Drawing on the latest European Research on Meister Eckhart since 1970, the volume provides a comprehensive rereading of the Life, Works, Career, Trial of Meister Eckhart.

Ce volume dégage les racines médiévales des thèmes principaux de la philosophie contemporaine. Il montre les conséquences de la distinctio formalis sur les notions médiévales et modernes de la causalité, par là sur celles de l'esse objectivum et du signifié propositionnel dans le connaître humain. This book examines the medieval origin of certain themes in modern and contemporary philosophy. It shows the consequences of the distinctio formalis on medieval and modern conceptions of causality, including those of the esse objectivum and (...) on the complexe significatum . (shrink)

Marjorie Grene's essays dealing with twentieth-century European philosophy are, as she informs the reader, "written from something like 'a continental' point of view." She also informs the reader that these collected essays, written at various times between 1938 and 1974, are a form of philosophical journalism. If it is journalism, then, it is journalism of a high quality. The book may also serve as a kind of record of the itinerarium mentis of a very lively and perceptive reader of philosophy (...) in both continental and in modern American forms. (shrink)

This book on some of the important thinkers in the history of Platonism originated in a symposium held at the University of Notre Dame’s Irish Studies Center, Dublin, in 2002. The editors introduce the volume with a question: “What do philosophers mean by ‘idealism’?” The essays that follow can be divided into three sections: ancient to late ancient, Eriugena and Islamic Thought , and Berkeley and Modern Philosophy.The first three papers deal with Plato and Platonism. Vasilis Politis argues for a (...) kind of non-subjective idealism based on a reading of Sophist 248c–249d. This is based on a recognition of reason as central to Plato’s concerns. In the second paper, John Dillon writes about “The Platonic Forms as Gesetze” and asks, “Could Paul Natorp Have Been Right?” By a judicious use of the German text, and with reference to the 2004 translation of Natorp’s Ideenlehre , Dillon presents Natorp’s case for understanding the Forms as “systems for ordering knowledge, that they are nothing other than ‘laws of thought’.” Dillon notes the texts that must be overlooked to arrive at this interpretation. Yet, he acknowledges Natorp’s good knowledge of Plato and finds. (shrink)

This book is a sequel to the same author's Early Medieval Philosophy. An Introduction, which clearly reflects the author's great expertise in early medieval thought.