Deus Mortalis

Author : Michael Erler
Publisher : Schwabe Verlag (Basel)
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783796540202

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Epicurus by Michael Erler Pdf

This new introduction into Epicurus' practical ethics and politics provides an overview of Epicurus' attitudes towards political, religious and cultural traditions. Emphasising his claim that philosophy is an art of living that helps people to achieve individual happiness, the book pays special attention to Epicurus' understanding of philosophy as caring for the soul of one's own. It explains how this Epicurean self-care is connected with caring for others since a happy life requires security that can almost only be found in a community. Epicurus' practical ethics includes a special appreciation of friendship and a conception of 'politics' which indeed focuses on caring for the souls of others. It thus stands firmly in the Socratic tradition. This understanding of practical ethics contributed significantly to the fact that, despite many hostilities, at least practical ethical aspects of Epicurus' teachings were still discussed in the Greco-Roman Empire and sometimes even appreciated by early Christian philosophers.

Author : Armando Verdiglione
Publisher : IL CLUB DI MILANO
Page : 976 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9788885806085

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Urkommunismus. Fear of the Word by Armando Verdiglione Pdf

The Urkommunismus (the ideal place, the common place, the utopia, the pure place of origin) presides over every mysterious, therefore political, penal, social, financial, institutional, corporate doctrine, and dictates its canons, formulas, algorithms. It is the reference of every bureaucracy in its sacrificial, penal ceremonial. On the principle of nothingness, every regime unravels the fear of the word, to confiscate life. Ideally and really. Both “to the East” and “to the West”. In this book the analysis and reading are performed of the writings called “founding”, which mark our age, weighing down, in its models and its offices. The result is the text of the word, as well as the absolute novelty. And here we also discuss the letters of Aldo Moro, the letters of the Red Brigades, the writings of Paul VI, of “Clean Hands”, the European and Italian legislation, the writings of Cardinal Carlo Borromeo, of Giordano Bruno, of Eckhart, of Dante Alighieri, the Rigveda, the Bhagavad Gita, the Upanishad, the Avesta, the I Ching, Lao Tzu and Tao Te Ching, Lie Zi, Chuang-Tzu, the Bible, Buddha, the Qur’an, Antigone, Medea, the classics of tragedy, the classics of epics, of lyrics, of philosophy, of science, of mathematical logic, Confucius, Mencius, Ma gcig, the Sixth Dalai Lama, Mao, Khomeini, Gandhi, Narendra Modi, Xi Jinping.

Author : Fergus J. King
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783161595455

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Epicureanism and the Gospel of John by Fergus J. King Pdf

The Gospel of John and Epicureanism share vocabulary and reject the conventions of Graeco-Roman theology. Would it then have been easy for an Epicurean to become a Christian or vice-versa? Fergus J. King suggests that such claims become unlikely when detailed analyses of the two traditions are set out and compared. The first step in his examination looks at evidence for potential engagement between the two traditions historically and geographically. Both traditions address concerns about the good life, death, and the divine. However, this correspondence soon unravels as their worldviews are far from identical. Shared terms (like Saviour), their respective rituals, and teaching about community life reveal substantial differences in ethos and behaviour.

Author : Adam Drozdek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317124696

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Greek Philosophers as Theologians by Adam Drozdek Pdf

Concepts of God presented by Greek philosophers were significantly different from the image of the divine of popular religion and indicate a fairly sophisticated theological reflection from the very inception of Greek philosophy. This book presents a comprehensive history of theological thought of Greek philosophers from the Presocratics to the early Hellenistic period. Concentrating on views concerning the attributes of God and their impact on eschatological and ethical thought, Drozdek explains that theology was of paramount importance for all Greek philosophers even in the absence of purely theological or religious language.

Author : Dorothea Frede,André Laks
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004122648

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Traditions of Theology by Dorothea Frede,André Laks Pdf

Articles in this volume, orginally presented at the 1998 Symposium Hellenisticum in Lille, discuss theological questions that were central to the doctrines of the dominant schools in the Hellenistic age, such as the existence of the gods, their nature, and their concern for humankind.

Author : Carl Schmitt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226738949

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The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes by Carl Schmitt Pdf

First published in 1938, The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes used the Enlightenment philosopher's enduring symbol of the protective Leviathan to address the nature of modern statehood.

Author : Justin Allison
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004434028

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Saving One Another: Philodemus and Paul on Moral Formation in Community by Justin Allison Pdf

In Saving One Another: Philodemus and Paul on Moral Formation in Community Justin Reid Allison compares how the Epicurean philosopher Philodemus and the Christian apostle Paul envisioned the members of their communities helping one another to grow into moral maturity. Allison establishes that Philodemus and Paul are more similar than previously noticed in their conception and practice of moral formation in community, and that these similarities offer a critical opportunity to consider important differences between the two as well. By deepening the comparison to include differences alongside similarities, and to include theological and socio-economic facets of communal moral formation, Allison shows that Philodemus and Paul uniquely shed fresh light on one another’s texts when understood in comparative perspective.

Author : Ryan Hackenbracht
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501731082

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National Reckonings by Ryan Hackenbracht Pdf

During the tumultuous years of the English Revolution and Restoration, national crises like civil wars and the execution of the king convinced Englishmen that the end of the world was not only inevitable but imminent. National Reckonings shows how this widespread eschatological expectation shaped nationalist thinking in the seventeenth century. Imagining what Christ's return would mean for England's body politic, a wide range of poets, philosophers, and other writers—including Milton, Hobbes, Winstanley, and Thomas and Henry Vaughan,—used anticipation of the Last Judgment to both disrupt existing ideas of the nation and generate new ones. Ryan Hackenbracht contends that nationalism, consequently, was not merely a horizontal relationship between citizens and their sovereign but a vertical one that pitted the nation against the shortly expected kingdom of God. The Last Judgment was the site at which these two imagined communities, England and ecclesia (the universal church), would collide. Harnessing the imaginative space afforded by literature, writers measured the shortcomings of an imperfect and finite nation against the divine standard of a perfect and universal community. In writing the nation into end-times prophecies, such works as Paradise Lost and Leviathan offered contemporary readers an opportunity to participate in the cosmic drama of the world's end and experience reckoning while there was still time to alter its outcome.

Author : Paul A. Kottman
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801895425

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Tragic Conditions in Shakespeare by Paul A. Kottman Pdf

Paul A. Kottman offers a new and compelling understanding of tragedy as seen in four of Shakespeare’s mature plays—As You Like It, Hamlet, King Lear, and The Tempest. The author pushes beyond traditional ways of thinking about tragedy, framing his readings with simple questions that have been missing from scholarship of the past generation: Are we still moved by Shakespeare, and why? Kottman throws into question the inheritability of human relationships by showing how the bonds upon which we depend for meaning and worth can be dissolved. According to Kottman, the lives of Shakespeare's protagonists are conditioned by social bonds—kinship ties, civic relations, economic dependencies, political allegiances—that unravel irreparably. This breakdown means they can neither inherit nor bequeath a livable or desirable form of sociality. Orlando and Rosalind inherit nothing “but growth itself” before becoming refugees in the Forest of Arden; Hamlet is disinherited not only by Claudius’s election but by the sheer vacuity of the activities that remain open to him; Lear’s disinheritance of Cordelia bequeaths a series of events that finally leave the social sphere itself forsaken of heirs and forbearers alike. Firmly rooted in the philosophical tradition of reading Shakespeare, this bold work is the first sustained interpretation of Shakespearean tragedy since Stanley Cavell’s work on skepticism and A. C. Bradley’s century-old Shakespearean Tragedy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Argentina
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173014321890

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Deus mortalis by Anonim Pdf

Author : Marek Winiarczyk
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110294880

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The "Sacred History" of Euhemerus of Messene by Marek Winiarczyk Pdf

In his utopian novel Hiera Anagraphe (Sacred History) Euhemerus of Messene (ca. 300 B.C.) describes his travel to the island Panchaia in the Indian Ocean where he discovered an inscribed stele in the temple of Zeus Triphylius. It turned out that the Olympian gods (Uranos, Kronos, Zeus) were deified kings. The travels of Zeus allowed to describe peoples and places all over the world. Winiarczyk investigates the sources of the theological views of Euhemerus. He proves that Euhemerus’ religious views were rooted in old Greek tradition (the worship of heroes, gods as founders of their own cult, tombs of gods, euergetism, rationalistic interpretation of myths, the explanations of the origin of religion by the sophists, the ruler cult). The description of the Panchaian society is intended to suggest an archaic and closed culture, in which the stele recording res gestae of the deified kings might have been preserved. The translation of Ennius’ Euhemerus sive Sacra historia (ca. 200 - ca. 194) is a free prose rendering, which Lactantius knew only indirectly. The book is concluded by a short history of Euhemerism in the pagan, Christian and Jewish literature.

Author : Martín Plot
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781441195661

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The Aesthetico-Political by Martín Plot Pdf

This study uses new arguments to reinvestigate the relation between aesthetics and politics in the contemporary debates on democratic theory and radical democracy. First, Carl Schmitt and Claude Lefort help delineate the contours of an aesthetico-political understanding of democracy, which is developed further by studying Merleau-Ponty, Rancière, and Arendt. The ideas of Merleau-Ponty serve to establish a general "ontological" framework that aims to contest the dominant currents in contemporary democratic theory. It is argued that Merleau-Ponty, Arendt, and Rancière share a general understanding of the political as the contingently contested spaces and times of appearances. However, the articulation of their thought leads to reconsider and explore under-theorized as well as controversial dimensions of their work. This search for new connections between the political and the aesthetic thought of Arendt and Merleau-Ponty on one hand and the current widespread interest in Rancière's aesthetic politics on the other make this book a unique study that will appeal to anyone who is interested in political theory and contemporary continental philosophy.

Author : Maarten Wisse,Marcel Sarot,Willemien Otten
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004193772

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Scholasticism Reformed by Maarten Wisse,Marcel Sarot,Willemien Otten Pdf

The essays collected in Reformed Scholasticism continue Willem van Asselt's endeavours towards a reassessment of (Reformed) scholasticism through various historical case studies and theological analyses, while they also criticize various aspects of this reassessment.

Author : Alexander Cooke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1625
Category : Papacy
ISBN : BL:A0020247106

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The Weather-cocke of Romes Religion with Her Severall Changes by Alexander Cooke Pdf

Author : Marie-Luise von Franz
Publisher : Open Court Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0875484174

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Projection and Re-collection in Jungian Psychology by Marie-Luise von Franz Pdf

"Marie Louise von Franz's Projection and Re-Collection is thorough in its wide-ranging exploration as both a map and a guide to the recognition and reclaiming of projection. Von Franz skillfully brings theory to life as she builds on and further develops C.G. Jung's research on projection". -- Julia Jewett Jungian Analyst "The book is stimulating in going to the core of psychotherapeutic work, and invites a response from psychotherapists in general and from Jungian analysts in particular". -- San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal