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Doubting Thomas: Aquinas on Doubt and the Act of Faith
Abstract Several modern theologians affirm that doubt is compatible with faith, even as authoritative voices from the Christian tradition deny this. While Thomas Aquinas is often seen as an exemplar of the traditional view, few scholars have devoted serious attention to the nature of doubt in Thomas’ thought.
Patrick X. Gardner
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Boethius: De Consolatione Philosophiae
Titles of the Chapters / Tituli Capitum from page 10 - 19 lists chapter titles and page number. Pages alternate between English and Old English.Bohn's Antiquarian LibraryIncludes "The Anglo-Saxon version of the Metres of Boethius, with an English free ...
Boethius, Fox, Samuel, 1801-1870
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Kenelm Digby's logic of common and natural notions
Abstract In this article, I take a fresh look at the logic of common and natural notions contained in the Two Treatises published in 1644 by Kenelm Digby (1603–1665). Digby's doctrine of common notions was an attempt to retrofit Aristotelianism in order to bring it out of the shadows of scholasticism and into the age of the new experimental and ...
Mogens Lærke
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Beauty, Ethics and Numbers in Boethius’ Quadrivial Treatises
The convergence of the Neoplatonic/Neopythagorean approach with the Aristotelian organization of the sciences is one of the most interesting features that characterizes the two influential mathematical treatises on On Arithmetics (De institutione ...
Cecilia Panti
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Theme: The Children’s Library Saga and the Swedish Teachers’ Magazine’s Publishing House. Logo: The Swedish Institute for Children's Books Between Ideals and Practice: Barnbiblioteket Saga and the “Indian Books” – the Example of Den siste ...
Ulf Boëthius
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Per dynamin – per energian: Hrotsvit of Gandersheim’s knowledge of Greek
This paper investigates Hrotsvit of Gandersheim’s knowledge of Greek. It proceeds from three questions. First, what resources for learning Greek were available in tenth‐century Germany? Second, were there any figures in her ambit from whom she could have learned?
Graham Robert Johnson
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The Common Nature of Space and Time [PDF]
The term quadrivium refers to the study of arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy. The Pythagoreans referred to the study of number which are Arithmetic (Number in itself), Music (Number in time), Geometry (Number in space) and Astronomy (Number in
Prince A. Wells, III
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Place as a Metaphysical Problem in Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas
Abstract Thomas Aquinas’ particular synthesis of Aristotelianism and Neoplatonism, and the intellectual tradition it inaugurated, has at least twice faced critical challenges from developments in physics. Besieged by the sixteenth and seventeenth century novatores and more or less ignored by the nineteenth‐ and twentieth‐century practitioners of ...
Onsi Aaron Kamel
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Boethius‘ Theorie der argumentativen Wissensvermittlung [PDF]
Ziel dieser Studie ist es zu zeigen, wie Boethius von Anfang an die Funktion der Logik an die durch sie gewonnenen Fertigkeiten knüpft, über Argumentationen gewonnenes Wissen zu prüfen und mithilfe von Argumentationen ausgehend von anerkannten ...
Vogel, Christian
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During and after the Second World War Sweden received around 70 000 Finnish war children. It was by far the biggest of all contingents of refugees during the war.
Ulf Boëthius
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