Boethius On Mind Grammar And Logic

Author : Taki Suto
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004216044

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Boethius on Mind, Grammar and Logic by Taki Suto Pdf

Boethius (c.480-c.525/6), who is best known for his Consolation of Philosophy, has been accused of misinterpreting Aristotle’s logical works in his translations and commentaries thereof. Building on recent scholarship in the philosophy of late antiquity, this book challenges some of the past interpretations of Boethius and reveals significant features of his semantics and logic. With comparisons between his and contemporary arguments and attention to the terminology of late antiquity, this work is of use to those interested in semantics, logic and grammar from antiquity to the modern day. Furthermore, this book’s new conclusions aim to reinvigorate interest in this much-maligned and poorly understood philosopher.

Author : John Magee
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004320741

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Boethius on Signification and Mind by John Magee Pdf

Author : Thomas Böhm,Thomas Jürgasch,Andreas Kirchner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110310757

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Boethius as a Paradigm of Late Ancient Thought by Thomas Böhm,Thomas Jürgasch,Andreas Kirchner Pdf

Boethius gehört zu den herausragenden Denkern der spätantiken Geistesgeschichte. Anders, als man vielleicht meinen würde, ist diese Sicht auf Boethius in der Forschung allerdings nicht unumstritten und verhältnismäßig neu. Sie lässt eine Tendenz zur Neubewertung erkennen, die nicht nur Boethius, sondern auch das Denken seiner Zeit immer mehr in seiner Eigenständigkeit zu würdigen beginnt. So werden Boethius wie auch die Spätantike immer weniger nur als Instanzen der Vermittlung klassisch antiken Wissens in das christliche Mittelalter angesehen. Worin aber besteht die Originalität des Boethius und des durch ihn wesentlich geprägten spätantiken Denkens? Kann die Spätantike als eine eigene geistesgeschichtliche Epoche betrachtet werden? Wie ist sie dann zu charakterisieren? Inwiefern ist Boethius als eine oder vielleicht sogar die paradigmatische Gestalt der Spätantike zu beschreiben? Diesen und weiteren Fragen gehen die Autorinnen und Autoren des vorliegenden Sammelbandes nach.

Author : Michael Wiitala
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781009288224

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Boethius's ‘Consolation of Philosophy' by Michael Wiitala Pdf

The first collection of philosophical essays devoted exclusively to Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy by scholars of late antiquity and medieval philosophy.

Author : Michael Wiitala
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781009288262

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Boethius’ ‘Consolation of Philosophy’ by Michael Wiitala Pdf

Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy was one of the most widely read and influential texts in medieval Europe, considering questions such as How can evil exist in a world governed by God? And how is happiness still attainable despite the vicissitudes of fortune? Written as a dialogue between Boethius and Lady Philosophy, and alternating between poetry and prose, the Consolation is of interest not only to philosophers but to students of classics and literature as well. In this Critical Guide, the first collection of philosophical essays devoted exclusively to the Consolation, thirteen new essays demonstrate its ongoing vitality and break open its riches for a new generation of readers. The essays reflect the diverse array of approaches in contemporary scholarship and attend to both the literary features and the philosophical content of the Consolation. The volume will be invaluable for scholars of medieval philosophy, medieval literature, and the history of ideas.

Author : John Sellars
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317675822

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The Routledge Handbook of the Stoic Tradition by John Sellars Pdf

The ancient philosophy of stoicism has been a crucial and formative influence on the development of Western thought since its inception through to the present day. It is not only an important area of study in philosophy and classics, but also in theology and literature. The Routledge Handbook of the Stoic Tradition is the first volume of its kind, and an outstanding guide and reference source to the nature and continuing significance of stoicism. Comprising twenty-six chapters by a team of international contributors and organised chronologically, the Handbook is divided into four parts: Antiquity and the Middle Ages, including stoicism in Rome; stoicism in early Christianity; the Platonic response to stoicism; and stoic influences in the late Middle Ages Renaissance and Reformation, addressing the impact of stoicism on the Italian Renaissance, Reformation thought, and early modern English literature including Shakespeare Early Modern Europe, including stoicism and early modern French thought; the stoic influence on Spinoza and Leibniz; stoicism and the French and Scottish Enlightenment; and Kant and stoic ethics The Modern World, including stoicism in nineteenth century German philosophy; stoicism in Victorian culture; stoicism in America; stoic themes in contemporary Anglo-American ethics; and the stoic influence on modern psychotherapy. An invaluable resource for anyone interested in the philosophical history and impact of stoic thought, The Routledge Handbook of the Stoic Tradition is essential reading for all students and researchers working on the subject.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004324275

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History of Logic and Semantics by Anonim Pdf

History of Logic and Semantics offers a collection of studies on the development of the Aristotelian and terminist approaches to language, from the Boethian reception of Aristotle to the post-medieval terminism. These articles were also published in Vivarium, Volume 53, Nos. 2-4 (2015).

Author : Ana María Mora-Marquez
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004300132

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The Thirteenth-Century Notion of Signification by Ana María Mora-Marquez Pdf

In The Thirteenth-Century Notion of Signification, Ana María Mora-Márquez offers the first exhaustive study of the three discussions explicitly dealing with the notion of Significatio in the pre-nominalist medieval tradition, with the aim to reveal their common origin and development.

Author : John Magee,Simplicius (of Cilicia.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Categories (Philosophy)
ISBN : 9004090967

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Boethius on Signification and Mind by John Magee,Simplicius (of Cilicia.) Pdf

Author : Amelia Robertson Brown,Bronwen Neil
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004349070

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Byzantine Culture in Translation by Amelia Robertson Brown,Bronwen Neil Pdf

This collection on Byzantine culture in translation, edited by Amelia Brown and Bronwen Neil, examines the practices and theories of translation inside the Byzantine empire and beyond its horizons to the east, north and west, from Late Antiquity to the present.

Author : Margaret Cameron,Robert J. Stainton
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191046339

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Linguistic Content by Margaret Cameron,Robert J. Stainton Pdf

Philosophy of language has a rich and varied history stretching back to the Ancient Greeks. Twelve specially written essays explore this richness, from Plato and Aristotle, through the Stoics, to medieval thinkers, both Islamic and Christian; from the Renaissance and the early modern period, all the way up to the twentieth Century. Among the many topics that arise across this 2500-year trajectory are metaphysical questions about linguistic content. A first focal point of the volume is the issue of which broad ontological family linguistic contents belong to. Are linguistic contents mental ideas, physical particulars, abstract Forms, social practices, or something else again? And do different sorts of linguistic contents belong to different ontological categories-e.g., might it be that names stand for ideas, whereas logical terms stand for mental processes? The second focal point is the metaphysical grounding of linguistic content: that is, in virtue of what more basic facts do content facts obtain? Do words mean what they do because of natural resemblances? Because of causal relations? Because of arbitrary conventional usage? Or because of some combination of the above?

Author : Christopher J. Dowson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004677968

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Philosophia Translata: The Development of Latin Philosophical Vocabulary through Translation from Greek by Christopher J. Dowson Pdf

How Latin philosophical vocabulary developed through the translation of Greek sources, the varieties of translation practices Roman philosophers favoured, and how these practices evolved over time are the overarching themes of this monograph. A first of its kind, this comparative study analyzes the creation of philosophical vocabulary in Lucretius, Cicero, Apuleius, Calcidius, and Boethius. It highlights a Latin literary tradition in which the dominance of Greek philosophical expression was challenged and renovated over time through the individual translation choices of different Latin authors. Included are full glossaries of Latin and Greek philosophical terms with explanatory notes for the reader.

Author : Jordan Kirk
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780823294497

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Medieval Nonsense by Jordan Kirk Pdf

Five hundred years before “Jabberwocky” and Tender Buttons, writers were already preoccupied with the question of nonsense. But even as the prevalence in medieval texts of gibberish, babble, birdsong, and allusions to bare voice has come into view in recent years, an impression persists that these phenomena are exceptions that prove the rule of the period’s theologically motivated commitment to the kernel of meaning over and against the shell of the mere letter. This book shows that, to the contrary, the foundational object of study of medieval linguistic thought was vox non-significativa, the utterance insofar as it means nothing whatsoever, and that this fact was not lost on medieval writers of various kinds. In a series of close and unorthodox readings of works by Priscian, Boethius, Augustine, Walter Burley, Geoffrey Chaucer, and the anonymous authors of the Cloud of Unknowing and St. Erkenwald, it inquires into the way that a number of fourteenth-century writers recognized possibilities inherent in the accounts of language transmitted to them from antiquity and transformed those accounts into new ideas, forms, and practices of non-signification. Retrieving a premodern hermeneutics of obscurity in order to provide materials for an archeology of the category of the literary, Medieval Nonsense shows how these medieval linguistic textbooks, mystical treatises, and poems were engineered in such a way as to arrest the faculty of interpretation and force it to focus on the extinguishing of sense that occurs in the encounter with language itself.

Author : Richard Cross,JT Paasch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317486435

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The Routledge Companion to Medieval Philosophy by Richard Cross,JT Paasch Pdf

Like any other group of philosophers, scholastic thinkers from the Middle Ages disagreed about even the most fundamental of concepts. With their characteristic style of rigorous semantic and logical analysis, they produced a wide variety of diverse theories about a huge number of topics. The Routledge Companion to Medieval Philosophy offers readers an outstanding survey of many of these diverse theories, on a wide array of subjects. Its 35 chapters, all written exclusively for this Companion by leading international scholars, are organized into seven parts: I Language and Logic II Metaphysics III Cosmology and Physics IV Psychology V Cognition VI Ethics and Moral Philosophy VII Political Philosophy In addition to shedding new light on the most well-known philosophical debates and problems of the medieval era, the Companion brings to the fore topics that may not traditionally be associated with scholastic philosophy, but were in fact a veritable part of the tradition. These include chapters covering scholastic theories about propositions, atomism, consciousness, and democracy and representation. The Routledge Companion to Medieval Philosophy is a helpful, comprehensive introduction to the field for undergraduate students and other newcomers as well as a unique and valuable resource for researchers in all areas of philosophy.

Author : Dorthe Duncker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351060370

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The Reflexivity of Language and Linguistic Inquiry by Dorthe Duncker Pdf

This book explores the reflexivity of language both from the perspective of the lay speaker and the linguistic analyst. Linguistic inquiry is conditional upon linguistic reflexivity, but so is language. Without linguistic reflexivity, we would not be able to make sense of everyday linguistic communication, and the idea of a language would not be conceivable. Not even fundamental notions such as words or meaning would exist. Linguistic reflexivity is a feature of the communication process, and it essentially depends on situated participants and time. It is a defining characteristic of the human language but despite its obvious importance, it is not very well understood theoretically, and it is strangely under-researched empirically. Throughout history and in modern linguistics, it has mostly either been taken for granted, misconstrued, or ignored. Only integrational linguistics fully recognizes its specifically linguistic implications. However, integrational linguistics does not provide the necessary methodological basis for investigating linguistic phenomena empirically. This catch-22 situation means that the goal of the book is twofold: one part is to explore the reflexivity of language theoretically, and the other part is to propose an applied integrational linguistics and to implement this proposal in practice.