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Salutati's Hercules: Biblical Hermeneutics for Pagan Books

Paul Richard Blum"Salutati's Hercules:Biblical Hermeneutics for Pagan Books"Now chapeter 4: "Coluccio Salutati: Hermeneutics of Humanity" in Philosophy of Religion in the Renaissance (Ashgate)

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Willensfreiheit und Recht bei Coluccio Salutati

De necessitate facimus voluntatem:Willensfreiheit und Recht bei Coluccio SalutatiPaul Richard Blum, Loyola College in MarylandDrei Problemkreise beschäftigten Coluccio Salutati[1], die ihn zu einem der...

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Ficino's Praise of Georgios Gemistos Plethon

Paul Richard BlumEt nuper Plethon – Ficino's Praise of Georgios Gemistos Plethon and His Rational ReligionDraftFor the published version see: Laus Platonici PhilosophiMarsilio Ficino and his...

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Epistemologie seit Ficino: Ist Erkenntnis ein mind-body-Problem?

Paul Richard BlumEpistemologie seit Ficino: Ist Erkenntnis ein mind-body-Problem?[Ungarisch: Episztemológia Ficino óta: test-lélek probléma-e a megismerés? [, in Gábor Boros (ed.), Reneszánsz...

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Review: Giordano Bruno. Philosopher/Heretic by Ingrid D. Rowland

The Hunter Turned Preyby Paul Richard BlumGiordano Bruno. Philosopher/Hereticby Ingrid D. RowlandFarrar, Straus and Giroux, x+335 pages, $ 27.00Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) is a litmus test for modern...

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Wonder and Wondering in the Renaissance

Wonder and Wondering in the RenaissanceElisabeth Blum and Paul Richard BlumNow available in:Michael Funk Deckard and Péter Losonczi (eds.), Philosophy Begins in Wonder. An Introduction to Early Modern...

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Epistemology and Cosmology in Neoplatonism: Is Cognition a Mind-Body-Problem?

Epistemology and Cosmology in Neoplatonism: Is Cognition a Mind-Body-Problem?By Paul Richard BlumOne philosophical approach to tell the “whole story of the whole cosmos for the whole person” requires...

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Acting versus Knowing

Acting versus KnowingBy Paul Richard Blum[Now pp. 147-151 in Das Wagnis, ein Mensch zu sein: Geschichte - Natur - Religion]When Jesus was brought to the Calvary and crucified between the two...

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Nicholas of Cusa and the Anthropology of Peace

Nicholas of Cusa and the Anthropology of PeaceBy Paul Richard Blum[Now published in Hans-Christian-Günther and Andrea Aldo Robiglio (eds.), The European Image of God and Man. A Contribution to the...

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Philosophy in Poetry: Francesco Petrarca

LOYOLA COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCESDistinguished Scholar Lecture SeriesPromoting conversation about scholarshipamong the diverse academic disciplines at Loyola CollegeFriday, Oct. 9 at 2 p.m.Sellinger...

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Book Review Sousedík

Stanislav Sousedík. Philosophie der frühen Neuzeit in den böhmischen Ländern. Stuttgart- Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog, 2009. 277 pp. EUR 158,00 ISBN 13 9783772824784Now published:...

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Book Review Keßler

Eckhard Keßler: Die Philosophie der Renaissance. Das 15. Jahrhundert. München: C. H. Beck, 2008. 270 S.Print version in Wolfenbütteler Renaissance-Mitteilungen 32 (2008-2010) 63-70.Endlich, so darf ich...

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Philosophy of Religion in the Renaissance

PrefacePhilosophy of religion is theology for nonbelievers. God is the highest concept that philosophy can possibly attain, therefore traditionally theology and philosophy converge on this concept. As...

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The Porphyrian Tree in 17th/18th Century Philosophy

God and Individuals: The Porphyrian Tree in 17th/18th Century Philosophy[In Italian in Rivista di filosofia neo-scolastica 91 (1999) 18-49 - plates are missing.]Introduction[1]One famous problem of so...

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Paul Richard Blum, ed. Philosophers of the RenaissanceTranslated by Brian McNeilPhilosophers of the Renaissance introduces readers to philosophical thinking from the end of the Middle Ages through the...

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Aims and Means of Early Jesuit Education

Cultivating Talents and Social ResponsibilityAims and Means of Early Jesuit EducationThe Prefect of the Inferior Classes "should by all means support the Rector in guiding and organizing our schools,...

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Coluccio Salutati und die Menschenwürde

Coluccio Salutati und die Menschenwürde Paul Richard BlumI. Coluccio Salutati (1331-1406) gilt als der erste Philosoph unter den italienischen Humanisten, sofern man unter Renaissance Humanismus die...

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Iconology as a Spiritual Exercise

Iconology as a Spiritual Exercise: The compositio loci in Ignatius of LoyolaPaul Richard Blum (Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore)When in 2004 Mel Gibson’s film The Passion of the Christ was hyped I...

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Contarini's Response to Pomponazzi

Gasparo Contarini's Response to Pomponazzi: A Methodic Antidote to Physicalism of the MindPaul Richard Blum (Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore; currently Palacky University Olomouc, Czech...

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Lull and Ignatius of Loyola Encounter Muslims

How to Deal with Muslims? Raymond Lull and Ignatius of LoyolaPaul Richard Blum, Loyola University Maryland  [Draft]As a small contribution to the investigation into the relationship between Christians...

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