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Lorenz Valla. Humanismus als PhilosophieIn Philosophen der Renaissance, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft/primus. 1999.
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11The Transformation of Natural Philosophy: The Case of Philip Melanchthon. Sachiko KusukawaIsis 87 (3): 541-542. 1996.
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Auf dem Weg zur Prozessmetaphysik: Die Funktion der Monaden in Giordano Brunos PhilosophiePerspektiven der Philosophie 27 77-102. 2001.
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10Istoriar la figuraAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 77 (2): 189-212. 2003.Syncretism is a challenge to modern philosophy, but it was the main characteristic of Giordano Bruno’s thought. This has been made clear by Frances A. Yates, who in interpreting Bruno and Renaissance Hermeticism was not afraid of connecting theories and cultural expressions which on the surface are alien to philosophy. In doing so Yates was congenial to her object of study, as syncretism of theory was no mere side effect of Hermeticism, but had a philosophical aim. This aim can be identified as …Read more
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Trinity and Triangle -- Giordano Bruno's Secularizing of the Cusanian TrinitySoter 14 (42). 2004.Nicholas of Cusa (1402-1464) explored the boundaries of human reason for the sake of making religious belief believable. Unwillingly, he became a milestone in the process of rationalizing Christian theology. Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) is a proof to this perspective by the way he makes use of Cusanus’s approach. In his ’Spaccio de la bestia trionfante’, Bruno discusses Cusanus’s attempts at the geometrical problem of squaring the circle. Bruno not only promotes his atomistic geometry, he also use…Read more
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30Giordano BrunoBeck. 1999.Vorbemerkung „Nichts unter der Sonne ist neu," war Giordano Brunos Leitspruch. Dennoch ist es angebracht, ihn als einen Denker vorzustellen, der eine eigene ...
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100Inhalt: Descartes und das scholastische Argumentieren - Scholastik und Humanismus im Bildungsprogramm der Jesuiten - Nikolaus Cusanus - Marsilio Ficino - Giordano Bruno - Studienordnung und Philosophiebegriff: die Ratio studiorum SJ - Der ...
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Pourchot EdmundIn Luc Foisneau (ed.), The Dictionary of Seventeenth-Century French Philosophers, Thoemmes. 2008.
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9Epistemology and Cosmology in Neoplatonism: Is Cognition a Mind-Body-Problem? Paper at Cosmos, Nature, Culture - A Transdisciplinary Conference Metanexus Conference July 18-21, 2009, Phoenix, Arizona (review)http://www.metanexus.net/conference2009/articles/Default.aspx?id=10790. 2009.
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102Michael Polanyi: the anthropology of intellectual historyStudies in East European Thought 62 (2): 197-216. 2010.Scientific and political developments of the early twentieth century led Michael Polanyi to study the role of the scientist in research and the interaction between the individual scholar and the surrounding conditions in community and society. In his concept of “personal knowledge” he gave the theory and history of science an anthropological turn. In many instances of the history of sciences, research is driven by a commitment to beliefs and values. Society plays the role of authority and commun…Read more
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180Francesco Patrizi in the "Time-Sack": History and Rhetorical PhilosophyJournal of the History of Ideas 61 (1): 59-74. 2000.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Journal of the History of Ideas 61.1 (2000) 59-74 [Access article in PDF] Francesco Patrizi in the "Time-Sack": History and Rhetorical Philosophy * Paul Richard Blum Contemporary theory of history is much concerned with the narrative structure of history, its nature, and its epistemic status. 1 The problem is not only that sources present events mostly wrapped in narrative language but also that temporality is an inherent feature bot…Read more
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A Természet, Mint Személy: Adalékok a természet fogalmának történetéhezMagyar Filozofiai Szemle 4. 2001.
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18Kants Vorsehungskonzept auf dem Hintergrund der deutschen Schulphilosophie und -Theologie (review)American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 83 (1): 161-164. 2009.
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35Rhetoric is the Home of the Transcendent: Ernesto Grassi's Response to Heidegger's Attack on Humanism"Intellectual History Review 22 (2): 261-287. 2012.No abstract
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1Heroic Exercises: Giordano Bruno’s De gli eroici furori as a Response to Ignatius of Loyola’s Exercitia spiritualiaBrunina and Campanelliana 18 359-373. 2012.
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5Sentiendum cum paucis, loquendum cum multis: Die aristotelische Schulphilosophie und die Versuchungen der Naturwissenschaften bei Melchior Cornaeus SJIn Vivian Nutton, Jutta Kolesh, H. J. Lulofs & Jürgen Wiesner (eds.), Kommentierung, Überlieferung, Nachleben, De Gruyter. pp. 538-559. 1985.
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168Philosophers of the Renaissance (edited book)Catholic University of America Press. 2010.*A rich and accessible introduction to the philosophical thought that shaped modernity*
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13Erfahrung, Weltbild und Erkenntnis bei Nikolaus Cusanus†Berichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 14 (2): 97-105. 1991.To explain the interaction of stillness and motion of thought, Nicholas Cusanus formulated his renowned comparison with a cosmographer, which through five gateways, corresponding to the five senses, receives information about the world in the form of messages. What follows therefrom is not directly an analysis of the world but of the Creator, whom the philosopher mirrors in himself as a creator of scientific symbols.Cusanus was repeatedly suspected of Pantheism. What is crucial, however, for the…Read more
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Principles And Powers: How To Interpret Renaissance Philosophy Of Nature Philosophically?Minerva 5 166-181. 2001.The history of philosophy has to understand the problems to which past theories are intended as answers,rather than taking the latter as sets of doctrines, which may be correct or mistaken. Examples from theRenaissance are Nicholas of Cusa, Marsilio Ficino, Bernardino Telesio, Girolamo Cardano, and BenedictusPererius: they show that Renaissance thinkers sought for principles of nature in terms of active powers.Whoever denies the validity of such ideas has the burden of proof that alternative the…Read more
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231Cultivating Talents and Social ResponsibilityHttps://Inside.Loyola.Edu/Teams/Peace_and_justice_studies/Lists/Team%20Discussion/Attachments/1/Blum%20cultivating%20talents%20revised.Pdf
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11Medical Humanism and Natural Philosophy. Renaissance Debates on Matter, Life and the SoulAnnals of Science 1-5. 2013.
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The Young Paul Oskar Kristeller as a PhilosopherIn John Monfasani (ed.), Kristeller Reconsidered, Essays on His Life and Scholarship, Italica. 2006.
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14Albert Krayer: Mathematik im Studienplan der Jesuiten. Die Vorlesung von Otto Cattenius an der Universität Mainz (1610/11). (Beiträge zur Geschichte der Universität Mainz, Bd 15) Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 1991. IX + 434 Seiten, DM 98 (review)Berichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 17 (2): 144-144. 1994.
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Introduction: Philosophy in the renaissanceIn Philosophers of the Renaissance, Catholic University of America Press. 2010.
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3The Historiographical Concept 'System of Philosophy': Its Origin, Nature, Influence, and LegitimacyIntellectual History Review 20 (2): 295-297. 2010.No abstract
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69Giordano Bruno: An IntroductionBrill | Rodopi. 2012.Giordano Bruno was a philosopher in his own right. However, he was famous through the centuries due to his execution as a heretic. His pronouncements against teachings of the Catholic Church, his defence of the cosmology of Nicholas Copernicus, and his provocative personality, all this made him a paradigmatic figure of modernity. Bruno’s way of philosophizing is not looking for outright solutions but rather for the depth of the problems; he knows his predecessors and their strategies as well as …Read more
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4Neuzeitliche Philosophie ist "Philosophenphilosophie", das ist die These dieses Buches, denn seit der Renaissance und besonders seit der Wende der Philosophie bei Descartes bezieht die Philosophie ihre Autoritat aus dem Philosophen selbst, der sie vertritt. Das fur das moderne philosophische Argumentieren selbstverstandliche "Selbstdenken" belastet den Philosophen mit Verantwortung fur die Wahrheit, was auch moralische Konsequenzen hat. Das Gegenmodell ist die Schulphilosophie, die parallel dazu…Read more
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4Philosophieren in der RenaissanceKohlhammer. 2004."Philosophieren in der Renaissance" - das Thema dieses Bandes ist zugleich bescheiden und voraussetzungsreich. Zwar kann der Autor bei weitem keine "Geschichte der Philosophie der Renaissance" versprechen, er beansprucht aber zeigen zu konnen, was in der Epoche der Renaissance zu philosophieren bedeutet hat. Dabei sollen zentrale Themen des Renaissance-Denkens zur Sprache kommen: Wurde des Menschen, Freiheit des Individuums, Mensch und Welt, Religionsfreiheit, Humanismus, Natur, Naturliche Theol…Read more
Ludwig Maximilians Universität, München
Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Study of Religion
PhD, 1978
Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Religion |
Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |