Die Entdeckte Natur: Untersuchungen Zu Begrundungsversuchen Einer "Scientia Naturalis" Im 12. Jahrhundert (Studien Und Texte Zur Geistesgeschichte Des Mittelalters)
Die Entdeckte Natur: Untersuchungen Zu Begrundungsversuchen Einer "Scientia Naturalis" Im 12. Jahrhundert (Studien Und Texte Zur Geistesgeschichte Des Mittelalters)
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Book Description
This volume deals with the "discovery of nature" in the 12th century, focusing on its epistemological consequences for the speculative understanding of nature. A symbolic understanding is gradually replaced by an original interest, guided by reason alone, in the structure, constitution and process of the physical world. The growing knowledge of the "natural world" - which took the form of a systematic knowledge of causes - parallels attempts to establish a coherent "scientia naturalis". The main protagonists of the so-called "School of Chartres" characterize the goal of this "philosophia mundi" by reference to Timaeus 28A, as a search for the "legitimate cause and reason" of natural beings and structures. This incremental discovery of nature is linked to the development of physics as a science of nature; it leads to an "eveil metaphysique" (M.D. Chenu) and must be understood as one of the most important causes for the growing interest in Aristotle's writings (and in particular with the "libri naturales"). The discovery of nature in the 12th century thus provides an important philosophical impetus for the wider assimilitation of the Aristotelian corpus. At the same time, it leads to the development of an original and distinctively medieval model of natural philosophy.
Language Notes
Text: German
Die Entdeckte Natur: Untersuchungen Zu Begrundungsversuchen Einer "Scientia Naturalis" Im 12. Jahrhundert (Studien Und Texte Zur Geistesgeschichte Des Mittelalters),Andreas Speer,Brill Academic Publishers,9004103457,Epistemology,History,History: World,Interior Design - General,Philosophy Of Science,Science,Epistemology, theory of knowledge,History of ideas, intellectual history
Book Contents:
- Die Macht Der Weisheit: Das Bild Des Bischofs in Der Vita Augustini Des Possidius Und Anderen Spataniken Und Fruhmittelalterlichen Bischofsviten (Studies in the History of Christian Thought)
- Divine Power and Possibility in St. Peter Damian's De Divina Omnipotentia (Studien Und Texte Zur Geistesgeschichte Des Mittelalters)
- Early Indian Terracottas (Iconography of Religions Section X North America)
- Educational Strategies Among Muslims in the Context of Globalization: Some National Case Studies (Muslim Minorities, V. 3)
- Elusions of Control: Biblical Law on the Words of Women (Society of Biblical Literature Semeia Studies)
- Enriching The Sociological Imagination: How Radical Sociology Changed The Discipline (Studies in Critical Social Sciences, V. 1)
- Exporting the Catholic Reformation: Local Religion in Early-Colonial Mexico (Cultures, Beliefs and Traditions-Medieval and Early Modern Peoples, No 2)
- Fifteenth-Century Carthusian Reform: The World of Nicholas Kempf (Studies in the History of Christian Thought, Vol 49)
- Finnish Modern Design : Utopian Ideals and Everyday Realities, 1930-97
- Flowers and Leaves
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