Seeds Of Virtue And Knowledge

Author : Maryanne Cline Horowitz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : 0691044635

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Seeds of Virtue and Knowledge by Maryanne Cline Horowitz Pdf

In this wide-ranging and thought-provoking study, Maryanne Cline Horowitz explores the image and idea of the human mind as a garden: under the proper educational cultivation, the mind may nourish seeds of virtue and knowledge into the full flowering of human wisdom. This copiously illustrated investigation begins by examining the intellectual world of the Stoics, who originated the phrases "seeds of virtue" and "seeds of knowledge." Tracing the interrelated history of the Stoic cluster of epistemological images for natural law within humanity--reason, common notions, sparks, and seeds--Horowitz presents the distinctive versions within the competing movements of Hellenistic Judaism and early Christianity, Augustinian and Thomist theologies, Christian mysticism and Kabbalah, and Erasmian Catholicism and the Lutheran Reformation. She demonstrates how the Ciceronian and Senecan analogies between horticulture and culture--basic to Italian Renaissance humanists, artists, and neo- Platonists--influence the emergence of emblems and essays among participants in the Northern Renaissance neo-Stoic movement. The Stoic metaphor is still visible today in ecumenical movements that use vegetative language to encourage the growth of shared values and to promote civic virtues: organizations disseminate information on nipping bad habits in the bud and on turning a new leaf. The author's evidence of illustrated pages from medieval, Renaissance, and Enlightenment texts will stimulate contemporary readers to evaluate her discovery of "the premodern scientific paradigm that the mind develops like a plant."

Author : Benjamin Rush
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Ethics
ISBN : HARVARD:32044084661180

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An Inquiry Into the Influence of Physical Causes Upon the Moral Faculty by Benjamin Rush Pdf

Author : Henry Dyson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110212280

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Prolepsis and Ennoia in the Early Stoa by Henry Dyson Pdf

This book offers a reconstruction of the early Stoic doctrine of prolepsis, revealing it to be much closer to Platonic recollection in certain respects than previously thought. The standard interpretation of prolepsis as preconceptions is inconsistent with their status as criteria of truth. Rather, prolepsis is a form of tacit knowledge that requires articulation and systematization. This reconstruction is supported by a comprehensive collection of texts relating to prolepsis from Epicurus to Alexander of Aphrodisias.

Author : Maryanne Cline Horowitz,Louise Arizzoli
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004438033

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Bodies and Maps by Maryanne Cline Horowitz,Louise Arizzoli Pdf

An exploration of the ways early modern European artists have visualized continents through the female (sometimes male) body to express their perceptions of newly encountered peoples. Often stereotypical, these personifications are however more complex than what they seem.

Author : Celeste Brusati,Karl A. E.. Enenkel,Walter Melion
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 773 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004215153

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The Authority of the Word by Celeste Brusati,Karl A. E.. Enenkel,Walter Melion Pdf

This book examines scriptural authority and its textual and visual instruments, asking how words and images interacted to represent and by representing to constitute authority, both sacred and secular, in Northern Europe between 1400 and 1700.

Author : JulianH. Franklin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351561792

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Jean Bodin by JulianH. Franklin Pdf

In the course of a lifetime, Jean Bodin aimed at nothing less than to encompass all the disciplines of his age in a huge encyclopedia of knowledge. In many areas, his ideas have been not only original but seminal. He made major contributions to historiography, philosophy of history, economics, political science, comparative public law and policy, religion and national philosophy. This volume brings together a selection of major articles in English, representing almost all of his intellectual interests. It is an essential collection for libraries and scholars in both humanities and social sciences.

Author : Michael Allen,Valery Rees
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047400547

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Marsilio Ficino by Michael Allen,Valery Rees Pdf

This volume consists of 21 essays on Marsilio Ficino (1433-99), the great Florentine scholar, philosopher and priest who was the architect of Renaissance Platonism and whose long-lasting influence on philosophy, love and music theory, medicine and magic extended across Europe. Grouped into three sections, they cover such topics as priesthood, the influence of Hermetic monism, Plotinus and Augustine, Jewish transmission of the prisca theologia, the 15th c. Plato-Aristotle controversy, the soul and its afterlife, the primacy of the will, theriac and musical therapy, the notions of matter, seeds, mirrors and clocks, and other fascinating philosophical and theological issues. Also considered are Ficino’s critics, his relationship to the Camaldolese Order, his letters to princes, his influence on art, on Copernicus, on Chapman, and the nature of the Platonic Academy. Contributors include: Tamara Albertini, Michael J. B. Allen, Francis Ames-Lewis, Donald Beecher, Christopher S. Celenza, Stephen Clucas, Arthur Field, Hiroshi Hirai, Moshe Idel, Dilwyn Knox, Sergius Kodera, Jill Kraye, Dennis F. Lackner, Jörg Lauster, Anthony Levi, John Monfasani, Valery Rees, Clement Salaman, Peter Serracino-Inglott, M. Stéphane Toussaint, and Angela Voss.

Author : Elizabeth Hyde
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812238266

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Cultivated Power by Elizabeth Hyde Pdf

Cultivated Power explores the collection, cultivation, and display of flowers in early modern France at the historical moment when flowering plants piqued the curiosity of European gardeners and botanists, merchants and ministers, and dukes and kings alike.

Author : Warren Boutcher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780198123743

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The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe by Warren Boutcher Pdf

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume One focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Volume Two focuses on the reader/writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript. The two volumes work together to offer a new picture of the book's significance in literary and intellectual history. Montaigne's is now usually understood to be the school of late humanism or of Pyrrhonian scepticism. This study argues that the school of Montaigne potentially included everyone in early modern Europe with occasion and means to read and write for themselves and for their friends and family, unconstrained by an official function or scholastic institution. For the Essais were shaped by a battle that had intensified since the Reformation and that would continue through to the pre-Enlightenment period. It was a battle to regulate the educated individual's judgement in reading and acting upon the two books bequeathed by God to man. The book of scriptures and the book of nature were becoming more accessible through print and manuscript cultures. But at the same time that access was being mediated more intensively by teachers such as clerics and humanists, by censors and institutions, by learned authors of past and present, and by commentaries and glosses upon those authors. Montaigne enfranchised the unofficial reader-writer with liberties of judgement offered and taken in the specific historical conditions of his era. The study draws on new ways of approaching literary history through the history of the book and of reading. The Essais are treated as a mobile, transnational work that travelled from Bordeaux to Paris and beyond to markets in other countries from England and Switzerland, to Italy and the Low Countries. Close analysis of editions, paratexts, translations, and annotated copies is informed by a distinct concept of the social context of a text. The concept is derived from anthropologist Alfred Gell's notion of the "art nexus": the specific types of actions and agency relations mediated by works of art understood as "indexes" that give rise to inferences of particular kinds. Throughout the two volumes the focus is on the particular nexus in which a copy, an edition, an extract, is embedded, and on the way that nexus might be described by early modern people.

Author : J. Budziszewski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107165786

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Commentary on Thomas Aquinas's Virtue Ethics by J. Budziszewski Pdf

This guide to St Thomas Aquinas' virtue ethics provides commentary on essential texts, rendering them accessible to all readers.

Author : Sabine MacCormack
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400843695

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Religion in the Andes by Sabine MacCormack Pdf

Addressing problems of objectivity and authenticity, Sabine MacCormack reconstructs how Andean religion was understood by the Spanish in light of seventeenth-century European theological and philosophical movements, and by Andean writers trying to find in it antecedents to their new Christian faith.

Author : M.A. Jackson-McCabe
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004267510

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Logos and Law in the Letter of James by M.A. Jackson-McCabe Pdf

This study examines the association of "implanted logos" and the "perfect law of freedom" in the Letter of James. It argues that James understands the Torah to be a written expression of the divine law the Stoics correlated with human reason. After showing how past interpretation of James's logos has been guided by a problematic essentialist approach to Christian origins, the Stoic theory of law is reconstructed with special attention to Cicero's concept of "implanted reason." Adaptations of the Stoic theory in ancient Jewish and Christian literature are examined, and the Letter of James is analyzed in detail. The work makes original contributions to the study of James and of Stoicism. It also highlights the importance of broad reconstructions of Christian origins for the interpretation of the early Christian literature.

Author : Rebecca May Wilkin
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0754661385

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Women, Imagination and the Search for Truth in Early Modern France by Rebecca May Wilkin Pdf

Grounded in medical, juridical, and philosophical texts of 16th- and 17th-century France, this study tells the story of how the idea of woman contributed to the emergence of modern science. It challenges scholars to revise deeply held notions regarding the place of women in the early modern search for truth.

Author : Jason Scully
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192525475

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Isaac of Nineveh's Ascetical Eschatology by Jason Scully Pdf

Isaac of Nineveh's Ascetical Eschatology demonstrates that Isaac's eschatology is an original synthesis based on ideas garnered from a distinctively Syriac cultural milieu. Jason Scully investigates six sources relevant to the study of Isaac's Syriac source material and cultural heritage. These include ideas adapted from Syriac authors like Ephrem, John the Solitary, and Narsai, but also adapted from the Syriac versions of texts originally written in Greek, like Evagrius's Gnostic Chapters, Pseudo-Dionysius's Mystical Theology, and the Pseudo-Macarian homilies. Isaac's eschatological synthesis of this material is a sophisticated discourse on the psychological transformation that occurs when the mind has an experience of God. It begins with the premise that asceticism was part of God's original plan for creation. Isaac says that God created human beings with infantile knowledge and that God intended from the beginning for Adam and Eve to leave the Garden of Eden. Once outside the garden, human beings would have to pursue mature knowledge through bodily asceticism. Although perfect knowledge is promised in the future world, Isaac also believes that human beings can experience a proleptic taste of this future perfection. Isaac employs the concepts of wonder and astonishment in order to explain how an ecstatic experience of the future world is possible within the material structures of this world. According to Isaac, astonishment describes the moment when a person arrives at the threshold of eschatological perfection but is still unable to comprehend the heavenly mysteries, while wonder describes spiritual comprehension of heavenly knowledge through the intervention of divine grace.

Author : David M. Cloutier,William C. Mattison III
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725249318

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Journal of Moral Theology, Volume 3, Number 1 by David M. Cloutier,William C. Mattison III Pdf

Virtue Volume 3, Number 1, January 2014 Edited by David Cloutier and William C. Mattison III Moral Reason, Person and Virtue: The Aristotelian-Thomistic Perspective in the Face of Current Challenges from Neurobiology Martin Rhonheimer The Desire for Happiness and the Virtues of the Will Jean Porter Elevating and Healing: Reflections on Summa Theologiae I-II q. 109, a. 2 John R. Bowlin The Case for an Exemplarist Approach to Virtue in Catholic Moral Theology Patrick M. Clark After White Supremacy? The Viability of Virtue Ethics for Racial Justice Maureen H. O'Connell Ends and Virtues Angela Knobel Virtue, Action, and the Human Species Charles R. Pinches Progress in the Good: A Defense of the Thomistic Unity Thesis Andrew Kim Teresa of Avila's Liberative Humility Lisa Fullam Faith, Love, and Stoic Assent: Reconsidering Virtue in the Reformed Tradition Elizabeth Agnew Cochran Review Essay: The Resurgence of Virtue in Recent Moral Theology David Cloutier and William C. Mattison III