Absolute Beginners: Der Mittelalterliche Beitrag Zu Einem Ausgang Vom Unbedingten (Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters): 93 - Hardcover

Goris, Wouter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004162151 ISBN 13: 9789004162150

Publisher: Brill, 2007

Synopsis

Absolute Beginners adopts a variety of approaches to study the Absolute as the ultimate source of knowledge in medieval philosophy. From a historical perspective, it examines a forerunner of Spinoza's departure from the Absolute in the Ethics: the doctrine of God as a first object in the generation of knowledge, as formulated by Henry of Ghent (+1293) and Richard Conington (+1330). Methodologically, it offers a case-study in the construction of an historical object, calling into question the self-evident and spontaneous way in which elements in the history of philosophy - its concepts and theories - are presented as primary givens. In a systematic sense, this study includes a reflection on structural indeterminacy, as pervading and stabilizing the differential system of exclusions which makes up the doctrine of God as a first object in the generation of knowledge.

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Wouter Goris, Ph.D. (1997) in Philosophy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, taught at the Thomas-Institut in Cologne and is currently Professor of Ancient, Patristic and Medieval Philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He has published extensively on medieval ontology including his work Einheit als Prinzip und Ziel: Versuch über die Einheitsmetaphysik des Opus tripartitum Meister Eckharts (Brill, 1997).

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004162151
• ISBN 13: 9789004162150
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 316