Philosophy in the Renaissance : an anthology.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blum, Paul Richard.

Contributor:

Snyder, James G.

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Renaissance.

Philosophy, Renaissance--Sources.

Genre:

Sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (395 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D. C. : Catholic University of America Press, 2022.

Summary:

"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 remained largely understudied by historians of philosophy and professional philosophers. This anthology aims to correct this by providing scholars and students of philosophy with representative translations of the most important philosophers of the Renaissance. Its purpose is to help readers appreciate philosophy in the Renaissance and its importance in the history of philosophy. The anthology includes translations from philosophers from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries, and it ranges from works on moral and political philosophy, to metaphysics, epistemology, and natural philosophy, thereby providing historians and students of philosophy with a sense for the nature, breadth, and complexity of philosophy in the Renaissance. Each translation is accompanied by an introduction by a historian of Renaissance philosophy, as well as select secondary sources, in order to encourage further study-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction | Paul Richard Blum and James G. Snyder

1. Ramón Llull (1232-1316): Felix, or the Book of Wonders | Edited by Paul Richard Blum

2. George Gemistos Pletho (c. 1360-1454): Commentary on Chaldaean Oracles | Edited by Jozef Matula

3. George of Trebizond (1396-1474/75): Comparison of Plato and Aristotle: God as the Absolutely First | Edited by John Monfasani

4. Basil Bessarion (c. 1403-1472): Against the Calumniator of Plato | Edited by Eva Del Soldato

5. Lorenzo Valla (1406/7-1457): Encomium of St. Thomas Aquinas | Edited by Paul Richard Blum

6. Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464): Compendium | Edited by Detlef Thiel

7. Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472): Theogenius | Edited by Timothy Kircher

8. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494): Spiritual Writings | Edited by Victor M. Salas

9. Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499): Letters | Edited by James G. Snyder

10. Pietro Pomponazzi (1462-1525): Exposition of Aristotle's First Book On the Parts of Animals | Edited by Tomáš Nejeschleba

11. Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527: Discursus on Florentine Matters after the Death of Lorenzo de' Medici the Younger | Edited by Mark Jurdjevic

12. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486-1535): The Vanity of Arts and Sciences | Edited by Paul Richard Blum

13. Juan Luis Vives (1493-1540): Introduction to Wisdom | Edited by Paul Richard Blum

14. Philipp Melanchthon (1497-1560): Of Rational Ability, or Mind | Edited by Günter Frank and Gregory Graybill

15. Petrus Ramus (1515-1572): Dialectic | Edited by Robert Goulding

16. Bernardino Telesio (1509-1588): On Mind and Wisdom | Edited by Paul Richard Blum

17. Jacopo Zabarella (1533-1589): On the Constitution of Natural Science | Edited by Per Landgren

18. Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592): Of Experience | Edited by Paul Richard Blum.

19. Francesco Patrizi (1529-1597): On History | Edited by Paul Richard Blum

20. Giordano Bruno (1548-1600): On the Infinite, Universe and Worlds | Edited by Paul Richard Blum

21. Francisco Suárez (1548-1617): On Free-Will | Edited by Sydney Penner

22. Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639): Soul, Intellect, and Body | Edited by Elisabeth Blum

List of Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8132-3621-5

OCLC:

1380458905