History Of Ancient & Medieval Lecture notes for a course taught by Dr. Charles Ess at Drury University. http://www.drury.edu/ess/History/Ancient/Overview.html
Extractions: Dr. Ess Spring, 1997 Available as web pages: materials on The PreSocratic Philosophers (ca. 600 B.C.E. through the post-Parmenidean systems, including Democritus, ca. 450 B.C.E) a summary of the Socratic and Platonic project to "save philosophy" from the apparent dilemma of rationalism leading to ethical relativism, the pursuit of tyranny, and anarchy - and the temptation to return to the stability of old religion and dogmatic beliefs. a study/writing guide on Aristotle and Post-Aristotelian philosophies a Summary of Post-Aristotelian Philosophies - focusing on Epicureanism, Stoicism, and Skepticism as philosophical responses to the collapse of the Greek City-State and the emergence of Empire. This moment serves as the transition phase into early Christianity. Notes on the Rise of Christianity - an outline of comments, stress points, and a link to more materials on early Christianity's conjunction of prophetic and apocalyptic beliefs. Notes on Augustine - including cross-links to materials on prophetic and apocalyptic beliefs, and to materials on modernity and postmodernity. Early Medieval Philosophy - first writing assignment. Provides an overview of topics we'll cover in Augustine, Avicenna, Averroes, and Maimonides.
Jacques Maritain Center: St. Thomas Aquinas And Medieval Philosophy Thomas Aquinas and medieval philosophy. The Encyclopedia Press, Inc. 23 East FortyFirst Street. New York. 1919. Chapter I The Rise of Scholasticism St. Anselm (1034-1109) Scholasticism. What Scholasticism is not. What is philosophy? http://www.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/etext/staamp0.htm
Extractions: This text is known in English as On the Harmony of Religions and Philosophy , in Arabic Kitab fasl al-maqal , with its appendix ( Damina ). Also appended is an extract from Kitab al-kashf`an manahij al-adilla Contents Introduction Problem First: the Creation of the Universe Problem Second: The Advent of the Prophets Problem Third: Of Fate And Predestination ... Problem Fifth: The Day of Judgment Introduction Hence, for a believer in the Law and a follower of it, it is necessary to know these things before he begins to look into creation, for they are like instruments for observation. For, just as a student discovers by the study of the law, the necessity of knowledge of legal reasoning with all its kinds and distinctions, a student will find out by observing the creation the necessity of metaphysical reasoning. Indeed, he has a greater claim on it than the jurist. For if a jurist argues the necessity of legal reasoning from the saying of God: "Wherefore take example from them O you who have eyes" [Qur'an 59.2], a student of divinity has a better right to establish the same from it on behalf of metaphysical reasoning.
NetSERF: Philosophy NetSERF Features. medieval Glossary. PDA Version These topics are crossreferenced. medieval philosophy A select bibliography http://www.netserf.org/Philosophy
Medieval Philosophy Teaching Materials on medieval philosophy. John Kilcullen. Download 1. Download 2. Courses (no longer offered). Course description, medieval philosophy. http://www.humanities.mq.edu.au/Ockham/medph.html
Extractions: Teaching Materials on Medieval Philosophy John Kilcullen Download 1 Download 2 Courses (no longer offered) Course description, Medieval Philosophy Course description, Later Medieval Philosophy Website for Sydney University Course The Medieval Intellectual Tradition Medieval Philosophy: An Introduction
Web Project Removal Notice the Ancient and medieval Internet (argos.evansville.edu) Hippias Limited Area Search of philosophy on the Internet http://argos.evansville.edu/
Extractions: Web Project Removal Notice The following Internet search engines have been taken offline due to a lack of resources needed to keep them running and up to date. The plans to re-release Noesis and Hippias in a new, consolidated form have been indefinitely suspended. For more information, please send email to Anthony Beavers at tb2@evansville.edu
Medieval Theories Of Analogy Entry in the Stanford Encyclopaedia of philosophy, by E. Jennifer Ashworth. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/analogy-medieval/
Extractions: NOV per prius et posterius ). A third type of analogy, sometimes appealed to by theologians, appealed to a relation of likeness between God and creatures. Creatures are called good or just because their goodness or justice imitates or reflects the goodness or justice of God. This type of analogy was called the analogy of imitation or participation. Of the three types, it is the analogy of attribution that is central to medieval discussions. From the fourteenth century on discussions of analogy focused not so much on linguistic usages as on the nature of the concepts that corresponded to the words used. Is there just one concept that corresponds to an analogical term, or is there a sequence of concepts? If the latter, how are the members of the sequence ordered and related to each other? Moreover, how far should we distinguish between so-called formal concepts (or acts of mind) and objective concepts (whatever it is that is the object of the act of understanding)? These discussions were still influential at the time of Descartes. 1. Medieval Theories of Language
Medieval Philosophy At Erratic Impact's Philosophy Research Base medieval philosophy at Erratic Impact's philosophy Research Base. Resources include thousands of annotated links and text resources for medieval philosophy research on the internet. in the field http://www.erraticimpact.com/~medieval
Extractions: Site Index Texts: Medieval Philosophy Book Series: Medieval Philosophy Used Books: Medieval Philosophy Know of a Resource? This website features hundreds of annotated links and text resources for students and teachers in the field of Medieval and Christian Philosophy. The Medieval Philosophy Web serves as a study and research guide for all those interested in Medieval Texts. Important Medieval Thinkers: Anselm Aquinas Augustine Boethius ... William of Ockham Medieval Women: Catherine of Siena Hildegard of Bingen Women of the Middle Ages Major Figures: Aquinas Augustine Jesus And Paul Plotinus History of Medieval Philosophy: Church Fathers: Clement of Alexandria Justin Martyr Origen Tertullian Early Medieval: Anselm Augustine Boethius Hildegard of Bingen ... Psuedo-Dionysius High Medieval: Aquinas Bonaventure Moses Maimonides Robert Grosseteste ... Siger of Brabant Late Medieval:
Philofreligion Resources in the analytic philosophical tradition, including religious epistemology, theistic arguments, medieval philosophy, and teaching resources and discussion groups. http://www.homestead.com/philofreligion/
History Of Ideas: Medieval Philosophy University. lecture on medieval philosophy (thumbnails of multimedia slides). If you cannot read the text on these slides, click here. http://www.dcu.ie/~comms/philosophy/medieval.htm
Week 11: Medieval Elements In Descartes Part of lecture notes to a course on Later medieval philosophy by John Kilcullen at Macquarie University. http://www.humanities.mq.edu.au/Ockham/z3611.html
Extractions: This is cassette 11, concerned with the medieval elements in Descartes Meditations The Meditations , outlining the argument and drawing attention to the medieval material. The Meditations was first published in 1641, in Latin; it was translated into French by someone else, and the French edition appeared some years later with Descartes' approval. Notice that the most authentic text is the Latin edition. Before publication Descartes arranged for copies of his little book to be circulated to some well-known philosophers and theologians in Paris. They wrote objections, and he wrote replies. The objections and replies formed volume 2 of the Meditations . The objectors included Thomas Hobbes, Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Gassendi. In the "Dedication" of the work (it is dedicated to the members of the faculty of theology in Paris), Descartes says why he wrote the book. I quote from the translation of Haldane and Ross: I have always considered that the two questions respecting God and the Soul were the chief of those that ought to be demonstrated by philosophical rather than theological argument
NINO B. COCCHIARELLA Abstract of an article by Cocchiarella published in volume 4 of Logical Analysis and History of philosophy. http://www.pla.uni-bonn.de/EnglishPages/Schaufenster/Volume4Frames/NINOB.COCCHIA
Literary Forms Of Medieval Philosophy last substantive content change OCT 17 2002. Literary Forms of medieval philosophy. 5. Development in the Literary form of medieval philosophy. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/medieval-literary/
Extractions: OCT Medieval philosophical texts are written in a variety of literary forms, many peculiar to the period, like the summa or disputed question; others, like the commentary, dialogue, and axiom, are also found in ancient and modern sources but are substantially different in the medieval period from their classical or modern incarnations. Many philosophical texts also have a highly polemical style and/or seem deferential to the authoritative sources they cite. Further, medieval philosophical thinkers operated under the threat of censure from political and religious authority, moving them, some have argued, to write esoterically or to otherwise protect themselves from persecution. All these literary and rhetorical features make medieval philosophical texts considerably more difficult to understand and interpret than modern or even classical philosophical texts. Moreover, the broad range of genre in medieval philosophy raises questions about the nature of philosophical writing in general when compared to the much more restricted set of accepted forms in modern and contemporary philosophical works. 1. Historical Sources
LA MORRA - Ensemble For Late Medieval Music Rediscover variety of late medieval music with ensemble La Morra. Concert programs, recordings, and philosophy. http://www.lamorra.info/
Extractions: Michal Gondko and Corina Marti directors This web site contains official information about the Ensemble LA MORRA, its concert programs, philosophy and more. Visitors are welcome to listen to the sound samples of our performances under 'Jardin de Plaisance' section as well as to check out the most up-to-date news about the activities of LA MORRA (located under the news section). The site of LA MORRA is available in ENGLISH DEUTSCH ITALIANO contact@lamorra.info Enabling JavaScript and Frames required If not all frames were loaded, click Refresh or Reload button of your browser.
History Of Philosophy 29 Short footnoted article on this medieval thinker and his place in history, summarizing four points of his doctrine. http://www.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/etext/hop29.htm
Extractions: ROSCELIN Life Novi Lycaei Conditor . He died about 1100. Sources . It appears that Roscelin did not commit his doctrines to writing, contenting himself with promulgating and defending them orally. There has come down to us, however, a letter addressed by him to Abelard dealing chiefly with Roscelin's Trinitarian doctrine. Apart from this document we have no sources of information except the statements of Anselm, Abelard , and John of Salisbury , who were Roscelin's opponents. Monograph: M. Picavet, Roscelin d'apres la legende et d'apres l'histoire (Paris, 1896). DOCTRINES From the sources mentioned in the preceding paragraph we derive the following points of doctrine: 1. Roscelin taught that universals are mere flatus vocis. Anselm says: "Illi utique nostri temporis dialectici, imo dialectice haeretici, qui nonnisi flatum vocis putant universales substantias. . . ." John of Salisbury refers the same opinion to Roscelin by name: "Alius ergo, consistit in vocibus, licet haec opinio cum Rucelino suo omnino jam evanuerit." From these passages we infer that Roscelin was a nominalist, although the expression
Karaism Article by Dr. Daniel Frank on the relationship between medieval Karaite philosophy and the Muslim kalaam. http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/ip/rep/J052.htm
Extractions: The Karaites ( qara'im , or benei miqra ) take their name from the Hebrew word for Scripture. The sect's scripturalism originated in its rejection of the 'Oral Law' embodied in rabbinic literature. Like earlier scripturalist groups - notably the Sadducees - Karaites sought to derive their practices directly from the biblical text. While Karaism is usually traced to mid-eighth-century Iraq, the early history remains murky. The sect crystallized in the Islamic East during the late ninth and early tenth centuries, calling forth stern reactions from the leaders of mainstream rabbinic Judaism. Although harsh at times, the ensuing polemics stimulated both Karaite and Rabbanite scholarship in the fields of biblical exegesis, Hebrew grammar and lexicography, jurisprudence and religious philosophy. The two groups differed sharply over points of law and practice - the calendar, dietary laws, Sabbath regulations - but typically concurred on questions of theology. The Mu'tazilite phase The post-Maimonidean phase Early medieval Jewish thinkers of both Rabbanite and Karaite persuasion found the kalam (speculative theology) of the Muslim rationalistic school known as the Mu'tazila congenial to their outlook and adopted many Mu'tazilite ideas (see Ash'ariyya and Mu'tazila ). The Mu'tazilites' uncompromising definitions of God's unity and justice inform the writings of leading Rabbanites like
James Luberda Essays by James Luberda on literary theory, composition, medieval studies, and the philosophy of mind. http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~jbl00001
Extractions: This site provides the current research and course materials of James Luberda of the University of Connecticut. If you have an interest in cognitive science , especially if in conjunction with literature and composition, you may find some useful information collected here. Other topics addressed reflect personal interests and study in literary theory, philosophy, composition theory, and medieval studies. I am presently developing a composition textbook with a distinctly cognitive science bent. The preface and first two chapters are available for review and use here. James Luberda Various cheap books resources: www.labyrinthbooks.com
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