Musical Humanism and Its Legacy
Author: Nancy Kovaleff Baker
Publisher: Pendragon Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 562
ISBN-13: 9780945193296
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Life's Form
Author: Dennis Des Chene
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780801437632
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSelected Works of William of Ockham Vol. 1
Author: William of Ockham O.F.M.
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2017-06-07
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1387024116
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYou are holding, to date the only critical study of the works by William of Ockham regarding his perception and teaching of the Corpus Christi. Within these pages are the main corpus of works which have been carefully screened from all extant works. The era is the early 1300's and the Christian Church is under siege of by the gradual infiltration of the writings of Aristotle into the West was not without profound repercussions on the speculative thought of the day. This was true not only in the field of natural philosophy but in an even more marked degree in the field of logic. Philosophy gained for itself more of an autonomous position without, however, becoming completely divorced from theology, the queen of the sciences. The great speculative minds of the day began to inquire more earnestly as to just which truths the human mind could demonstrate with certainty. The field of positive theology became more and more distinct from that of speculative theology.
The Science of the Soul
Author: Sander Wopke de Boer
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 9058679306
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAristotle's highly influential work on the soul, entitled De anima, formed part of the core curriculum of medieval universities and was discussed intensively. It covers a range of topics in philosophical psychology, such as the relationship between mind and body and the nature of abstract thought. However, there is a key difference in scope between the so-called "science of the soul," based on Aristotle, and modern philosophical psychology. This book starts from a basic premise accepted by all medieval commentators, namely that the science of the soul studies not just human beings but all living beings. As such, its methodology and approach must also apply to plants and animals. The Science of the Soul discusses how philosophers from Thomas Aquinas to Pierre d'Ailly dealt with the difficult task of giving a unified account of life and traces the various stages in the transformation of the science of the soul between 1260 and 1360. The emerging picture is that of a gradual disruption of the unified approach to the soul, which will ultimately lead to the emergence of psychology as a separate discipline.
St. Thomas and the Problem of the Soul in the Thirteenth Century
Author: Anton Charles Pegis
Publisher: PIMS
Published: 1934
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780888444066
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMachines of Nature and Corporeal Substances in Leibniz
Author: Justin E. H. Smith
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2011-01-04
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9400700415
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn recent decades, there has been much scholarly controversy as to the basic ontological commitments of the philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716). The old picture of his thought as strictly idealistic, or committed to the ultimate reduction of bodies to the activity of mind, has come under attack, but Leibniz's precise conceptualization of bodies, and the role they play in his system as a whole, is still the subject of much controversy. One thing that has become clear is that in order to understand the nature of body in Leibniz, and the role body plays in his philosophy, it is crucial to pay attention to the related concepts of organism and of corporeal substance, the former being Leibniz's account of the structure of living bodies (which turn out, for him, to be the only sort of bodies there are), and the latter being an inheritance from the Aristotelian hylomorphic tradition which Leibniz appropriates for his own ends. This volume brings together papers from many of the leading scholars of Leibniz's thought, all of which deal with the cluster of questions surrounding Leibniz's philosophy of body.
The Medical Enlightenment of the Eighteenth Century
Author: Andrew Cunningham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1990-07-19
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780521382359
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA series of essays on the development of medicine in the century of the Enlightenment, illustrating the decline in the role of religion in medical thinking, and the increased use of reason.
A Performer's Guide to Medieval Music
Author: Ross W. Duffin
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 618
ISBN-13: 9780253215338
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Performer's Guide to Medieval Music is an essential compilation of essays on all aspects of medieval music performance, with 40 essays by experts on everything from repertoire, voices, and instruments to basic theory. This concise, readable guide has proven indispensable to performers and scholars of medieval music.
Theories of Fugue from the Age of Josquin to the Age of Bach
Author: Paul Walker
Publisher: University Rochester Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9781580461504
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn analysis of the history and methodology of the pre-Bach baroque fugue.
Aquinas on Matter and Form and the Elements
Author: Joseph Bobik
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
Published: 1998-03-15
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 0268076332
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJoseph Bobik offers a translation of Aquinas’s De Principiis Naturae (circa 1252) and De Mixtione Elementorum (1273) accompanied by a continuous commentary, followed by two essays: “Elements in the Composition of Physical Substances” and “The Elements in Aquinas and the Elements Today.” The Principles of Nature introduces the reader to the basic Aristotelian principles such as matter and form, the four causes so fundamental to Aquinas’s philosophy. On Mixture of the Elements examines the question of how the four elements (earth, air, fire, and water) remain within the physical things composed from them.
