Kategoria BISAC: Philosophy >> History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical

Von dem Gesetzestraktat der Summa Halensis lag bislang nur der lateinische Text in einer kritischen Edition aus dem Jahr 1948 vor. Mit der dreibandigen Publikation werden nun erstmals zusammen mit dem lateinischen Text auch eine deutsche Ubersetzung und ein Kommentar zu diesem bedeutenden Werk im Ubergang von der Fruh- zur Hochscholastik vorgelegt.

In konzeptioneller Hinsicht war dieser Traktat mit seiner Begrundung und Entfaltung der unterschiedlichen Auspragungen des Gesetzes - als ewiges Gesetz, Naturgesetz, mosaisches Gesetz und evangelisches Gesetz - grundlegend....

Priscian of Lydia was one of the Athenian philosophers who took refuge in 531 AD with King Khosroes I of Persia, after the Christian Emperor Justinian stopped the teaching of the pagan Neoplatonist school in Athens. This was one of the earliest examples of the sixth-century diffusion of the philosophy of the commentators to other cultures.

Tantalisingly, Priscian fully recorded in Greek the answers provided by the Athenian philosophers to the king's questions on philosophy and science. But these answers survive only in a later Latin translation which understood both the Greek and the...

We know that certain values or beliefs can undergo crises, but what if reality itself started to disintegrate? Yet if we wish to change our world, first we have to change our understanding of reality.

Technic and Magic: The Reconstruction of Reality examines why and how we have reached the current condition of a seeming paralysis of action and imagination. Contemporary reality is structured around the morphological principle of technology, which informs every aspect of our way of understanding, imagining, and operating in the world. The first part of this book engages with...

We know that certain values or beliefs can undergo crises, but what if reality itself started to disintegrate? Yet if we wish to change our world, first we have to change our understanding of reality.

Technic and Magic: The Reconstruction of Reality examines why and how we have reached the current condition of a seeming paralysis of action and imagination. Contemporary reality is structured around the morphological principle of technology, which informs every aspect of our way of understanding, imagining, and operating in the world. The first part of this book engages with...