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Author: William of Ockham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995-09-28
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780521358040
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe key ideas on authority of a powerful and historically important thinker.
Author: William (of Ockham)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1992-08-20
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780521358033
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilliam of Ockham (c. 1285-c. 1347) was the most eminent and influential theologian and philosopher of his day, a giant in the history of political thought. He was a Franciscan friar who came to believe that the Avignonese papacy of John XXII had set out to destroy the religious ideal on which the Franciscan order was based: the complete poverty of Christ and the apostles. This is the first complete text by Ockham to be published in English. The Short Discourse is a passionate but compelling statement of Ockham's position on the most fundamental political problem of the medieval period: the relationship of supreme spiritual authority, as represented by the pope, to the autonomous secular authority claimed by the medieval empire and the emerging nation-states of Europe. Professor McGrade's introduction, and the notes on the translation make the volume wholly accessible to a modern readership, while a full bibliography and chronology are included as further aids to the reader.
Author: Mads L. Jensen
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-11-04
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9004414134
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is the first contextual account of the political philosophy and natural law theory of the German reformer Philipp Melanchthon (1497-1560). Mads Langballe Jensen presents Melanchthon as a significant political thinker in his own right and an engaged scholar drawing on the intellectual arsenal of renaissance humanism to develop a new Protestant political philosophy. As such, he also shows how and why natural law theories first became integral to Protestant political thought in response to the political and religious conflicts of the Reformation. This study offers new, contextual studies of a wide range of Melanchthon's works including his early humanist orations, commentaries on Aristotle's ethics and politics, Melanchthon's own textbooks on moral and political philosophy, and polemical works.
Author: Karen Louise Jolly
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2015-06-15
Total Pages: 399
ISBN-13: 1469611147
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn tenth- and eleventh-century England, Anglo-Saxon Christians retained an old folk belief in elves as extremely dangerous creatures capable of harming unwary humans. To ward off the afflictions caused by these invisible beings, Christian priests modified traditional elf charms by adding liturgical chants to herbal remedies. In Popular Religion in Late Saxon England, Karen Jolly traces this cultural intermingling of Christian liturgy and indigenous Germanic customs and argues that elf charms and similar practices represent the successful Christianization of native folklore. Jolly describes a dual process of conversion in which Anglo-Saxon culture became Christianized but at the same time left its own distinct imprint on Christianity. Illuminating the creative aspects of this dynamic relationship, she identifies liturgical folk medicine as a middle ground between popular and elite, pagan and Christian, magic and miracle. Her analysis, drawing on the model of popular religion to redefine folklore and magic, reveals the richness and diversity of late Saxon Christianity.
Author: Paul Vincent Spade
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999-12-13
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780521587907
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers a full discussion of all significant aspects of this medieval philosopher's thought.
Author: L. T. Hobhouse
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994-01-27
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780521437264
DOWNLOAD EBOOKL. T. Hobhouse's Liberalism (1911), which has acquired the status of a modern classic, is the most enduring statement of the political principles which animated British liberal social reformers in the early years of the twentieth century. While written in a popular style, it is actually a theoretical work of some subtlety, combining an historical analysis of the evolution of liberal doctrine with a philosophical discussion of the character of liberal belief, and proposing a reformulation of liberalism which emphasises community, individual welfare rights, and an activist state. This 1994 edition of the work includes a number of his other writings from the same period, and will be of interest to a broad range of students and scholars in politics and the history of political thought.
Author: Matthew Arnold
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780521377966
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1869, this celebrated work of social criticism is the reference-point for all discussion of the relations between politics and culture.
Author: F. W. Maitland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-11-13
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780521526302
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essays collected in State, Trust and Corporation contain the reflections of England's greatest legal historian on the legal, historical and philosophical origins of the idea of the state. All written in the first years of the twentieth century, Maitland's essays are classics both of historical writing and of political theory. They contain a series of profound insights into the way the character of the state has been shaped by the non-political associations that exist alongside it, and their themes are of continuing relevance today. This is the first new edition of these essays for sixty years, and the first of any kind to contain full translations, glossary and expository introduction. It has been designed to make Maitland's writings fully accessible to the non-specialist, and to make available to anyone interested in the idea of the state some of the most important modern writings in English on that subject.
Author: Robert Filmer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1991-02-21
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780521399036
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume contains the political writings of Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653), perhaps the most important patriarchal political theorist of the seventeenth century
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2016-02-02
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9004309837
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume collects twelve chapters that present the multifaceted responses to the works of the William of Ockham in Oxford, Paris, Italy, and at the papal court in Avignon in the 14th century, and it assembles contributions on philosophers and theologians who all have criticized Ockham’s works at different points. In individual case studies it gives an exemplary overview over the reactions the Venerable Inceptor has provoked and also serves to better understand Ockham’s thought in its historical context. The topics range from ontology, psychology, theory of cognition, epistemology, and natural science to ethics and political philosophy. This volume demonstrates that the reactions to Ockham’s philosophy and theology were manifold, but one particular kind of reception is missing: unanimous approval. Contributors include Fabrizio Amerini, Stephen F. Brown, Nathaniel Bulthuis, Stefano Caroti, Laurent Cesalli, Alessandro D. Conti, Thomas Dewender, Isabel Iribarren, Isabelle Mandrella, Aurélien Robert, Christian Rode, and Sonja Schierbaum
