleep and dreams, signs predicting death or survival, astrological influences. The Introduction sketches Hildegard's life and career, and describes the cultural context with emphasis on medieval medicine. The Interpretive Essay discusses the selections presented in translation and alerts the reader to the benefits as well as the limits of medieval health care. MARGRET BERGER, formerly Associate Professor in the Division of Interdisciplinary Studies [German] at Simon Fraser University, has specialised in medieval German literature and Romance philology.

On the Donation of Constantine (Hardcover): Lorenzo Valla On the Donation of Constantine (Hardcover)
Lorenzo Valla; Translated by G.W. Bowersock
R800 Discovery Miles 8 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Lorenzo Valla (1407-1457) was the most important theorist of the humanist movement. He wrote a major work on Latin style, "On Elegance in the Latin Language," which became a battle-standard in the struggle for the reform of Latin across Europe, and "Dialectical Disputations," a wide-ranging attack on scholastic logic. His most famous work is "On the Donation of Constantine," an oration in which Valla uses new philological methods to attack the authenticity of the most important document justifying the papacy's claims to temporal rule. It appears here in a new translation with introduction and notes by G. W. Bowersock, based on the critical text of Wolfram Setz (1976). This volume also includes a text and translation of the "Constitutum Constantini," commonly known as the "Donation of Constantine."

Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives in Metaphysics (Paperback): Daniel D. Novotny, Lukas Novak Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives in Metaphysics (Paperback)
Daniel D. Novotny, Lukas Novak
R1,482 Discovery Miles 14 820 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume re-examines some of the major themes at the intersection of traditional and contemporary metaphysics. The book uses as a point of departure Francisco Suarez's Metaphysical Disputations published in 1597. Minimalist metaphysics in empiricist/pragmatist clothing have today become mainstream in analytic philosophy. Independently of this development, the progress of scholarship in ancient and medieval philosophy makes clear that traditional forms of metaphysics have affinities with some of the streams in contemporary analytic metaphysics. The book brings together leading contemporary metaphysicians to investigate the viability of a neo-Aristotelian metaphysics.

Mentales Leben und materielle Welt (German, Hardcover, Reprint 2016 ed.): Heinz-Dieter Heckmann Mentales Leben und materielle Welt (German, Hardcover, Reprint 2016 ed.)
Heinz-Dieter Heckmann
R5,122 Discovery Miles 51 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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