Abelard

Informationen zum Autor Jeffrey E. Brower is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University, Indiana. Klappentext A comprehensive study of Abelard's life and work not only in philosophy and theology but also in literature. Zusammenfassung Peter Abelard (1079–1142) is one of the greatest philosophers of the medieval period. Although best known for his views about universals and his dramatic love affair with Heloise, he made a number of important contributions in metaphysics, logic, philosophy of language, mind and cognition, philosophical theology, ethics, and literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Life, milieu, and intellectual contexts John Marenbon; 2. Literary works Winthrop Wetherbee; 3. Metaphysics Peter O. King; 4. Philosophy of language Klaus Jacobi; 5. Logic Christopher J. Martin; 6. Mind and cognition Kevin Guilfoy; 7. Trinity Jeffrey E. Brower; 8. Sin, grace, and redemption Thomas Williams; 9. Ethics William E. Mann; 10. Influence Yukio Iwakuma.

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• Authors: Jeffrey Brower, Jeffrey E. Brower, Kevin Guilfoy
• Assisted by: Jeffrey Brower (Editor), Jeffrey E. Brower (Editor), Brower Jeffrey E. (Editor), Kevin Guilfoy (Editor), Guilfoy Kevin (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2004
• EAN: 9780521775960
• ISBN: 978-0-521-77596-0
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Philosophy; Cambridge companion; Cambridge Companions to Philos; Cambridge Companions to Philosophy; Cambridge Companions to Philos; Cambridge companion
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Medieval, History of Western philosophy, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600, Medieval Western philosophy