A Question on the Subject of Metaphysics in Which Is Included the Question Whether Metaphysics Is a Science

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-143
Author(s):  
Giacomino Malafossa from Barge ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Strict Sense ◽  
Scientific Object ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Subject ◽  
University Of Padua ◽  
The University

Giacomino Malafossa’s A Question on the Subject of Metaphysics, in Which Is Included the Question Whether Metaphysics Is a Science, from 1551 (first printed 1553) consists of two parts. In the first part, the author discusses various positions regarding the subject matter of metaphysics. In particular, he debates which conditions any scientific object must fulfill, the most important one being that an object of a science virtually contains all of its truths. Since being as being virtually contains whatever is considered in metaphysics, this is the adequate object of metaphysics. In the second part, the author addresses the problem that the transcendental properties of being are not truly demonstrable. This endangers the status of metaphysics as a science in the strict Aristotelian sense. The author discusses various Scotist solutions to this problem. His own solution is that metaphysics indeed is a science in the strict sense, but only when it considers God, not when it considers being as being, thus unwittingly challenging Duns Scotus’s own idea that metaphysics is a “transcending science” because of its consideration of being and its transcendental properties. Malafossa’s Quaestio is an important example of the metaphysical discourse at the University of Padua in the sixteenth century.

Scotist Metaphysics in Mid-Sixteenth Century Padua Giacomino Malafossa from Barge’s A Question on the Subject of Metaphysics

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-107
Author(s):  
Claus A. Andersen ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Critical Reception ◽  
Italian Renaissance ◽  
Strict Sense ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
The Subject ◽  
University Of Padua ◽  
The University

For more than four decades around the middle of the sixteenth century, Giacomino Malafossa from Barge († 1563) held the Scotist chair of metaphysics at the University of Padua. In his A Question on the Subject of Metaphysics, in Which Is Included the Question, Whether Metaphysics Is a Science, he developed a remarkable stance on the subject matter of metaphysics. Metaphysics has two objects: being qua being and God. However, only when it deals with the latter object can it be said to be a science in a strict sense. The reason is that the strict Aristotelian notion of science presupposes that the object of any science has demonstrable properties, which is the case with God, but not with being as being. Although being qua being does have certain properties, namely the transcendentals, these cannot be truly demonstrated. Malafossa’s Quaestio bears witness both to the clash between Averroism and Scotism at the Italian Renaissance universities and to the complexity of the Scotist tradition itself. This introductory article highlights Malafossa’s sources and traces the critical reception of his views among later Scotist authors.

Kantiana of “Voprosy filosofii”

2021 ◽  
pp. 197-209
Author(s):  
Ondrej Marchevsky ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Editorial Boards ◽  
Thematic Units ◽  
The Status ◽  
Academic Philosophy ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Creative Environment

The paper can be seen as a response to the 1994 challenge formulated by A.I. Abramov in his work Kant in Russian Spiritual-Academic Philosophy, where he emphasizes the need to examine reflections on Immanuel Kant’s legacy in var­ious Russian academic and intellectual environments. This study thus joins the existing ones that have covered the dominant tendencies of Russian Kantian studies in such important environments as, for example, academies or journals as Kant Studien, Problems of Philosophy and Psychology and their editorial boards. The paper focuses on one of the journal environments – Problems of Phi­losophy – and it responds to the status quo, i.e., to the fact that this important and still living creative environment has not been the subject of a systematic review in the context of the study of Kant’s creative legacy. The paper is not an overview or chronological summary of works but it uses the approach of subject-thematic analysis to reveal the main pillars of the interest in Kant. The author identifies thematic units, areas, and contexts that become the subject matter of critical and creative interest of the authors in this philosophical journal and within them he tries to bring a closer look at particular works that deserve further evaluation.

scholarly journals Post-Reformation Reformed sources and children

2008 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
A.C. Neele
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Protestant Reformation ◽  
Significant Interest ◽  
The Subject

This article suggests that the topic “children” received considerable attention in the post-Reformation era – the period of CA 1565-1725. In particular, the author argues that the post-Reformation Reformed sources attest of a significant interest in the education and parenting of children. This interest not only continued, but intensified during the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation when much thought was given to the subject matter. This article attempts to appraise the aim of post-Reformation Reformed sources on the topic “children.”

1. The status of sociology

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Steve Bruce
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Physical Sciences ◽  
Fundamental Limits ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Regular Patterns

‘The status of sociology’ asks whether sociology can be scientific. Some forms of sociological research follow the models of the physical sciences, but there are some fundamental limits to such imitation. We need to appreciate the differences between the subject matter of the natural and the human sciences. People think and feel. They act as they do, not because they are bound to follow unvarying rules but because they have beliefs, values, interests, and intentions. For the sociologist there is always a further step to take. Our notion of explanation does not stop at identifying regular patterns in social action.

scholarly journals On the issue of the transformation of the psychological portrait of the modern Russian youth in a socio-cultural context (the case of questioning target students’ groups in Don State Technical University)

2020 ◽  
Vol 175 ◽  
pp. 15032
Author(s):  
Tamara Olenich ◽  
Andrei Mekushkin ◽  
Natalia Mamchits ◽  
Natia Ugrekhelidze
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Place Of Residence ◽  
State Technical ◽  
Elite Education ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
To Receive

With the accordance to the formation of the psychological portrait of contemporary Russian youth in the sociocultural space, the author’s hypothesis is that in the modern conditions of sociocultural communicative competence, the sociocultural space becomes a necessary aspect in the development of the socialization of the Russian students. The object of the study is the Russian student youth, and the subject is an analysis of the nature of the influence of sociocultural communicative competence on the Russian youth socialization. Such social factors as: the influence of the place of residence on the level of student competence; the influence of place of residence on the level of claims; the influence of parental capital on the level of academic performance and level of professional claims; the effect of income on competence and the effect of income on professional claims, are necessary elements for students to achieve their goal, namely to receive an elite education, based on the base they have. The results showed that the higher education of the parents and the status of the university they graduated from creates a more favorable ground for the successful career of their children. Personal experience of parents determines the ability to choose the level of professional claims of students.

Ut musica poesis: Music and Poetry in France in the Late Sixteenth Century

1994 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 1-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howard Mayer Brown
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
World Order ◽  
Pierre De Ronsard ◽  
Ideal Form ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Crucial Part

By praising rulers, whose magnificence formed a crucial part of the world order, Pierre de Ronsard and his French colleagues in the second half of the sixteenth century often depicted the world not as it was but as it ought to be. This idea informs Margaret McGowan's book on ideal forms in the age of Ronsard, in which she explores the ways poets and painters extolled the virtues and the theatrical magnificence of perfect princes following the Horatian dictum ut pictura poesis: as is painting so is poetry. McGowan demonstrates the virtuosity of the painters and poets of the sixteenth century in shaping their hymns of praise from the subject matter and ideals of ancient Greece and Rome by following Horace's advice to regard paintings as mute poems and poems as speaking pictures. McGowan shows how artists and intellectuals pursued their goals by creating four kinds of ideal form: iconic forms, sacred images derived from classical literary sources offering princes some guarantee of immortality; triumphal forms that evoke the heroic imperial past; ideal forms of beauty to be found in contemplating the beloved; and dancing forms that mirror rituals of celebration. McGowan claims that such ideal forms were intended to enlighten the ruler himself as much as they celebrated his grandeur in the eyes of others.

Singapore Corporations Go Transnational

1986 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 336-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lim Mah Hui ◽  
Teoh Kit Fong
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Transnational Corporations ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Subject

The title of this paper is influenced by that of Lee Soo Ann's book, Singapore Goes Transnational. However, the subject matter of this paper though related, is quite different. By Singapore “going transnational”, Lee was referring to how Singapore's economy became dominated by foreign transnational corporations (TNCs). During that process and period, local Singaporean companies declined in importance. This paper deals with the resurgence of Singaporean companies to the extent that some have spread their operations to other countries and have attained the status of TNCs.

Latin in Early Poland and An Attic Drama of the Renaissance Period

1953 ◽  
Vol 22 (65) ◽  
pp. 85-87
Author(s):  
T. Hudson-Williams
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Official Language ◽  
Whole School ◽  
The People ◽  
Renaissance Period ◽  
The Status ◽  
Young Queen ◽  
Polish Language ◽  
The University ◽  
The Church

The Polish nation adopted Christianity in A.D. 966, but the new faith was very slow in reaching the people, as the services were all in Latin and the clergy were unacquainted with the language of the country. Even the elementary schools were conducted in Latin. The pupils sat in a hut on the bare earthen floor in summer and on bundles of straw in winter.Except in the institutions in which the instructors were immigrant Germans, where the instruction was given in German, Latin was the only language used in the schools of Poland. The Latin Psalter was the only book in the whole school; the pupils had no exercise books; but they managed to learn some grammar and arithmetic and sang the Latin songs used in the services of the Church. In these circumstances education could make but little progress. Before the end of the thirteenth century the higher clergy issued an edict forbidding the appointment of any person who did not know the Polish language, and enforced the decree with all the authority of the Church; but, as in other European countries, Latin was the official language of the Polish University. The Academy of Cracow was founded by Casimir the Great and raised to the status of a University in 1400, richly endowed by the young Queen Jadwiga, who at her death bequeathed to it all her jewels.In the sixteenth century the University attained great fame, and Germans, Czechs, Hungarians, and Swiss came in numbers to hear the lectures of the professors, especially the great astronomer Copernicus.

scholarly journals Late Gothic (Antwerp) Mannerism: its Origins, Nature and Decline (a Review of the Literature)

2021 ◽  
pp. 83-94
Author(s):  
Stefaniia Demchuk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Focal Points ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Comprehensive Review ◽  
Religious Context ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Unique Style

This essay does not strive to give a comprehensive review of literature on Antwerp Mannerism, but rather to summarize the focal points of discussions and to outline key roadmaps for further studies. The majority of scholars consider Antwerp Mannerism as a late Gothic style influenced by Italian Quattrocento. Its genesis, however, remains a subject of hot debates. If Hoogewerff argued on the German origins, Vandenbroeck attributed it to an inflow of provincial artists. Whatever were the origins, Expressionist shapes were not inherent to the early Netherlandish painting and the attempt to fuse them with ‘realism’ of the Flemish Primitives seemed a revolutionary breakthrough following the pictorial crisis of the 1480s. Despite a rift in chronology, Antwerp Mannerism has irrefutable similarities with the later Italian Mannerism. Thus exploration of the intellectual and religious context of early sixteenth-century Antwerp art similar to Max Dvořák’s approach can be another direction for further research of the Italian and Spanish Mannerism. The subject matter of Antwerp Mannerist art, too, remains largely unexplored. Dan Ewing’s breakthrough essay showed that the changes in iconography (such as reinvention of the well-known subject) could mark shifts in identity. By no means they are merely ‘anecdotic’ as Paul Philippot stated. What subjects were popular beyond the Adoration of the Magi and why? Were there any secular subjects? How did the iconography of Antwerp art reflect the intersection of different Netherlandish schools of art? How did later artists incorporate the pictorial inventions of the Antwerp Mannerists? Finding an answer to these and similar questions can provide a rich context for further studies on this ‘contrived’ but unique style.

scholarly journals ФИЗИЧКА И МОРАЛНА КУЛТУРА: ИСПИТИВАЊЕ ОСЕТЉИВОСТИ СТУДЕНАТА ФАКУЛТЕТА СПОРТА И ФИЗИЧКОГ ВАСПИТАЊА НА ЕТИЧКА ПИТАЊА СТРУКЕ

TEME ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1185
Author(s):  
Miloš Marković ◽  
Predrag Krstić
Keyword(s):  
Total Sample ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Physical Culture ◽  
Ethical Theories ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Moral Attitudes ◽  
The University

The subject of this research was to determine the status of moral values among participants in the area of physical culture, as well as, in a wider sense, the desirability of introducing an ethical dimension into their education. Some of the fundamental ethical theories have been put into the function of experimental verification of their reception and application on a sample of students from the University of Belgrade’s Faculty of Sport and Physical Education. The goal of this research was to determine the students’ moral attitudes. To that purpose a questionnaire has been constructed and a research has been conducted on a total sample of 516 respondents. Research results have shown that there are certain differences between the consideration shown towards the moral aspects of physical culture between male and female students.

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