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Iberian Scepticism in Istanbul: The Hebrew Philosophical Dialogue Attributed to Don Joseph Nasi

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT On 28 April 1577, the printer Joseph Ya’abetz in Constantinople printed a rare Hebrew pamphlet titled Ben Porat Yosef (Joseph, the Offspring of a Fertile Tree). Its author, Isaac ben Samuel Onkeneira, claims to report a philosophical debate between Don Joseph Nasi (1524–1579), the powerful Portuguese‐born agent at the Ottoman court, and a ...
Carsten L. Wilke
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Chosen by God: Providential Suffering and Divine Writing in the Morisco Diaspora

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay reconsiders the anonymous sonnet ‘Y Dios, que a los suyos padeciendo mira’ preserved in the Prologue of MS 11/9394 S‐2 (Biblioteca de la Real Academia de la Historia), a Morisco codex produced near Tunis between 1630 and 1650. As a key yet subtle rhetorical hinge in the text's Prologue, the sonnet establishes MS 11/9394 S‐2 within ...
Andrea Pauw
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The Converso Diaspora and Iberian Empires

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Whereas there is no consensus among contemporary scholars in defining the Converso diaspora and its criteria of belonging, most of them highlighted its geographical, economic, cultural and political dependence on early modern Iberian empires.
Claude B. Stuczynski
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Nathaniel Culverwell's stoic theory of common notions

open access: yesThe Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract This article takes a closer look at the theory of knowledge developed by Nathaniel Culverwell in his 1652 Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature. Based on Culverwell's endorsement of Edward Herbert of Cherbury against Plato and Aristotle, his critical reception of René Descartes, and his contributions to a controversy between ...
Mogens Lærke
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Faith in the Marketplace: Christian Legal Narratives and the Refusal to Serve Gay Customers

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In June 2023, the US Supreme Court in 303 Creative v. Elenis held that an anti‐discrimination statute could not force a Christian business owner to provide certain business services to gay people. The decision has created a slew of legal and social uncertainties, which require a deeper investigation of the contemporary conflict between the gay
Mantas Grigorovicius
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Meinongian Theories of Perception

open access: yesTheoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Most assume that the bad cases of illusion and hallucination are not perceptions. What I call ‘Meinongian Theories of Perception’ disagree: in the good case, I stand in a relation to existing objects—Macbeth perceives the existing dagger—whilst in the bad case, I stand in a relation to non‐existent objects—Macbeth perceives the non‐existent ...
Romanos P. Koutedakis
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