Boethius of Dacia (fl. c.1275)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sten Ebbesen
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
The Other ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Independent System ◽  
Christian Doctrine ◽  
Original Theory ◽  
Rational Understanding ◽  
Human Intellect ◽  
Main Strategy

Boethius developed an original theory of scientific knowledge designed to reconcile science with Christian doctrine without allowing one to determine the contents of the other. His main strategy was to consider each science as an independent system of axioms and theorems while also operating with a hierarchy of causes, the highest of which (God) is fundamentally unpredictable as to its operations. Boethius did, however, stress the powers of the human intellect and the possibility of reaching happiness through rational understanding; he vigorously objected to demands that natural science should adapt its axioms to the demands of Christian faith. This laid him open to suspicions of heresy. Boethius’ work on grammar is the most complete application of his ideas of how to construct a science.

scholarly journals ‘No One Can Serve Two Masters’: The Unity of Philosophy and Theology in Ricœur’s Early Thought

Open Theology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 320-331
Author(s):  
Barnabas Aspray
Keyword(s):  
Early Career ◽  
The Other ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Personal Distress ◽  
Christian Doctrine ◽  
Theological Discourse ◽  
Ex Nihilo ◽  
Doctrine Of Creation ◽  
Existentialist Philosophy ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract While the French philosopher Paul Ricœur is not usually thought of as an existentialist, during his early career he engaged deeply with existentialist thought, and published two articles on the relationship between existentialism and Christian faith. Ricœur’s attempts to relate philosophy and theology often led to great personal distress, which he occasionally referred to as “controlled schizophrenia,” in which he struggled to remain faithful to both philosophical and theological discourse without compromising one for the sake of the other. This essay first explores the influence of existentialist philosophy on Ricœur before surveying how Ricœur understood existentialism, and how in his view it transforms the relationship between philosophy and theology. It then shows how Ricœur is ultimately able to retain his “dual allegiance” to both discourses through active hope in how the Christian doctrine of creation ex nihilo testifies to their original and final unity.

scholarly journals AL-QUR’AN AND HUMAN MIND: THE FACTS OF SCIENCE DEVELOPMENT

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 437
Author(s):  
Prima Aswirna ◽  
Reza Fahmi
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Water Cycle ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Human Reproduction ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Scientific Truth ◽  
Scientific Facts ◽  
Human Intellect

<p class="IIABSBARU">The scientific facts claimed in the Qur'an are found in different discorces, including in the terms of creation, astronomy, human reproduction, oceanology, embroyology, zoology, and water cycle. This article explored the miracle of al-Qur’an on scientific knowledge, especially natural science. Applying the approach of descriptive analysis, this study was able to demonstrate the empirical facts about the miracle of al-Qur’an that have been discovered the scientific truth in science. This article also showed the limitations of human intellect to understand all the realities existing in this world, as well as advocated human beings on the importance of returning dialoging al-Qur'an and intellect in exploring science.</p><p class="IIABSBARU" align="center">***</p>Fakta-fakta ilmiah yang diklaim dalam al-Qur'an ada di berbagai wacana, ter­masuk dalam hal ini penciptaan, astronomi, reproduksi manusia, oseanologi, embroyologi, zoologi, dan siklus air. Artikel ini ingin mengeksplorasi tentang keajaiban al-Qur'an dalam pengetahuan ilmiah, terutama dalam ilmu alam. Dengan pendekatan analisis deskriptif, penelitian ini mampu menunjukkan fakta empiris keajaiban al-Qur'an telah ditemukan kebenaran ilmiah dalam ilmu. Artikel ini juga menunjukkan keterbatasan kecerdasan manusia untuk me­mahami semua realitas yang ada di dunia ini. Serta mengajak kembali kepada manusia pentingnya untuk kembali mendialogkan antara al-Qur'an dan ke­cerdas­an dalam mengeksplorasi ilmu pengetahuan.

scholarly journals AL-QUR’AN AND HUMAN MIND: THE FACTS OF SCIENCE DEVELOPMENT

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 437
Author(s):  
Prima Aswirna ◽  
Reza Fahmi
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Water Cycle ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Human Reproduction ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Scientific Truth ◽  
Scientific Facts ◽  
Human Intellect

<p class="IIABSBARU">The scientific facts claimed in the Qur'an are found in different discorces, including in the terms of creation, astronomy, human reproduction, oceanology, embroyology, zoology, and water cycle. This article explored the miracle of al-Qur’an on scientific knowledge, especially natural science. Applying the approach of descriptive analysis, this study was able to demonstrate the empirical facts about the miracle of al-Qur’an that have been discovered the scientific truth in science. This article also showed the limitations of human intellect to understand all the realities existing in this world, as well as advocated human beings on the importance of returning dialoging al-Qur'an and intellect in exploring science.</p><p class="IIABSBARU" align="center">***</p>Fakta-fakta ilmiah yang diklaim dalam al-Qur'an ada di berbagai wacana, ter­masuk dalam hal ini penciptaan, astronomi, reproduksi manusia, oseanologi, embroyologi, zoologi, dan siklus air. Artikel ini ingin mengeksplorasi tentang keajaiban al-Qur'an dalam pengetahuan ilmiah, terutama dalam ilmu alam. Dengan pendekatan analisis deskriptif, penelitian ini mampu menunjukkan fakta empiris keajaiban al-Qur'an telah ditemukan kebenaran ilmiah dalam ilmu. Artikel ini juga menunjukkan keterbatasan kecerdasan manusia untuk me­mahami semua realitas yang ada di dunia ini. Serta mengajak kembali kepada manusia pentingnya untuk kembali mendialogkan antara al-Qur'an dan ke­cerdas­an dalam mengeksplorasi ilmu pengetahuan.

Med. Dr. Adalbert Wraný (1836–1902) – doctor of medicine, mineral collector and donor to the National Museum in Prague

2019 ◽  
Vol 188 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-146
Author(s):  
Martin Bohatý ◽  
Dalibor Velebil
Keyword(s):  
Natural Science ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
The Other ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Industrial Chemistry ◽  
Pediatric Pathology ◽  
Geological Institute ◽  
History Of ◽  
Precious Stones

Adalbert Wraný (*1836, †1902) was a doctor of medicine, with his primary specialization in pediatric pathology, and was also one of the founders of microscopic and chemical diagnostics. He was interested in natural sciences, chemistry, botany, paleontology and above all mineralogy. He wrote two books, one on the development of mineralogical research in Bohemia (1896), and the other on the history of industrial chemistry in Bohemia (1902). Wraný also assembled several natural science collections. During his lifetime, he gave to the National Museum large collections of rocks, a collection of cut precious stones and his library. He donated a collection of fossils to the Geological Institute of the Czech University (now Charles University). He was an inspector of the mineralogical collection of the National Museum. After his death, he bequeathed to the National Museum his collection of minerals and the rest of the gemstone collection. He donated paintings to the Prague City Museum, and other property to the Klar Institute of the Blind in Prague. The National Museum’s collection currently contains 4 325 samples of minerals, as well as 21 meteorites and several hundred cut precious stones from Wraný’s collection.

scholarly journals The Orderliness of Music from the Perspective of Complex Information Systems

Proceedings ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Shan Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
The Other ◽  
Western Music ◽  
Classical Period ◽  
20Th Century Music ◽  
Complex Information ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One

By applying the concept of natural science to the study of music, on the one hand, we can understand the structure of music macroscopically, on the other, we can reflect on the history of music to a certain extent. Throughout the history of western music, from the classical period to the 20th century, music seems to have gone from order to disorder, but it is still orderly if analyzed carefully. Using the concept of complex information systems can give a good answer in the essence.

scholarly journals Natural Science and Supernatural Thought Experiments

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 389
Author(s):  
James Robert Brown
Keyword(s):  
Natural Science ◽  
Thought Experiment ◽  
Thought Experiments ◽  
The Other ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Theological Thought

Religious notions have long played a role in epistemology. Theological thought experiments, in particular, have been effective in a wide range of situations in the sciences. Some of these are merely picturesque, others have been heuristically important, and still others, as I will argue, have played a role that could be called essential. I will illustrate the difference between heuristic and essential with two examples. One of these stems from the Newton–Leibniz debate over the nature of space and time; the other is a thought experiment of my own constructed with the aim of making a case for a more liberal view of evidence in mathematics.

The Influence of Roman Law

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald R. Kelley
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
The Other ◽  
Roman Law ◽  
Christian Doctrine ◽  
The Law ◽  
Civil Science

Centuries of Roman jurisprudence were assembled in the great Byzantine collection, the Digest, by Tribonian and the other editors. Roman law became more formal when during the Renaissance of the twelfth century it came to be taught in the first universities, starting with Bologna and the teaching of Irnerius. The main channels of expansion were through the Glossators and post-Glossators, who commented on the main texts and on later legislation by the Holy Roman Emperors, which included “feudal law,” but also by notaries and other proto-lawyers. Christian doctrine also became part of the “Roman” tradition, and canon and civil law were taught together in the universities as “civil science.” According to the ancient Roman jurist Gaius, “all the law which we use pertains either to persons or to things or to actions,” three categories that exhaust the external human condition—personality, reality, and action. In the nineteenth century, the study of Roman law lost its ideological power and became part of philology and history, at least so concludes James Whitman.

On the Bases and Possibilities of a Scientific Psychology and Classification in Mental Disease

1899 ◽  
Vol 45 (189) ◽  
pp. 257-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Lloyd Andriezen
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Mental Disease ◽  
Biological Science ◽  
The Other ◽  
General Psychology ◽  
Scientific Psychology ◽  
Herbert Spencer ◽  
Recent Developments

Since the middle of the nineteenth century psychology has gradually come to be recognised as a branch of biological science. This is due to the influence of the works of Darwin and Herbert Spencer, of the Clinical and Neurological School of Meynert, Golgi, Cajal, Flechsig, and others, and recent developments in the Psychometric School of Fechner and Wundt on the other. The Alienistic School can render powerful aid to this movement; and though there are indications of the current in the proper direction, as shown more particularly in the work of Mercier (1) and Bevan Lewis (2), the end, however, cannot as yet be said to have been achieved, nor the movement to have become general. Psychology still lingers on the borderland of metaphysics; it has not yet been established on the firm rock of natural science. And while it thus lingers progress in knowledge is slow and restricted.

scholarly journals historiografía apologética en el Discurso Contra los griegos de Taciano el Sirio.

Daímon ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 171-184
Author(s):  
Julián Barenstein
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
High Culture ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Christian Apologetics ◽  
The One

En este trabajo nos proponemos poner de manifiesto un aspecto poco estudiado del Contra los griegos de Taciano (circa 170); nos referimos a la introducción del discurso historiográfico en la apologética cristiana. En cumplimiento de nuestro objetivo daremos cuenta, por una parte, del carácter idiosincrático de la producción de este apologista en el contexto de la defensa de la fe cristiana en el s. II y analizaremos, por otra, lo que de acuerdo con nuestra línea de investigación es lo más relevante de su controvertido modus cogitandi: el rechazo de la Filosofía como via regia de acceso al Cristianismo para las gentes de alta cultura y la introducción del discurso historiográfico como garantía de veracidad. In this paper we propose to highlight a little studied aspect of the Discourse Against the Greeks of Taciano (circa 170); we refer to the introduction of historiographical discourse in Christian apologetics. In fulfillment of our objective we will give account, on the one hand, of the idiosyncratic character of the production of this apologist in the context of the defense of the Christian faith in the s. II and we will analyze, on the other hand, what according to our line of research is the most relevant of his controversial modus cogitandi: the rejection of Philosophy as a way of access to Christianity for people of high culture and the introduction of the historiographical discourse as a guarantee of truthfulness.

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