Author: Cardinal Nicholas (of Cusa)Publisher: Editorial Edinumen
ISBN: 9780919473560
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
The Layman on Wisdom and the Mind
Author: Cardinal Nicholas (of Cusa)Publisher: Editorial Edinumen
ISBN: 9780919473560
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Passion of the Western Mind
Author: Richard TarnasPublisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307804526
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
"[This] magnificent critical survey, with its inherent respect for both the 'Westt's mainstream high culture' and the 'radically changing world' of the 1990s, offers a new breakthrough for lay and scholarly readers alike....Allows readers to grasp the big picture of Western culture for the first time." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Here are the great minds of Western civilization and their pivotal ideas, from Plato to Hegel, from Augustine to Nietzsche, from Copernicus to Freud. Richard Tarnas performs the near-miracle of describing profound philosophical concepts simply but without simplifying them. Ten years in the making and already hailed as a classic, THE PASSION OF THE WESERN MIND is truly a complete liberal education in a single volume.
Introducing Nicholas of Cusa
Author: Bellitto, Christopher M.Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 161643368X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
A primer on the the vocabulary, ideas, and works of this leading Renaissance thinker of the fifteenth century who wrote on everything from papal politics to astronomy to interreligious dialogue.
How to Master the English Bible
Author: James Martin GrayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Pull Of History, The: Human Understanding Of Magnetism And Gravity Through The Ages
Author: Yoshitaka YamamotoPublisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9813223782
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 979
Book Description
This book seeks to understand what bring to pass the birth of modern physics by focusing upon the formation of the concept of force. This would be the first book to note the important role magnetism has played in this process. Indeed, the force between celestial bodies, before the introduction of the Isaac Newtonian gravitational force, is first introduced by Johannes Kepler by analogy with the magnetic force. Moreover, this book, by concentrating our attention on the magnetism, fully describes the developments and the recognition of the force concept during the Middle Ages. The detailed description of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance is a strong point of this book. By discussing and emphasizing on the role accomplished by the magnetic force, this book makes clear the connection between the natural magic and the modern experimental physics. This book will open up a new aspect of the birth of modern physics.
Reading Cusanus
Author: Clyde Lee MillerPublisher: Catholic University of America Press
ISBN: 0813232120
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
This book presents careful readings of six of the most important theoretical works of Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1463). Though Nicholas' writings have long been studied as either scholastic Aristotelian or proto-Kantian, Clyde Lee Miller locates Cusanus squarely in the Christian Neoplatonic tradition. He demonstrates how Nicholas worked out his own original synthesis of that tradition by fashioning a conjectural view of main categories of Christian thought: God, the universe, Jesus Christ, and human beings. Each of the readings reveals how Nicholas' project of "learned ignorance" is played out in striking metaphors for God and the relation of God to creation.
Truth in the Making
Author: Robert C. MinerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135646430
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Is knowing a purely passive reception of something concrete outside the mind, or when we know something, are we creating something too? Spanning more than 500 years of philosophical enquiry from the Middle Ages to the present day, Robert Miner clarifies modern philosophical conceptions of knowing as making or constructing, and contrasts this view with the theological understanding of knowing as a participation in divine creation. This study demonstrates how 'creative knowledge' has its roots in the theologies of Thomas Aquinas and Nicholas Cusanus. It explores the multiple ways in which this idea influenced the architects of modern philosophy, most notably Francis Bacon, René Descartes and Thomas Hobbes, despite their secular stance. Miner contends that, well in advance of Kant, one of these thinkers, Gaimbattista Vico provided a remarkably succinct formulation of the metaphysical and epistemological core of modernity in his principle verum et factum convertuntur: 'the true and the made are convertible'. In Truth in the Making, Robert Miner challenges the standard assumption that Kant was the first thinker to conceive of knowing as constructive activity, and shows how contemporary theology can reclaim a concept of knowing that is both creative and participant in divine wisdom.
Layman's introduction to philosophy and life
Author: Bikrama Nand BahugunaPublisher: Mittal Publications
ISBN: 9788183241953
Category : Life
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The Layman's New Testament
Author: Father Hugh PopePublisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434411095
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 944
Book Description
An annotated text of the Catholic version of the New Testament intended as "a companion to the New Testament which shall bring it into touch with the church's doctrine."
Author: Henry Fitz