Olle Spoelstra | Frank-Jan van Triest | Heleen van Doremalen | Joan de Ruijter Denken over democratie

Aan de hand van oude en hedendaagse filosofen proberen de auteurs inzicht te geven in het begrip democratie. Wat is een democratie en wat betekent leven in een democratie?

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Engels | Nederlands | 187 pagina's | Lemniscaat, Rotterdam | 2021

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A text worthy of Plotinus

the lives and correspondence of P. Henry S.J., H.-R. Schwyzer, A.H. Armstrong, J. Trouillard and J. Igal S.J.

A Text Worthy of Plotinus makes available for the first time information on the collaborative work that went into the completion of the first reliable edition of Plotinus' Enneads: Plotini Opera, editio maior, three volumes (Brussels, Paris, and Leiden, 1951-1973), followed by the editio minor, three volumes (Oxford, 1964-1983). Pride of place is given to the correspondence of the editors, Paul Henry S.J. and Hans-Rudolf Schwyzer, with other prominent scholars of late antiquity, amongst whom are...

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Engels | PDF, 16 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2021

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Henricus de Gandavo Henrici de Gandavo Summa

(Quaestiones ordinariae), art. LX-LXII

Articles 56-59 of Henry of Ghent's Summa is devoted to the trinitarian properties. Henry was the most important Christian theological thinker in the last quarter of the 13th century and his works were influential not only in his lifetime, but also in the following century and into the Renaissance. Henry's Quaestiones ordinariae (Summa), articles 56-59 deal with the trinitarian properties and relations, topics of Henry's lectures at the university in Paris. In these articles, dated around 1286, Henry...

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Engels | PDF, 9,5 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2021

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Ioannis Papachristou John Philoponus on Physical Place

This book examines the place of physical bodies, a major topic of natural philosophy that has occupied philosophers since antiquity. Aristotle's conceptions of place (topos) and the void (kenon), as expounded in the Physics, were systematically repudiated by John Philoponus (ca. 485-570) in his philosophical commentary on that work. The primary philosophical concern of the present study is the in-depth investigation of the concept of place established by Philoponus, putting forward the claim that...

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Engels | PDF, 2,3 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2021

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Summistae

the commentary tradition on Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae from the 15th to the 17th centuries

Thomas Aquinas' Summa theologiae is one of the classics in the history of theology and philosophy. Beyond its influence in the Middle Ages, its importance is also borne out by the fact that it became the subject of commentary. During the sixteenth century it was gradually adopted as the official text for the teaching of scholastic theology in most European Catholic universities. As a result, university professors throughout Europe and the colonial Americas started lecturing and producing commentaries...

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Engels | PDF, 4,9 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2021

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Henricus de Gandavo Henrici de Gandavo Summa

(Quaestiones ordinariae), art. LX-LXII

Henry of Ghent was the most important thinker of the last quarter of the 13th century and his works were influential not only in his lifetime, but also in the following century and into the Renaissance. This critical edition of Henry of Ghent's Summa, art. 60-62 deals with the Trinity. The respective articles are based upon this scholastic philosopher's lectures in the theology faculty at the university in Paris and can be dated to slightly after Advent 1290. For Henry and his contemporaries, Trinitarian...

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Engels | Latijn | 322 pagina's (PDF, 3,5 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2018

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Ulrike Guérot De coronacrisis en een Europese republiek

Pleidooi voor een Europese republiek tegen de achtergrond van de coronacrisis.

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Engels | Nederlands | 96 pagina's | ISVW Uitgevers, Leusden | 2021

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Robert Greene The daily laws

366 meditations on power, seduction, mastery, strategy, and human nature

Verzameling van 366 adviezen en inzichten om de eigen drijfveren te leren kennen.

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Engels | 453 pagina's | Profile Books, London | 2023

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Ernst Wolff Martin Versfeld

a South African philosopher in dark times

Dit boek over Martin Versfeld (1909-1995), één van Zuid-Afrika's grootste filosofen die pleitte voor een ethiek van eenvoud, gebaseerd op middeleeuwse theologie en oosterse wijsheid, is een uitnodiging om met hem na te denken over recht en uitbuiting, cultuurverschil en menselijke natuur, religie en milieu, tijd en verbondenheid.

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Engels | 223 pagina's | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2021

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