The Cambridge Companion to Augustine

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Author: David Vincent Meconi

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-06-05

Total Pages: 405

ISBN-13: 1107025338

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This second edition of the Companion has been thoroughly revised and updated with eleven new chapters and a new bibliography.

The Cambridge Companion to Augustine

The Cambridge Companion to Augustine PDF

Author: David Vincent Meconi

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-06-05

Total Pages: 405

ISBN-13: 113999218X

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It has been over a decade since the first edition of The Cambridge Companion to Augustine was published. In that time, reflection on Augustine's life and labors has continued to bear much fruit: significant new studies into major aspects of his thinking have appeared, as well as studies of his life and times and new translations of his work. This new edition of the Companion, which replaces the earlier volume, has eleven new chapters, revised versions of others, and a comprehensive updated bibliography. It will furnish students and scholars of Augustine with a rich resource on a philosopher whose work continues to inspire discussion and debate.

The Cambridge Companion to Aquinas

The Cambridge Companion to Aquinas PDF

Author: Norman Kretzmann

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1993-05-28

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1139825097

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Among the great philosophers of the Middle Ages Aquinas is unique in pursuing two apparently disparate projects. On the one hand he developed a philosophical understanding of Christian doctrine in a fully integrated system encompassing all natural and supernatural reality. On the other hand, he was convinced that Aristotle's philosophy afforded the best available philosophical component of such a system. In a relatively brief career Aquinas developed these projects in great detail and with an astonishing degree of success. In this volume ten leading scholars introduce all the important aspects of Aquinas' thought, ranging from its historical background and dependence on Greek, Islamic, and Jewish philosophy and theology, through the metaphysics, epistemology and ethics, to the philosophical approach to Biblical commentary.

The Cambridge Companion to Abelard

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Author: Jeffrey E. Brower

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-03-18

Total Pages: 552

ISBN-13: 1139826301

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Peter Abelard (1079–1142) is one of the greatest philosophers of the medieval period. Although best known for his views about universals and his dramatic love affair with Heloise, he made a number of important contributions in metaphysics, logic, philosophy of language, mind and cognition, philosophical theology, ethics, and literature. The essays in this volume survey the entire range of Abelard's thought, and examine his overall achievement in its intellectual and historical context. They also trace Abelard's influence on later thought and his relevance to philosophical debates today.

A Companion to Augustine

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Author: Mark Vessey

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-05-08

Total Pages: 638

ISBN-13: 1118255437

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A Companion to Augustine presents a fresh collection of scholarship by leading academics with a new approach to contextualizing Augustine and his works within the multi-disciplinary field of Late Antiquity, showing Augustine as both a product of the cultural forces of his times and a cultural force in his own right. Discusses the life and works of Augustine within their full historical context, rather than privileging the theological context Presents Augustine’s life, works and leading ideas in the cultural context of the late Roman world, providing a vibrant and engaging sense of Augustine in action in his own time and place Opens up a new phase of study on Augustine, sensitive to the many and varied perspectives of scholarship on late Roman culture State-of-the-art essays by leading academics in this field

The Cambridge Companion to Plotinus

The Cambridge Companion to Plotinus PDF

Author: Lloyd P. Gerson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1996-08-13

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 1139825259

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Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and non-specialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation such readers often feel when faced with the work of a difficult and challenging thinker. Plotinus was the greatest philosopher in the 700-year period between Aristotle and Augustine. He thought of himself as a disciple of Plato, but in his efforts to defend Platonism against Aristotelians, Stoics, and others, he actually produced a reinvigorated version of Platonism that later came to be known as 'Neoplatonism'. In this volume, sixteen leading scholars introduce and explain the many facets of Plotinus' complex system. They place Plotinus in the history of ancient philosophy while showing that he was a founder of medieval philosophy.

The Cambridge Companion to William James

The Cambridge Companion to William James PDF

Author: Ruth Anna Putnam

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1997-04-13

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 1139825194

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William James (1842–1910) was both a philosopher and a psychologist, nowadays most closely associated with the pragmatic theory of truth. The essays in this Companion deal with the full range of his thought as well as other issues, including technical philosophical issues, religious speculation, moral philosophy and political controversies of his time. The relationship between James and other philosophers of his time, as well as his brother Henry, are also examined. By placing James in his intellectual landscape the volume will be particularly useful to teachers and students outside philosophy in such areas as religious studies, history of ideas, and American studies. New readers and nonspecialists will find this the most convenient and accessible guide to James currently available. Advanced students and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of James.