Encountering Others Understanding Ourselves In Medieval And Early Modern Thought
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Author | : Nicolas Faucher |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 395 |
Release | : 2022-12-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3110748932 |
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Recent research has challenged our view of the Abrahamic religious traditions as unilaterally intolerant and incapable of recognizing otherness in all its diversity and richness; but a diachronic and comparative study of how these traditions deal with otherness is yet to appear. This volume aims to contribute to such a study by presenting different treatments of otherness in medieval and early modern thought. Part I: Altruism deals with attitudes and behaviors that benefit others, regardless of its motives. We deal with the social rights and emotions as well as the moral obligations that the very existence of other human beings, whatever their characteristics, creates for a community. Part II: Religious recognition and toleration considers identity, toleration and mutual recognition created by the existence of religious or ethnic otherness in a given social, religious or political community. Part III: Evil deals with religious otherness that is considered evil and rejected such as heretics and malevolent, demonic entities. The volume will ultimately inform the reader on the nature of religious toleration (including beliefs and doctrines, even emotions) as well as of the self-definition of religious communities when encountering and defining otherness in different ways.
Author | : Heikki Haara |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Common good |
ISBN | : 3031553047 |
Download Common Good and Self-Interest in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Zusammenfassung: This open access volume provides an in-depth analysis of philosophical discussions concerning the common good and its relation to self-interest in the history of Western philosophy. The thirteen chapters explore both renowned and lesser-known thinkers from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century, covering also the relevant ancient background. By bridging the gap between the medieval and early modern periods, they provide fresh insights into how moral and political philosophers understood the concepts of the common good and self-interest, along with their ethical and political implications. The concept of the common good occupies a central role in philosophical reflections on the public and private dimensions of moral and social life in contemporary debates. By exploring the rich and diverse ways in which the relationship between the common good and self-interest has been understood, this volume has the potential to contribute to our ongoing efforts to critically discern the possibilities and limitations of these concepts in the present. Thus, the volume will be useful for scholars interested in the multi-layered role of the notion of the common good both in the history of philosophy and in contemporary moral and political philosophy
Author | : Alain -G. Gagnon |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 2024-04-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1800374127 |
Download Advanced Introduction to Federalism Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This timely Advanced Introduction explores federalism as a subject of intellectual inquiry, discussion and debate. Alain-G. Gagnon and Arjun Tremblay examine the role federalism can play in achieving fairness, justice and equality, as well as the impact it can have on the survival of political systems.
Author | : Anik Waldow |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2020-01-02 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0190086130 |
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Anik Waldow develops an account of embodied experience that extends from Descartes' conception of the human body as firmly integrated into the causal play of nature, to Kant's understanding of anthropology as a discipline that provides us with guidance in our lives as embodied creatures. Waldow defends the claim that during the early modern period, the debate on experience not only focused on questions arising from the subjectivity of our thinking and feeling, it also foregrounded the essentially embodied dimension of our lives as humans. By taking this approach, Waldow departs from the traditional epistemological route dominant in treatments of early-modern conceptions of experience. She makes the case that reflections on experience took center stage in a debate that was moral in nature, because it raised questions about the developmental potential of human beings and their capacity to instantiate the principles of self-determined agency in their lives. These questions emerged for many early modern authors since they understood that the fact that humans are embodied entailed that they are similarly responsive and causally-determined like other non-human animals. While this perspective made it possible to acknowledge that humans are part of the causal dynamics of nature, it called into question their ability to act in accordance with the principles of free, rational agency. Experience Embodied reveals how early modern authors responded to this challenge, offering a new perspective on the centrality of the concept of experience in comprehending the uniquely human place in nature.
Author | : Dallas G. Denery II |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2005-04-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521827843 |
Download Seeing and Being Seen in the Later Medieval World Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
During the later Middle Ages people became increasingly obsessed with vision, visual analogies and the possibility of visual error. In this book Dallas Denery addresses the question of what medieval men and women thought it meant to see themselves and others in relation to the world and to God. Exploring the writings of Roger Bacon, Duns Scotus, Peter Aureol and Nicholas of Autrecourt in light of an assortment of popular religious guides for preachers, confessors and penitents, including Peter of Limoges' Treatise on the Moral Eye, he illustrates how the question preoccupied medieval men and women on both an intellectual and practical level. This book offers a unique interdisciplinary examination of the interplay between religious life, perspectivist optics and theology. Denery presents significant new insights into the medieval psyche and conception of the self, ensuring that this book will appeal to historians of medieval science and those of medieval religious life and theology.
Author | : Franz-Josef Arlinghaus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9782503552897 |
Download Forms of Individuality and Literacy in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Through case studies of a broad variety of medieval and early modern sources, this volume discusses whether the roots of modern notions of individuality can be found in pre-modern Europe. Individuality is one of the central categories of modern society. Can the roots of modern individuality be found in pre-modern times? Or is our way of thinking about ourselves a very recent phenomenon? This book takes a theoretical approach to the problem, derived from Niklas Luhmanns system theory, in which different forms of individuality are linked to different structures of society in modern and pre-modern times. The papers in this volume approach this problem by discussing a broad variety of medieval and early modern sources, including charters and seals, letters, and naming-practices in a late medieval town. Self-representation is also considered, in housebooks and drawings. Textual studies include autobiography in German Humanism, and concepts of individuality and gender in late medieval literary texts
Author | : Udo Thiel |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-03 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780198704409 |
Download The Early Modern Subject Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Udo Thiel presents a critical evaluation of the understanding of self-consciousness and personal identity in early modern philosophy. He explores over a century of European philosophical debate from Descartes to Hume, and argues that our interest in human subjectivity remains strongly influenced by the conceptual framework of early modern thought.
Author | : Gordon Leff |
Publisher | : HarperCollins Publishers |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download The Dissolution of the Medieval Outlook Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The purpose of this book is expressed in its title. It is an essay, an attempt to explore the ways in which the medieval outlook on the world was changing and giving place to the fourteenth century to new consessions that were ultimately to bring its supersession. It is not a survey, still less a textbook, but rather a delineation of what seem to me to have been the areas of fundamental change. It is, therefore, one individual's interpretation, much though it owes to others.
Author | : Lisa T. Sarasohn |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2021-09-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1421441381 |
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"Vermin are not only pestering; they shape the way people look at each other and are a way that some people get to feel superior to others"--
Author | : Louis Lohr Martz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1954 |
Genre | : Christian poetry, English |
ISBN | : |
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