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Putting away childish things: incidents of recovery in Tolkien and Haddon [PDF]
The article discusses the philosophy of author J.R.R. Tolkien. Borrowing concepts from Gerard Manley Hopkins and John Duns Scotus, Tolkien developed the concept of recovery, in which a person is able to interact with the world as though they have never ...
Vincent, A.M.
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Keep taking the tablets: how Prudentius’ account of St Cassian shaped medieval school stories
In about 400 Prudentius visited the shrine of St Cassian at Imola and wrote a poem describing his martyrdom. Cassian, a schoolmaster, had been killed by his own pupils using their styli and wax tablets. The story was popular throughout the Middle Ages and its medieval reception has attracted attention.
Julia Barrow
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According to Aristotle and the majority of medieval philosophers and theologians metaphysics is based on the analogy of being. It is the only way between two extremes – univocity and equivocity.
Oliver Sitár
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Exemplar Causality as similitudo aequivoca in Peter Auriol [PDF]
The aim of this paper is to discuss the theory of exemplary causality of Peter Auriol (1280-1322). Until at least the late 13th century, medieval authors claim that the world is orderly and intelligible because God created it according to the models ...
Paladini, Chiara
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Christ the Mediator and Head of Angels in Calvin's Theology
Abstract Though Calvin is averse to theological speculation, he is the first to claim that Christ is Mediator and Head of Angels. This often‐overlooked office is present consistently throughout the various editions of the Institutes and can be found in his treatises, commentaries, catechism, and various sermons.
Arthur Rankin
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Duns Scotus on Divine Substance and the Trinity [PDF]
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Cross, Richard
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Thinking Poetically and Thinking Politically—Arendt, Benjamin, Heidegger, and Arendt's Benjamin
Constellations, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 577-587, December 2025.
Jacob Abolafia
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Pursuit of the concept of validity: A dialogue
Abstract This is a dialogue between Lisa and Max on Dag Prawitz's work concerning the concept of deductive validity. Lisa first explains Prawitz's criticisms of the presently prevailing non‐epistemic analyses of validity. Then Lisa describes three different ways in which Prawitz attempted to develop an epistemic concept of validity.
Cesare Cozzo
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Crónica del XII Congreso Latinoamericano de Filosofía Medieval “Juan Duns Scoto”. Séptimo centenario de su muerte (1308-2008). Buenos Aires, 6 a 10 de octubre de 2008 [PDF]
El XI Congreso Latinoamericano de Filosofía Medieval, auspiciado por la Comissão Brasileira de Filosofia Medieval, ha girado en torno al tema central del séptimo Centenario de la muerte de Juan Duns Escoto en 1308.
Lázaro Pulido, Manuel
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Descartes on Place and Motion: A Reading through Cartesian Commentaries**
Abstract This paper offers a reconstruction of the interpretations of Descartes's ideas of place and motion by Dutch Cartesians (Henricus Regius, Johannes de Raey, Johannes Clauberg, and Christoph Wittich). It does so by focusing on the reading of Descartes's Principia philosophiae (1644) offered, in particular, by the dictated commentaries on it.
Andrea Strazzoni
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