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This book is the result of a collective attempt to give a general survey of the development of atomism and its critics in the late Middle Ages. All the contributors focussed on the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries atomists and anti-atomists, with a thorough examination of some important figures, as Nicholas of Autrecourt or John Wyclif, and lesser known as Gerard of Odo or William Crathorn for example. From those essays on particular authors a new way of understanding the discussions of atomism in late medieval philosophy and theology emerges. This volume demonstrates the existence of strong and complicated connections between natural philosophy, mathematics and theology in the medieval discussions of the atomistic hypothesis. All chapters present a new research that will be of interest to historians of medieval philosophy, science and theology. Contributors include: Joël Biard, Sander W. de Boer, Jean Celeyrette, Christophe Grellard, Elżbieta Jung, Emily Michael, John E. Murdoch, Robert Podkoński, Aurélien Robert, and Rega Wood. Medieval and Early Modern Science , 9

Atomism. --- Philosophy, Medieval. --- Medieval philosophy --- Scholasticism --- Atomic theory --- Philosophy --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Pluralism --- Atomism --- Philosophy, Medieval --- Atomisme --- Philosophie médiévale

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This volume contains the first critical edition of Girald Odonis (d. 1349), De intentionibus , in which the author deals with the multifarious problems around conceptualization with which philosophers and theologians from around 1300 were faced when attempting to bridge the gap between thought and reality. Girald appears to have been an unyielding defender of the 'realistic' position, holding that our variously articulated concepts ( intentiones ) are representative of as many distinctions in Reality. The main target of his severe criticism upon contemporaneous views of the matter is Hervé de Nédellec, who was the first to write a monograph De intentionibus , which betrays his adherence to a moderate realism. The editor's extensive study of the intentionality debate of those years focusses on the development of the cognition theory in the period between Thomas Aquinas and Peter Auriol (d. 1322).

Philosophy, Medieval --- Medieval philosophy --- Scholasticism --- Philosophy, Medieval. --- Logic, Medieval --- Philosophie médiévale --- Logique médiévale --- Christian philosophy. --- Medieval philosophy. --- Philosophy, Christian --- Philosophy --- Christian philosophy --- Christian philosophers

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The origin of transcendental thought is not to be sought in Kant's philosophy but is a medieval achievement. This book provides for the first time a complete history of the doctrine of the transcendentals, from its beginning in the "Summa de bono" of Philip the Chancellor (ca. 1225) up to its most extensive systematic account in the "Metaphysical Disputations" of Francisco Suárez (1597). The book also shows the importance of the doctrine for the understanding of philosophy in the Middle Ages. Metaphysics is called "First Philosophy", not because it deals with the first, divine being, but because it treats that which is first in a cognitive sense, the transcendental concepts of "being", "one", "true" and "good". Winner of the Journal of the History of Philosophy Book Prize competition for the best book in the history of western philosophy published in 2013.

Transcendentals --- Philosophy, Medieval. --- Transcendentaux --- Philosophie médiévale --- Philosophie transcendantale --- Transcendentalism --- Histoire --- History. --- 291.1 --- Medieval philosophy --- Scholasticism --- Godsdienstfilosofie --- 291.1 Godsdienstfilosofie --- Philosophie médiévale --- Philosophy, Medieval --- History --- Philosophie médiévale. --- Histoire.

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Medieval Jewish intellectuals living in Muslim and Christian lands were strongly concerned to recover what they regarded as a 'lost' Jewish philosophical tradition. As part of this project they transmitted and produced many philosophical and scientific works and commentaries, as well as philosophical commentary on scripture, in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew, the principal literary languages of medieval Jewry. This volume presents translations of seven prominent medieval Jewish rationalists: Saadia Gaon, Solomon ibn Gabirol, Moses Maimonides, Isaac Albalag, Moses of Narbonne, Levi Gersonides, Hasdai Crescas and Joseph Albo - including, for the first time in English, the complete Falaquera abridgement of Gabirol's Source of Life. These works range over topics that are both theological (e.g. the creation of the world) and philosophical (e.g. determinism and free choice), but they are characterized by two overarching principles: the unity of truth, and its accessibility to human reason.

Jewish philosophy. --- Philosophy, Medieval. --- Philosophie juive --- Philosophie médiévale --- Philosophy --- Jewish religion --- anno 500-1499 --- Philosophy, Jewish. --- Jewish philosophy --- Philosophy, Medieval --- Medieval philosophy --- Scholasticism --- Jews --- Philosophy, Jewish --- Philosophy, Israeli --- Arts and Humanities

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La passion de l’unité : tel semble avoir été l’un des principaux moteurs de l’activité diplomatique et intellectuelle du cardinal Nicolas de Cues (1401-1464). Grande figure de l’humanisme naissant, ce dernier n’a de cesse de promouvoir la paix religieuse et d’en penser les fondements théoriques dans une époque troublée : deux de ses grands traités, La Paix de la foi, Le Tableau ou la vision de Dieu, écrits en 1453, année de la chute de Constantinople, présentent ainsi un étonnant contrepoint à la gravité des événements. Héritier tardif de toute la théologie négative chrétienne, le penseur croit reconnaître en un Dieu ineffable le principe et l’instrument de la concorde à l’œuvre dans le monde, jusque dans les rapports entre les hommes de cultures et de croyances diverses. Les textes qui composent cet ouvrage sont autant de contributions méthodologiques diverses à la compréhension de ce qui justifie et éclaire un tel irénisme religieux et philosophique. Fondés sur l’analyse des rapports entre l’unité, principe et fin de l’être, du connaître et de l’agir - la concorde -, et les capacités conjecturales de la pensée humaine à saisir cette unité en Dieu, ils tentent d’éprouver la cohérence et l’intérêt des propositions philosophiques de Nicolas de Cues dans les différents champs qu’elles traversent : l’ecclésiologie, la littérature utopique, l’esthétique, la métaphysique, la connaissance symbolique, les mathématiques.

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