Suchergebnisse

Preliminary Material -- PLEASANT CAMPANIA: EDUCATION BEFORE AND IN THE CONVENT -- FLEEING INTO EXILE—NORTHERN ITALY, GENEVA, TOULOUSE: ASTRONOMY AS A MEANS OF EARNING A LIVING -- PARIS: THE POWER OF MEMORY -- OFF TO LONDON: SATIRE, METAPHYSICS, AND ETHICS IN ITALIAN -- GOD IS NOT IDLE: INFINITE POSSIBILITIES AND INFINITE REALITY -- RELIGION AND ETHICS FOR THE PEOPLE AND THE HERO -- RETURN TO PARIS: CHALLENGING MATHEMATICS AND ARISTOTELIANISM -- "HOUSES OF WISDOM" IN GERMANY: HISTORY, MAGIC, AND ATOMISM -- OFF TO VENICE: THE TRIAL OF THE HERETIC -- AFTERLIFE: FROM HERETIC TO HERMETICIST -- CHRONOLOGY -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- INDEX -- VIBS.

Preliminary Material -- Chapter One Philosophers' Philosophy and School Philosophy -- Chapter Two Apostolato dei Collegi: On the Integration of Humanism in the Educational Program of the Jesuits -- Chapter Three Philosophy at Early Modern Universities -- Chapter Four Péter Pázmány: The Cardinal's Philosophy -- Chapter Five Philosophy in Hungarian: Pál Bertalanffi SJ, Bernard Sartori OFM, and the Scholastic Philosophy of the Eighteenth Century -- Chapter Six Jesuits between Religion and Science -- Chapter Seven Principles and Powers: How to Interpret Renaissance Philosophy of Nature Philosophically? -- Chapter Eight The Jesuits and the Janus-Faced History of Natural Sciences -- Chapter Nine Benedictus Pererius: Renaissance Culture at the Origins of Jesuit Science -- Chapter Ten "Ubi natura facit circulos in essendo, nos facimus in cognoscendo." The Demonstrative Regressus and the Beginning of Modern Science in Catholic Scholastics -- Chapter Eleven Aristotelianism More Geometrico: Honoré Fabri -- Chapter Twelve Rodrigo de Arriaga on Immortality as a Response to Platonism -- Chapter Thirteen Bartolomeo Mastri: From Metaphysics to Natural Theology -- Chapter Fourteen Natural Theology and Philosophy of Religion in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Théophile Raynaud, Luis de Molina, Joseph Falck, Sigismund von Storchenau -- Chapter Fifteen God and Individuals: The Porphyrian Tree in Seventeenth/Eighteenth-Century Philosophy -- Chapter Sixteen Siger and Saint Thomas in the Paradiso -- Chapter Seventeen Cultivating Talents and Social Responsibility: Aims and Means of Early Jesuit Education -- References -- Index.

From faith and reason to fideism : Raymond Lull, Raimundus Sabundus, and Michel de Montaigne -- Nicholas of Cusa and Pythagorean theology -- Giordano Bruno's philosophy of religion -- Coluccio Salutati : hermeneutics of humanity -- Humanism applied to language, logic and religion : Lorenzo Valla -- Georgios Gemistos Plethon : from paganism to Christianity and back -- Marsilio Ficino's philosophical theology -- Giovanni Pico against popular platonism -- Tommaso Campanella : God makes sense in the world -- Francisco Suárez : scholastic and platonic ideas of God -- Epilogue : conflicting truth claims

The Philosophy of Religion is one result of the Early Modern Reformation movements, as competing theologies purported truth claims which were equal in strength and different in contents. Renaissance thought, from Humanism through philosophy of nature, contributed to the origin of the modern concepts of God. This book explores the continuity of philosophy of religion from late medieval thinkers through humanists to late Renaissance philosophers, explaining the growth of the tensions between the philosophical and theological views. Covering the work of Renaissance authors, including Lull, Saluta.

Preliminary Material -- Timothy Richard: Background and Early Thought, 1845-1876 -- Dimensions of the Great Famine -- Government Relief Efforts -- Western Relief Efforts: Timothy Richard as Relief Administrator -- After the Famine: Ch'ing Policies of Rehabilitation and Richard's Early Views of Reform -- Richard's Early Reform Proposals in Chinese Perspective -- List of Gazetteers Containing Information Regarding Famine Conditions and Government Relief Operations in Shansi -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index -- Harvard East Asian Monographs.

Abstract
Ever since the publication of the Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass in 1845, autobiographical testimonies were a mainstay of the abolition movement in the United States. Being or having been held as slaves and all the attendant injury is the very theme of the documents in question, which are testimonies, rather than theoretical works, because the authors maintained the first-person point of view. Since autoethnography aims at overcoming the preset mentality of the researcher in order to gain insight into what it is like to live in a particular social environment, slave narratives, beyond any abolitionist agenda, may serve as a paradigm for autoethnographic interpretation of historic sources. For an understanding of the authentic perspective of the speakers, external redactions need to be filtered out when reading those documents. On the other hand, certain tropes are worth considering (such as ignorance of the speaker's date and place of birth or stereotypical names) because these narrative gestures indicate the state of mind of the narrator. I will propose methods for finding interpretive tools to identify the Self and the world of the slave-narrators. Such interpretation relies on the close reading of narratives as I will show by examples.