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19This edition of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s “De ente et uno” (“On being and the one”) offers for the first time a key text for the reformation of metaphysics in Renaissance philosophy in German translation. The Latin text is added. The detailed introduction and careful commentary reveal the guiding points Pico has set with this work.
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18Religion – Gesellschaft – Demokratie. Ausgewählte Aufsätze (review)Review of Metaphysics 58 (1): 177-178. 2004.Western Creed, Western Identity: such was the title of a volume of collected essays by Jude P. Dougherty published in 2000; most of these essays are now made available in this German translation. Since the author is well known to the readership of the Review of Metaphysics, which he has served as editor for thirty years, his thought need not to be introduced by way of a book review; rather, it will be of interest to emphasize the timeliness of these studies for the German audience.
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16The Lost Italian Renaissance: Humanists, Historians, and Latin's Legacy (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 43 (4): 485-487. 2005.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:The Lost Italian Renaissance: Humanists, Historians, and Latin’s LegacyPaul Richard BlumChristopher S. Celenza. The Lost Italian Renaissance: Humanists, Historians, and Latin’s Legacy. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Pp. xx + 210. Cloth, $45.00This is a programmatic book about why and how philosophy should care about Renaissance texts. Celenza starts with an assessment of the neglect of the wealth of …Read more
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16Soldier or Scholar: Stratocles or WarApprendice House. 2009.ISBN-13: 978-1934074480
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"An aristocratic young man, fed up with his studies, contemplates military service. His teacher is unable by any reasoning to call him back him from the path he has embarked upon. The young man enlists another youth who commits himself to the journey, dressed in military garb, and he happens upon two deserting soldiers, unsightly and ill-used both in their dress and in their hygiene. Both young men are so moved by the deserters’ remarks depl…Read more -
15Kants Vorsehungskonzept auf dem Hintergrund der deutschen Schulphilosophie und -Theologie (review)American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 83 (1): 161-164. 2009.
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15Humanism and Early Modern Philosophy (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 40 (1): 121-122. 2002.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Journal of the History of Philosophy 40.1 (2002) 121-122 [Access article in PDF] Book Review Humanism and Early Modern Philosophy Jill Kraye and M. W. F. Stone, editors. Humanism and Early Modern Philosophy. New York: Routledge, 2000. Pp. xii + 270. Cloth, $75.00 Early-modern philosophy begins in the seventeenth century. This book, based on a colloquium at the Warburg Institute, London in 1997, strives at extending the limits of this…Read more
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14Daniel P. Walker: Il concetto di spirito o anima in Henry More e Ralph Cudworth. Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Lezioni della Scuola di Studi Superiori in Napoli 5. Napoli (Bibliopolis) 1986. 98 Seiten (review)Berichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 10 (3): 189-190. 1987.
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13Jesuiten zwischen Religion und WissenschaftBerichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 18 (4): 205-216. 1995.Natural sciences and natural philosophy of the Jesuits are based on theology. At least the concept of God is an integral part of their theoretical structure. Examples are taken from Rudjer Boskovic, Honoré Fabri and Nicolaus Cabeus. In fact, the Jesuits, e.g. Theophil Raynaud, dealt with natural theology as the spiritual foundation of knowledge independent of revelation. But natural theology, as in Raimundus Sabundus, has an anthropocentric and hence moral dimension: it links knowledge with reli…Read more
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13Albert 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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11Giordano BrunoInternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2021.Giordano Bruno Giordano Bruno was an Italian philosopher of the later Renaissance whose writings encompassed the ongoing traditions, intentions, and achievements of his times and transmitted them into early modernity. Taking up the medieval practice of the art of memory and of formal logic, he focused on the creativity of the human mind. Bruno … Continue reading Giordano Bruno →
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11„A pretty curious circumstance in the history of sciences”︁: David Humes Naturalisierung der ReligionBerichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 23 (2): 143-155. 2000.
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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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10Erfahrung, 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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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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9Medical Humanism and Natural Philosophy. Renaissance Debates on Matter, Life and the SoulAnnals of Science 1-5. 2013.
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8The Transformation of Natural Philosophy: The Case of Philip Melanchthon by Sachiko Kusukawa (review)Isis 87 541-542. 1996.
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8Philosophy in the Renaissance: an anthology (edited book)The Catholic University of America Press. 2022.The Renaissance was a period of great intellectual change and innovation as philosophers rediscovered the philosophy of classical antiquity and passed it on to the modern age. Renaissance philosophy is distinct both from the medieval scholasticism, based on revelation and authority, and from philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries who transformed it into new philosophical systems. Despite the importance of the Renaissance to the development of philosophy over time, it has remain…Read more
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8Pantheism and panpsychism in the Renaissance and the emergence of secularismIntellectual History Review 34 (1): 1-3. 2024.Pantheism, Panpsychism, and secularism? To any historian of ideas still under the die-hard spell of the Enlightenment narrative, this would appear as an unlikely connection.1 If ever the theory of...
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8How to think with the head of another? The historical dimension of philosophical problemsIntellectual History Review 26 (1): 153-161. 2016.
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7Istoriar 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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7American slave narratives as autoethnographic paradigmHuman Affairs 31 (2): 236-245. 2021.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 t…Read more
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7Maja Kallinen: Change and Stability. Natural Philosophy at the Academy of Turku (1640–1713). (Suomen Historiallinen Seura ‐ Finnish Historical Society: Studia Historica, Bd 51) Helsinki 1995. 439 Seiten. ISBN 951‐710‐001‐6 (review)Berichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 21 (1): 4-4. 1998.
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7Platonische Liebe: Eine wahre GeschichteIn Günter Frank, Anja Hallacker & Sebastian Lalla (eds.), Erzählende Vernunft, Akademie Verlag. pp. 19-28. 2006.
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5Studies on Early Modern AristotelianismBrill. 2012.In Studies on Early Modern Aristotelianism Paul Richard Blum shows that Aristotle’s thought remained the touchstone of modern philosophy; for it was the philosophy taught at universities. The concept of philosophy at Jesuit schools forms the first part of this book. Their impact on the sciences and mathematics in combination with Renaissance ideas of nature is the topic of the second part. The transformation of Aristotelian metaphysics and theology under the influence of the Renaissance is the t…Read more
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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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4Principles and powers: How to interpret Renaissance philosophy of nature philosophically?Minerva - An Internet Journal of Philosophy 5 (1). 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 the Renaissance are Nicholas of Cusa, Marsilio Ficino, Bernardino Telesio, Girolamo Cardano, and Benedictus Pererius: 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…Read more
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4Federico Cesi e la fondazione dell'Accademia dei Lincei. Mostra bibliografica e documentaria. Hrsg. von Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, CERN. Napoli: Nella Sede dell'Istituto 1988. XVII und 142 Seiten (review)Berichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 12 (4): 257-257. 1989.
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3Bildung und Unbildung im 16. Jahrhundert Ein Gastseminar in WolfenbüttelBerichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 6 (1-4): 194-194. 1983.
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3Philosophieren 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
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2Giovanni Pico’s warning against pantheistic implications in Ficino’s NeoplatonismIntellectual History Review 34 (1): 49-66. 2024.The famous controversy between Marsilio Ficino and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola is known to regard the proper use of Platonism in humanist and Christian context. With special attention to Pico’s Commentary on a Canzone, the point of disagreement with Ficino, which is not at all obvious, is examined through a close reading. The result is that Pico sees the temptation of a pantheistic and anthropocentric understanding of the relationship between the human realm and God. Whereas Ficino engaged in …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 |