3 résultats pour "boethius"
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Boethius of Dacia
the history of philosophy. 2 Ethics, theory of knowledge and science Boethius was an epistemological optimist. Real knowledge, even some knowledge about the First Cause, he thought, is within human grasp. The full realization of human nature, happiness, is the philosopher's life in which all lower powers are directed towards the supreme activity, the contemplation of truth, and of the First Truth in particular. By contrast, the layman's uncontemplative life is only quasi-human. As was commo...
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Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus
court of Charlemagne, became a standard textbook in schools and was set on the way to being one of the greatest books of medieval culture, especially popular among laymen. Boethius' earlier works have been the preserve of more specialized readers, especially concerned with the history of ancient philosophy. His stated original intention was to educate the West by translating all of Plato and Aristotle into Latin and to supply explanatory commentaries on many of their writings. That was too amb...
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Aristotelianism, medieval
are introduced by the interaction of Aristotle with Jewish, Christian and Islamic religious thinking. The Christianambiguities are perhaps the most familiar. Almost all of the Christian Aristotelians in the Latin West were members ofthe clergy. Most spent their professional lives teaching and writing, not the liberal arts or philosophy, but Christiantheology. It remains controversial whether or to what extent we can find an autonomous or even a textuallydistinguishable Aristotelian p...