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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"medieval philosophy"”.
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Sensory perception, religious ritual, and reformation in Germany, 1428-1564
… on understandings of perception drawn from late medieval philosophy and everyday practices. The early Protestant Reformation in sixteenth century Germany re-formulated this paradigm by shifting emphasis to the role of vision and hearing in normative ritual practice. While understandings and uses …
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In the Wake of Abelard: Nominalisms in the Twelfth Century
… the problem of universals in our discussions of medieval philosophy and thus is not focused on examining arguments defending nominalism on metaphysical grounds. Rather, it explores avenues of discussion beyond the rather narrow bounds of the problem of universals itself. Three texts are examined …
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The Self, the Church, and Medieval Identities: The Evolution of the Individual in Medieval Literature
… the construction of literary identities by medieval women, recognizable as an authorial voice that is distinct from those of her contemporaries yet congruent with the gender norms and expectations of her contemporary culture, in both religious and secular literatures from late antiquity …
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Light in the Cave: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Nature of Suhrawardī’s Illuminationist Philosophy
… seems that no reconstructions of Illuminationist philosophy are satisfactory. I propose a Cave Story approach, which relates Suhrawardī’s ambitious Illuminationist project to Plato’s cave allegory. By following this approach, I present a historical reconstruction of Suhrawardī’s Illuminationist …
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Thomas Aquinas on the Nature of Singular Thought
In his account of the intellectual cognition of singulars, Aquinas claims that the intellect cognizes singulars by way of mental images. Some recent commentators have claimed that Aquinas' appeal to mental images is inadequate to account for the intellectual cognition of singulars because mental …
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Anselm on Semantics, Modality and Free Will
Anselm is the outstanding Christian Latin philosopher and theologian of the eleventh century. However, Anselm’s philosophical thought has rarely been seen as a whole. The interrelation between Anselm’s core philosophical theories and their coherence has yet to receive proper attention. My thesis …
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Thomas Aquinas, the real distinction between esse and essence, and overcoming the conceptual imperialism
… the relation between thought and being within medieval metaphysics, especially as it relates to the distinction between essence and existence. The dissertation argues against a prominent strand of distinction between whatness (i.e., essence) and thatness (i.e., existence) constitutes a rupture …
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Collapse Into Silence: Denys the Areopagite as the Key Source of Richard of St. Victor
… of contemplation based on Pseudo-Dionysius’ philosophy, which can be seen in his text the Benjamin major. In order to render the path these texts took over the centuries, the dissertation describes, first, Pseudo-Dionysius’ philosophy and his Neoplatonic inheritance, especially focusing on …
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Freedom and Plenitude in Medieval Arguments for the Existence of God
… middle ages. It traces this story by analysing medieval arguments for the existence of God in Hebrew, Latin and Arabic. Each of these arguments is underpinned by a particular scientific worldview. The premises of the arguments express scientific views about the way things are, either physically …
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Redemption through Sexual Renunciation: A Study of Male Purity in Medieval Literature
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