Kategoria BISAC: Philosophy >> History & Surveys - Medieval

The three ancient commentaries on Aristotle's On the Soul (De anima) are interesting because the commentators, as neo-Platonists, understand the soul completely differently than Aristotle. For them, the soul is the inseperable life principle of the body, a spiritual entity. In response to this challenge, the commentator Priscian (ca. 530 AD) develops the most detailed antique theory of human self-consciousness, which is reconstructed here for the first time.

The edition of the works of the three sixth-century BC Milesian philosophers, Thales, Anaximander and Anaximenes, follows the chronological arrangement (from Plato and Aristotle to Albertus Magnus) of the underlying concept of the new edition of Pre-Socratic philosophers - that is to document their transmission and the intentions behind the various traditions. The Greek, Latin and Syro-Arabian textual evidence is presented together with a German translation. The texts are supplemented by explanatory footnotes, a critical apparatus and, above all, an apparatus listing similia to support...

The opening sections of some exegetical Midrashim deal with the same type of material that is found in introductions to medieval rabbinic Bible commentaries. The application of Goldberg s form analysis to these sections reveals the new form Inner-Midrashic Introduction (IMI) as a thematic discourse on introductory issues to biblical books. By its very nature the IMI is embedded within the comments on the first biblical verse (1:1). Further analysis of medieval rabbinic Bible commentary introductions in terms of their formal, thematic, and material characteristics, reveals that a high...

Ist die Philosophie durch eine Wissenschaftslandschaft gefahrdet, die zunehmend von Nutzenerwartungen gepragt wird? Aus welchen Grunden, mit welchen Zielen und Absichten wird Philosophie denn uberhaupt betrieben? Die Leitfragen dieses Sammelbands beruhren das Selbstverstandnis der Philosophie. Namhafte Autoren untersuchen historische, systematische und gesellschaftliche Positionen zu diesen Fragen und geben grundlegende Antworten. Dabei geht es nicht nur um die Legitimation der philosophischen Tatigkeit, sondern wesentlich um ihr inhaltliches Verstandnis.

"The Semantics of Analogy" is the first book-length interpretive study in English of Thomas de Vio Cajetan's (1469?-1534) classic treatise on analogy. Written in 1498, "De Nominum Analogia" (On the Analogy of Names) has long been treated as Cajetan's attempt to systematize Aquinas's theory of analogy. A traditional interpretation regarded it as the official Thomistic treatise on analogy, but current scholarly consensus holds that Cajetan misinterpreted Aquinas and misunderstood the phenomenon of analogy.

Both approaches, argues Joshua P. Hochschild, ignore the philosophical and...

Die Autorin rekonstruiert die Entstehung und spezifische Struktur der fruhhumanistischen Moralphilosophie. Die Humanisten haben durch einen neuen Denkstil die scholastische Philosophie uberwunden. Sie haben nicht nur eine Antwort auf eine spezifische philosophische Problemlage entwickelt, sondern auch ethische Fragen und Probleme, die bis in die Neuzeit hinein relevant geblieben sind. Im ersten Teil widmet sich die Autorin dem moralphilosophischen Denken im Kontext der universitaren Philosophie und den Grunden fur die Uberwindung der scholastischen Philosophie. Danach werden exemplarisch...