The Summa Halensis
The Summa Halensis

Author: Lydia Schumacher

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2020-06-22

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 3110685000

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For generations, early Franciscan thought has been widely regarded as unoriginal: a mere attempt to systematize the longstanding intellectual tradition of Augustine in the face of the rising popularity of Aristotle. This volume brings together leading scholars in the field to undertake a major study of the major doctrines and debates of the so-called Summa Halensis (1236-45), which was collaboratively authored by the founding members of the Franciscan school at Paris, above all, Alexander of Hales, and John of La Rochelle, in an effort to lay down the Franciscan intellectual tradition or the first time. The contributions will highlight that this tradition, far from unoriginal, laid the groundwork for later Franciscan thought, which is often regarded as formative for modern thought. Furthermore, the volume shows the role this Summa played in the development of the burgeoning field of systematic theology, which has its origins in the young university of Paris. This is a crucial and groundbreaking study for those with interests in the history of western thought and theology specifically.

Magdalene's Lost Legacy
Magdalene's Lost Legacy

Author: Margaret Starbird

Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

Published: 2003-05-05

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 9781591430124

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Using New Testament "gematria, " symbolic number values encoded in the Greek phrases, the author reveals that the sacred couple was one of the essential pillars of early Christian teachings, before being denied by the architects of institutional Christianity and obscured by later Church doctrine.

Bibliographia Cartesiana
Bibliographia Cartesiana

Author: Gregor Sebba

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 1964-07-31

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13: 9789024701810

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This book offers a new type of working tool for Cartesian studies. It presents the literature of the last 160 years in alphabetical order (Part Two), combined with a systematic analytical survey (Part One) and a detailed topical index to the whole (Part Three). This organization makes it possible to turn bibliogra phy from a repository of references into a workshop of research. The system atic survey of Part One and the topical index of Part Three, together, offer a mise au point of Descartes studies over their full historical and topical range. The results have often been surprising and illuminating to the author, and if his experience is any guide, the reader, too, will begin to wonder about certain seemingly well-settled points, or marvel at the Protean shapes which our elusive philosopher assumes when mighty commentators force him to reveal his true nature. A work which has been in the making for fifteen years must show the traces of expansion in scope, and changes in evaluation. Bibliographia cartesiana amends my Descartes chapter in A Critical Bibliography of French Literature, v. 3, 1961 (see no. I9a), and supersedes an earlier version of Parts One and Two, published in 1959 under the main title Descartes and his Philosophy, v. 1 (set: no. I8a). Part I (Introduction to Descartes Studies) divides the field into eleven broad areas.

Logic and Theism
Logic and Theism

Author: Jordan Howard Sobel

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-11-10

Total Pages: 676

ISBN-13: 1139449982

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This is a wide-ranging 2004 book about arguments for and against beliefs in God. This book will be a valuable resource for philosophers of religion and theologians and will interest logicians and mathematicians as well.

Las pruebas de la existencia de Dios en el Proslogio de San Anselmo
Las pruebas de la existencia de Dios en el Proslogio de San Anselmo

Author: Antonio Álvarez García

Publisher: Universidad Almería

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9788482403298

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La razón discursiva es la que permite a Anselmo en su Proslogio que el espíritu se desplace desde la fe que cree a la inteligencia que demuestra, y de aquí a la visión intutitiva que promete la felicidad. Entendemos, nos dice Anselmo, que Dios es la cosa mayor que la cual no puede pensarse otra. La intelección de esta breve y universal definición de Dios, argumenta el autor del Proslogio y de la Réplica a Gaunilo, implica a la vez la existencia fáctica del objeto definido y la imposibilidad noética de concebirlo como no-existente. La idea de Dios se impone, pues, con tal fuerza, que el hecho de entenderla lleva consigo saber que Dios existe y hasta el punto de que su inexistencia no es pensable.

The Summa Halensis
The Summa Halensis

Author: Lydia Schumacher

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2020-05-05

Total Pages: 413

ISBN-13: 3110685108

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For generations, early Franciscan thought has been widely regarded as unoriginal: a mere attempt to systematize the longstanding intellectual tradition of Augustine in the face of the rising popularity of Aristotle. This volume brings together leading scholars in the field to undertake a major study of the sources and context of the so-called Summa Halensis (1236-45), which was collaboratively authored by the founding members of the Franciscan school at Paris, above all, Alexander of Hales, and John of La Rochelle, in an effort to lay down the Franciscan intellectual tradition or the first time. The contributions will highlight that this tradition, far from unoriginal, laid the groundwork for later Franciscan thought, which is often regarded as formative for modern thought. Furthermore, the volume shows the role this Summa played in the development of the burgeoning field of systematic theology, which has its origins in the young university of Paris. This is a crucial and groundbreaking study for those with interests in the history of western thought and theology specifically.

The Logic of Being
The Logic of Being

Author: Simo Knuuttila

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 9400947801

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The last twenty years have seen remarkable developments in our understanding of how the ancient Greek thinkers handled the general concept of being and its several varieties. The most general examination of the meaning of the Greek verb 'esti'/'einai'/'on' both in common usage and in the philosophical literature has been presented by Charles H. Kahn, most extensively in his 1973 book The Verb 'Be' in Ancient Greek. These discussions are summarized in Kahn's contribution to this volume. By and large, they show that conceptual schemes by means of which philosophers have recently approached Greek thought have not been very well suited to the way the concept of being was actually used by the ancients. For one thing, being in the sense of existence played a very small role in Greek thinking according to Kahn. Even more importantly, Kahn has argued that Frege and Russell's thesis that verbs for being, such as 'esti', are multiply ambiguous is ill suited for the purpose of appreciating the actual conceptual assumptions of the Greek thinkers. Frege and Russell claimed that a verb like 'is' or'esti' is ambiguous between the 'is' of identity, the 'is' of existence, the copulative 'is', and the generic 'is' (the 'is' of class-inclusion). At least a couple of generations of scholars have relied on this thesis and fre quently criticized sundry ancients for confusing these different senses of 'esti' with each other.