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Logic --- Philosophy --- Early works to 1800 --- Terminology
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In this new translation of Gersonides' Commentary on Song of Songs, Menachem Kellner brings to English-language readers a work that draws together many important elements of Gersonides' thought: philosophical theology, philosophy of science, biblical exegesis, and Aristotle/Averroës commentary. (...) Gersonides' philosophical commentary on Song of Songs reveals his belief that this poem is the only book in the Bible written to teach the ultimate truths of the universe to the elite while being of no outward benefit to the masses.
Bible. --- Commentaries --- Early works to 1800.
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Islamic law judges; biographies; early works to 1800; critical edition.
Judges (Islamic law) --- Biography --- Early works to 1800. --- Judges --- Early works to 1800
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Magic --- Metaphysics --- Early works to 1800. --- Early works to 1800 --- Arts and Humanities --- Philosophy
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L'enthousiasme des premiers lecteurs a fait de la "Légende des saints" de Jacques de Voragine la "Légende dorée", c'est-à-dire la légende d'or : celle de toutes les histoires et légendes qui entourent la vie et la mort exemplaires des saints chrétiens du premier millénaire après le Christ et des débuts du Moyen Âge. Sans souci de critique historique, l'auteur a récolté les faits épars dans une foule d'écrits, de chroniques et de biographies dispersés. En réalité, ces légendes ne sont pas écrites pour raconter "ce qui s'est vraiment passé", mais pour édifier, par l'exemple magnifique des saints, de leurs paroles de feu et de leurs miracles plus étonnants les uns que les autres, ceux qui veulent marcher à la suite du Christ. Aujourd'hui, la "Légende dorée" est aussi une extraordinaire "anthologie" naïve, riche d'histoire et de culture finalement, car bien entendu ces légendes ont inspiré très souvent les artistes chrétiens, peintres et autres.
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Science --- Philosophy --- Hawks --- -Philosophy --- -Science --- -Natural science --- Science of science --- Sciences --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Accipitridae --- Early works to 1800 --- -Early works to 1800 --- Science - Early works to 1800 --- Philosophy - Early works to 1800 --- Hawks - Early works to 1800
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This second volume of Oeuvres philosophiques et scientifiques d'al-Kindī deals with the first metaphysical and cosmological writings in Islamic philosophy. It contains a new critical edition and French translation of six treatises due to al-Kindī, all devoted to these matters. It also contains fragments quoted by the Philosopher's successors. All those writings, rigorously edited and translated, brought together point out the true conception of philosophy of al-Kindī, philosopher and mathematician.
Optics --- Islamic philosophy --- Optique --- Philosophie islamique --- Early works to 1800. --- Ouvrages avant 1800 --- Philosophy, Islamic --- Optics - Early works to 1800 --- Islamic philosophy - Early works to 1800 --- Optics - Early works to 1800. --- Philosophy, Islamic - Early works to 1800. --- Metaphysics
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Painting --- Perspective --- Painting, Italian --- Peinture italienne --- Early works to 1800. --- Ouvrages avant 1800 --- Piero, --- Early works to 1800 --- Perspective - Early works to 1800