Luis M. Girón-Negrón. Alfonso de la Torre's Visión Deleytable: Philosophical Rationalism and the Religious Imagination in Fifteenth-Century Spain. Leiden: Brill, 2001. xvi, 306 pp.

AJS Review ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 397-399
Author(s):  
Norman Roth
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Doctoral Dissertation ◽  
Jewish Literature ◽  
Philosophical Work ◽  
Philosophical Discussion ◽  
Religious Imagination ◽  
Jewish Philosophy ◽  
Crown Prince ◽  
Amount Of Reading

Alfonso de la Torre (ca.1417–60), a person of somewhat obscure background, wrote Visión delectable de la filosofía artes liberales, metafísica y filosofía moral (or Visión deleytable as Girón-Negrón insists) ca. 1440 at the urging of the prior of Navarre, who was close to the crown prince Carlos de Viana. An unusual philosophical work for a Christian author, it does not conform to standard Scholastic doctrine, but is clearly dependent to a very great extent on the Guide for the Perplexed (Moreh nevukhim) of Maimonides. As such, the work, and this detailed analysis of it, is of particular interest to students of Jewish philosophy. At the outset, let it be said that Girón-Negrón has done a thorough and brilliant job in this book, a revision of his doctoral dissertation. He was aided by Jewish advisors in understanding and translating Hebrew texts, but one assumes that, as is the case with many Spanish scholars, his knowledge of Arabic is his own. He also has done an extensive amount of reading in secondary Jewish literature. (There are some errors, nevertheless; e.g., the philosopher Abraham Bivagch, not “Bibago,” did not engage in a “philosophical discussion” with Juan II of Aragón; rather, it was with an unnamed Christian “sage,” and it was a polemical debate, not a philosophical discussion.)

The Boundaries of Knowledge: The Unity of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s Jewish Philosophy in Light of His Doctoral Dissertation

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 262-296
Author(s):  
Mark Smilowitz
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Dissertation ◽  
Dialectical Method ◽  
Religious View ◽  
Jewish Philosophy ◽  
Epistemological Pluralism ◽  
Philosophical Writings

Abstract Two philosophical positions adopted by Soloveitchik in his doctoral dissertation continued to inform his Jewish philosophical writings throughout his career. The first position, epistemological pluralism, stands behind Soloveitchik’s approach to the religious view of causality and repentance in his writings during the 1940s–1960s. It also grounds his consistent use of the dialectical method. The second position, the eternal mystery of the unknown, comes from the Marburg neo-Kantian Paul Natorp; this idea is a consistent thread throughout Soloveitchik’s writings and a foundation of his existentialist writings through the late 1970s. The conclusion suggests how these two positions might be related to one another.

scholarly journals Las rentas decimales del cabildo catedralicio de Cuenca a inicios del siglo XV (1400-1432) = Tithe Incomes of the Cuenca Cathedral Chapter at the Start of the Fifteenth Century (1400-1432)

2018 ◽  
pp. 455
Author(s):  
Ángel Martínez Catalán
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Fifteenth Century

El objetivo de este artículo es realizar una aproximación a la parte de los diezmos del obispado de Cuenca destinados al cabildo de la catedral, a comienzos del siglo XV. A través del análisis pormenorizado de la serie documental de libros de rentas de la Mesa Capitular, conservada en el Archivo Catedralicio de Cuenca, se intentará comprender qué usos y destinos realizó la institución para estas rentas. La administración y la financiación de las actividades desarrolladas por el capítulo serán los principales ámbitos en los que se empleen dichas partidas, quedando resumidos en dos términos utilizados en la época: el refitor y el vestuario. The objective of this article is to summarily study tithes of the bishopric of Cuenca that were destined for the cathedral chapter, at the beginning of fifteenth century. Through a detailed analysis of the libros de rentas (registry of incomes) of the capitular mensa that are found at the Archive of the Cathedral of Cuenca, we will attempt to identify for what uses and for which ends did this institution use these incomes. These incomes will be utilized primarily in the management and finance of the activities developed by the chapter, and can be summarized by two words used in this period: refitor and vestuario.

scholarly journals The Vanishing Ethics of Husbandry

2021 ◽  
pp. 203-221
Author(s):  
Paul B. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Animal Ethics ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
High Volume ◽  
Considerable Degree ◽  
Philosophical Work ◽  
Philosophical Discussion ◽  
Economic Rationale ◽  
Factory Farms

AbstractThe ethics of food production should include philosophical discussion of the condition or welfare of livestock, including for animals being raised in high volume, concentrated production systems (e.g. factory farms). Philosophers should aid producers and scientists in specifying conditions for improved welfare in these systems. An adequately non-ideal approach to this problem should recognize both the economic rationale for these systems as well as the way that they constrain opportunities for improving animal welfare. Recent philosophical work on animal ethics has been dominated by authors who not only neglect this imperative, but also defeat it by drawing on oversimplified and rhetorically overstated descriptions of the conditions in which factory farmed animals actually live. This feature of philosophical animal ethics reflects a form of structural narcissism in which adopting a morally correct attitude defeats actions that could actually improve the welfare of livestock in factory farms to a considerable degree.

Meilicha Dôra. Poems and Prose in Greek from Renaissance and Early Modern Europe

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mika Kajava ◽  
Tua Korhonen ◽  
Jamie Vesterinen
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Greek Language ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Greek Poetry ◽  
Modern Europe ◽  
Crown Prince ◽  
Vyacheslav Ivanov ◽  
Griechische Mythologie

Contains articles among others: Grigory Vorobyev, Theodore Gaza’s Translation between Diplomacy and Humanism. A List of European Countries in Pope Nicholas V's Letter to the Last Byzantine Emperor; Angelo de Patto, Uberto Decembrio’s Epitaph. A Fifteenth-century Greek-Latin Epigraph; Luigi-Alberto Sanchi, Guillaume Budé’s Greek manifesto. The Introductory Epistles of the Commentarii linguae Graecae (1529): Martin Steinrück, Rabelais' Quart livre and Greek language; Johanna Akujärvi, Neo-Latin Texts and Humanist Greek Paratexts. On Two Wittenberg Prints Dedicated to Crown Prince Erik of Sweden; Stefan Rhein, Die Griechischstudien in Deutschland und ihre universitäre Institutionalisierung im 16. Jahrhundert. Ein Überblick; Jochen Schultheiss, Profilbildung eines Dichterphilologen -Joachim Camerarius d.Ä als Verfasser, Übersetzer und Herausgeber griechischer Epigramme; Stefan Weise, Griechische Mythologie im Dienste reformatorischer Pädagogik: Zur Epensammlung Argonautica. Thebaica. Troica. Ilias parva von Lorenz Rhodoman (1588); Thomas Gärtner, Jonische Hexameter als Träger der norddeutschen Reformation; Marcela Slavíková, Γενεήν Βοίημος. Humanist Greek Poetry in the Bohemian Lands; Pieta van Beek, Ούλτραϊεκτείνων μέγα κύδος πότνια κούρη. Greek Eulogies in Honour of Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678); Janika Päll, German Neo-Humanism versus Rising Professionalism. Carmina Hellenica Teutonum by the Braunschweig Physician and PhiIheIIene Karl Friedrich Arend Scheller (1773-1842); Elena Ermolaeva, Three Greek Poems by the Neohumanist Vyacheslav Ivanov (1866-1949).

scholarly journals Luis M. Girón-Negrón, Alfonso de la Torre's "Visión deleytable". Philosophical rationalism and religious imagination in fifteenth century Spain. Brill, Leiden, 2000; 306 pp.

2004 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 549-551
Author(s):  
Martha Elena Venier
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Religious Imagination

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scholarly journals Glazed Red Clay Ceramic Ware with Images of Birds Excavated at Sudak (The Collection of the Museum Preserve of Sudak Fortress)

2021 ◽  
pp. 308-342
Author(s):  
Irina B. Teslenko ◽  
Vadim V. Mayko
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Ceramic Tile ◽  
Cultural Influence ◽  
Ceramic Production ◽  
Ceramic Ware ◽  
Red Clay ◽  
Glazed Ceramic ◽  
The One ◽  
First Time

This paper presents a detailed analysis of the collection of red clay glazed ceramic ware featuring images of birds from the excavations of Sudak and now residing in the Museum Preserve of Sudak Fortress. The publication comprises 45 open-shaped vessels and one ceramic tile. Imported artefacts mostly from the Byzantine circle comprise 22% of them and Crimean products form 78%. Many finds are published for the first time. The products of the Byzantine circle dating back from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries mostly show a bird of the Accipitridae (probably eagle) and Columbidae. The dove is often depicted with palm branches and/or bunches of grapes which also have important meaning in Christianity. The dove most often occurred on the fourteenth- and fifteenth-century glazed ware ring of Crimean manufacture, where its image was probably associated with Christian symbols and Byzantine tradition. Original drawings of the birds demonstrate individual creativity of local craftsmen since there are many variants of such images. Some drawings allow the one to determine the breed of bird depicted by ceramic painters. Additionally, at the products of Crimean workshops represent at least four other species of birds, presumably swan, bustard, goose or duck, and heron or crane. The research undertaken allowed us to identify a few stylistic decorative series showing bird-shaped images, to discover the origin of artefacts, and to clarify the directions of various cultural influence on local ceramic production.

Baumgardt, David (1890–1963)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zeev Levy
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Studies ◽  
Traditional Religion ◽  
Philosophical Work ◽  
Systematic Inquiry ◽  
Jewish Scriptures ◽  
Jewish Philosophy ◽  
Ethical Significance ◽  
Great Stress ◽  
Moral Demands

Baumgardt’s early works dealt with the problem of modalities in the philosophies of Kant, Husserl and Meinong and with German philosophical romanticism, especially in the mystic Franz von Baader. Although he never engaged in systematic inquiry into Judaism or Jewish philosophy, he was fascinated by the Jewish religious legacy, and his philosophical reflections on Jewish issues were integral to his philosophical work. A secular Jew, he associated himself with the liberal trends within Judaism. The Jewish philosophers he most highly prized were Maimonides, Spinoza and Mendelssohn. The chief goal of his Jewish studies was to promote those beliefs in Judaism that are of ethical significance and to draw out the import of the moral demands found scattered throughout the ancient Jewish Scriptures. Baumgardt’s concern with ethics grew with his increasingly critical stance towards traditional religion. In that vein, he laid great stress on the distinction between knowledge and belief and on that between Jewish rituals and their underlying meaning.

Florenskii, Pavel Aleksandrovich (1882–1937)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Slesinski
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Doctoral Dissertation ◽  
Philosophical Work ◽  
Religious Philosophy ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
History Of

A figure of genius in the history of twentieth-century Russian religious philosophy, Florenskii did much to influence the directions of subsequent Russian thought, both within the Soviet Union and abroad in the Russian diaspora. Florenskii’s originality is most noticeable in his chief philosophical work, Stolp i utverzhdenie istiny (The Pillar and Foundation of Truth) (1914), a somewhat eclectic and romantic work in which he sets forth his basic tenets in epistemology and sophiology. The work, which was his doctoral dissertation, represents a decisive rejection of rationalist and Western-orientated religious philosophy and theology in favour of a more concrete and experiential methodology.

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