Absolute Beginners
Subtitle: Der Mittelalterliche Beitrag Zu Einem Ausgang Vom Unbedingten (Studien Und Texte Zur Geistesgeschichte Des Mittelalters)
Edition: Bilingual edition
Publisher: Not Avail; Brill
Published: September 30, 2007
Language: ger; lat
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9789004162150
Subjects: Western philosophy; World history: c 500 to C 1500; History; History - General History; History: World; History & Surveys - Medieval; Medieval; Absolute, The; God; Knowledge, Theory of; To 1500
Description: "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 (died 1293) and Richard Covington (died 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."--Jacket.