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Boethius’un Felsefenin Tesellisi Adlı Eserinde Tanrısal Öngörü, Kader Ve Zaman İlişkisi The Relation Between Divine Providence, Fate and Time in Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy Özet Boethius’un Felsefenin Tesellisi (Consolatio... more
The feast day of St. Cecilia has assumed a prominent place on the calendars of many a musician throughout the Christian world, as a matter of devotion and an opportunity for artistic celebration. In London, a series of fortuitous events... more
PART I PRAYER (has only one question) Using the following from my " Ratio, Preces, Intuitus: Prayer's Mediation in Boethius' Consolation " [posted both on the Brightspace and Academia.edu] to outline what must be considered, explain the... more
Objections to the traditional view that God knows all of time eternally stand or fall on what one means by “eternally.” The widely held supposition, shared by both eternalists and those who oppose them, such as Open Theists, is that to... more
Tradução do comentario tomista ao "De Hebdomadibus" de Boécio.
The Old English Boethius boldly refashions in Anglo-Saxon guise a great literary monument of the late antique world, The Consolation of Philosophy. Writing from prison around 525 CE, Boethius turned to philosophy to transform his personal... more
Sottocapitolo del quinto capitolo dalla prima parte della Teologia del XII secolo di Marie Dominique Chenu, versione italiana di Paolo Vian. L'influenza del Timeo e del platonismo di Boezio nella Scuola di Chartres
A seminar lecture on the harmony between Plato and Aristotele in Boethius' «Consolation of Philosophy».
"On the Consolation of Philosophy" by Boethius (d. 524) was arguably the second most widely read book of the Middle Ages after the Bible. This two-volume study brings together for the first time all the surviving medieval musical... more
In these essays Peter Dronke looks at some of the relations between sacred and profane ideas and images, and Christian and pagan motifs, particularly in the early Middle Ages. The first two parts of the book dwell on aspects of (in the... more
There are certain thoughts - intimations - that will seem corny, or laughable, and therefore dismissed - and only seriously absorbed into the changing mind when felt, in the shelter of the quietly moving music of the soul. It is the... more
The Musica speculativa of Jean des Murs played a key role in renewing interest in the teaching of Boethius in the fourteenth century. We argue that this treatise is much more than a summary of the Boethian De institutione musica in... more
En la Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial se conserva un texto manuscrito que recoge una traducción al castellano del De institutione musica de Boecio. Tanto el tipo de letra empleado, como cuestiones... more
Convergences between Platonism and the Abrahamic Religions Parts 3, 4 & 5 Adapted for the De Li Non Aliud Reading Group 2021 Perspectives and Directions: Light illuminates but blinds eyes accustomed to darkness. Darkness defeats eyes... more
Henry Chadwick. Boethius, the Consolations of Music, Logic, Theology, and Philosophy. Clarendon Paperbacks. Oxford University Press 1981
Magister Jacobus (c.1260 - c.1340) had as his purpose the revaluation of the "musica speculativa" tradition in the 14th century. In his treatise "Speculum Musicae", he aimed to demonstrate how it could remain pertinent even when inserted... more
Introduzione al concetto di persona attraverso alcuni nodi teoretici elaborati dalla metafisica classica e dalla fenomenologia contemporanea
An introduction to Middle English Literature, including: discussion of the historical context from Anglo-Norman period to the 14th Century, the development of the Middle English language, the medieval synthesis of Judeo-Christian faith... more
It is not anachronistic to talk about the Self in medieval philosophy, but it is often a self without subjectivity. I look Boethius on the self as an ideal; Eriugena and the unknowable self; how Anselm avoids Augustinian ideas of... more
In 1887, Paul Tannery suggested that some ancient Pythagoreans defended a form of atomism against which Eleatic philosophers such as Zeno of Elea reacted. Later, Democritus and Leucippus on one hand, Plato on the other, developed... more
A smaller version of this paper was published as “Conversion: Ontological & Secular from Plato to Tom Jones”, Numero Cinq, V: 7, July 2014 and is posted elsewhere on Academia.edu. Its aim is to present some features of conversion as... more
Estudio sobre la proposición categórica asertórica, las inferencias inmediatas y el silogismo categórico. Texto fundamental para la historia de la lógica. Tan vigente hoy como cuando fue escrito. Con abundantes notas del traductor.... more
In several versions of " Introduction to Aristotle's Categories " (" The Isagoge ") we find very intriguing diagram of the "Tree of Porphyry". This diagram is closely linked with the square of opposition (logical square), natural tree... more
It has become a commonplace to say that the Latin Fathers did not really hold a doctrine of deification. Indeed, it is often asserted that Western theologians have neglected this teaching, that their occasional references to it are... more