Pico Della Mirandola - New Essays

Informationen zum Autor M. V. Dougherty is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Ohio Dominican University. His research in the history of philosophy includes work on the thinking of Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle, René Descartes, as well as Pico della Mirandola. Klappentext A comprehensive presentation of the philosophical work of the fifteenth-century Renaissance thinker Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. Zusammenfassung Provides a comprehensive presentation of the philosophical work of the fifteenth-century Renaissance thinker Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. In essays specially commissioned for this book! a distinguished group of scholars presents the central topics and texts of Pico's literary output. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction M. V. Dougherty; 2. Pico on the relationship of rhetoric and philosophy Jill Kraye; 3. Pico, theology, and the church Paul Richard Blum; 4. Pico della Mirandola's philosophy of religion Michael Sudduth; 5. The birth day of Venus: Pico as platonic exegete in the Commento and the Heptaplus Michael J. B. Allen; 6. Three precursors to Pico della Mirandola's Roman disputation and the question of human nature in the Oratio M. V. Dougherty; 7. Pico on magic and astrology Sheila J. Rabin; 8. Pico's quest for all knowledge Carl N. Still; 9. A philosophical life Francesco Borghesi.

Product details

• Authors: M. V. Dougherty
• Assisted by: M. V. Dougherty (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.06.2014
• EAN: 9781107415171
• ISBN: 978-1-107-41517-1
• No. of pages: 238
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Medieval, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy, Medieval Western philosophy