Christianopolis
Christianopolis

Author: Johann Valentin Andreä

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 1999-05-31

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780792357452

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The Christianopolis (1619) of Johann Valentin Andreae describes in great detail a utopian community of scholar-craftsmen, as seen through the eyes of a naïve young traveller. It is a multi-level text, carefully constructed to provide both entertainment and a critique of contemporary society and religion, which could also be read as the prospectus for the establishment of a new community. This new translation aims to clarify Andreae's elliptical Latin for the first time by identifying parallel passages, allusions and sources for his ideas, and by linking Christianopolis with Andreae's other work as satirist, dramatist, poet and mathematician. A new model of his revision of ideas drawn from Campanella is put forward, and the politico-economic principles embodied in the text are explored. The translation should be of interest to students of the history of utopian ideas, and the history of economic thought.

Tragicorum Romanorum Fragmenta
Tragicorum Romanorum Fragmenta

Author: Otto Ribbeck

Publisher: Wentworth Press

Published: 2019-02-21

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9780469230774

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Collationes
Collationes

Author: Peter Abelard

Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9780198205791

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This critical edition of the Collationes - or Dialogue between a Christian, a Philosopher, and a Jew - contains aspects of Abelard's ethics, his eschatological theory, and ideas about faith and the relationship between theism and revealed religion.

Francisci de Marchia
Francisci de Marchia

Author: Franciscus

Publisher: Leuven University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 9058678474

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The texts edited in this volume deal with angelology and anthropology, and particularly with the nature and the functions of immaterial substances like angels and the human rational soul. Marchia discusses such controversial issues as universal hylomorphism, i.e., whether angels and the rational soul are composed of both matter and form (q.13), the immortality of the soul (qq. 18-19), and the nature and the object of the intellect and will (qq. 20,21), as well as the functionality of the angelic intellect - whether angels understand through discursive reasoning (q.23), and how they can speak with each other (q. 26). The problematic nature of the relationship between the material and the immaterial is approached through asking whether an angel can produce a material object (q.22) and whether a material object can be the source of an angel's understanding of that object (q.25).