Västerländsk filosofi: medeltiden & renässansen ca 500 - ca 1600

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Antiken Medeltiden Renässansen är epoker som i mycket utgör grundvalen för all senare filosofi. Läsningen av den grekiska filosofins klassiker är en utmärkt introduktion till filosofiska studier - de filosofiska problemen och teorierna har i denna...

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Michel de Montaigne (15331592) betraktas som en av renässansens viktigaste filosofer. Han föddes i en familj bestående av jurister och handelsmän, och kom som vuxen att tjänstgöra vid domstolen i Bordeaux. 1580 utkom den första versionen av Essaye...

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Med Essayer skapade Michel de Montaigne (15331592) inte bara en ny prosagenre, utan odlade även en för sin tid unik stil, som skickligt anpassats till svenskan av Jan Stolpe. Genom personliga anekdoter understryker Montaigne texternas subjektivite...

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1588 publicerade Michel de Montaigne del tre av Essayer. Det unika tilltal som präglar Bok I och II hade då gått in en ny fas, som präglas av kritisk reflektion och tillbakablickande. Montaignes ordlekar och metaforer har mognat, och det förekomme...

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Hur hade någon som jag kunnat gestalta sitt liv? En kvinna som inte vill fastna i konventioner och som vill ha en egen relation till de stora frågorna: vad det är att vara människa och hur vi kan förhålla oss till sanning, vara och liv? Filosofen ...

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This book is a detailed introduction to and discussion of Thomas Aquinas's best-known and most influential work: the Summa Theologiae. After a scholarly account of Aquinas's life, the book explores his purposes in writing the Summa Theologiae and ...

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The instant Sunday Times bestseller A Times, New Statesman and Spectator Book of the Year 'Simply the best popular history of the Middle Ages there is' Sunday Times 'A great achievement, pulling together many strands with aplomb&apo...

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Cabala del cavallo pegaseo tillhör Brunos italienska filosofiska dialoger och publicerades ursprungligen 1585. Det är en av Brunos mest gåtfulla och vackra texter, som kombinerar flera av hans grundläggande filosofiska teman med en rikt utvecklad ...

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Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly responsible for popularising the essay as a literary form. This Penguin Classics edition of The Complete Essays is translated from the French and edited...

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Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek scholar. When he became involved in a conspiracy and was imprisoned in Pavia, it was to the Greek philosophers that he turned. THE CONSOLATION was w...

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City of God is an enduringly significant work in the history of Christian thought, by one of its central figures Written as an eloquent defence of the faith at a time when the Roman Empire was on the brink of collapse, this great theological and p...

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"You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts." ¿ Kahlil Gibran, The ProphetExperience the timeless wisdom and profound beauty of Kahlil Gibran's masterpiece, The Prophet, in this special edition with illustrations from the ...

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The Miracle of Death takes you on a personal journey that will forever change the way you think about death and life.  Over a period of years Betty Kovacs, her husband and their son experienced dreams and visions of future events that complet...

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Sir Anthony Kenny presents a fascinating and authoritative new history of Western philosophy. Specially written for a broad popular readership, Kenny's lucid and stimulating history will become the definitive work for anyone interested in the peop...

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Den engelske statsmannen och filosofen Francis Bacons (1561-1626) idéhistoriska berättelse Det nya Atlantis från 1627 i nyutgåva med inledning av Tore Frängsmyr. På ön Bensalem påträffar en grupp sjöfarare en underlig civilisation. Boken är nummer...

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Filosofi i medeltidens värld är fjärde delen i Peter Adamson bokserie En filosofihistoria utan luckor . Medeltiden har ofta behandlats som en dunkel parentes i filosofins historia, men Peter Adamson visar att den är en lång och innehållsrik period...

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1570 säger Michel de Montaigne upp sitt jobb som jurist i Bordeaux. Han är 38 år och han har kommit fram till att det är dags att dra sig tillbaka till sitt gods utanför staden. I ett av godsets tornrum placerar han sitt skrivbord och sitt bibliot...

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"You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts." ¿ Kahlil Gibran, The ProphetExperience the timeless wisdom and profound beauty of Kahlil Gibran's masterpiece, The Prophet, in this special edition with illustrations from the ...

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Celebrating the fortieth anniversary of this seminal book, this new edition includes an illuminating foreword by Carlos Eire and Ronald K. Rittges The seeds of the swift and sweeping religious movement that reshaped European thought in the 1500s w...

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TABLE OF CONTENTS: Translator's Introduction Introduction by Genevieve Rodis-Lewis The Passions of the Soul: Preface PART I: About the Passions in General, and Incidentally about the Entire Nature of Man PART II: About the Number and Order of...

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The French author Michel de Montaigne is widely regarded as the founder and greatest practitioner of the personal essay. His extraordinary curiosity and discernment, combined with his ability to mix thoughtful judgment with revealing anecdote, mak...

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`For I do not seek to understand so that I may believe; but I believe so that I may understand. For I believe this also, that unless I believe, I shall not understand.' Does God exist? Can we know anything about God's nature? Have we any reason to...

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From the early Dark Ages to the Renaissance it was widely believed that the language spoken in the Garden of Eden was a perfect language, expressing all possible things, and that all current languages were its decadent descendants. This is an inve...

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There is but one form of human enslavement more villainous and more detestable than the chains of the tyrant or the shackles of the despot, and that is the enslavement of the human mind under ecclesiastical tyranny, whose cowering and crouching vi...

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Although hardly known in the modern era, the Glossa Ordinaria was the most popular and influential biblical commentary of the Middle Ages, surviving in thousands of manuscripts and referenced constantly by Thomas Aquinas, Bonaventure, and other me...

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Peter Adamson explores the rich intellectual history of the Byzantine Empire and the Italian Renaissance in this engaging book.

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A historical and systematic introduction to what the medieval philosopher and theologian Thomas Aquinas wrote about the Trinity. By focusing on the thought of one of the greatest defenders of the doctrine of the Trinity, Gilles Emery OP elucidates...

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A beautifully illustrated history of the Renaissance told through the lives of its most important and influential patrons. 'Exceptionally sumptuous... This vivid history brings to life the vices and virtues of the feuding ruling families of I...

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Peter Adamson presents an engaging and wide-ranging introduction to two great intellectual cultures: Byzantium and the Italian Renaissance. First he tells the story of philosophy in the Eastern Christian world, from the 8th century to the 15th cen...

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