Renaissance Thought and Its Sources

Name: Renaissance Thought and Its Sources
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ISBN: 9780231045131

ISBN-10: 0231045131

ISBN-13: 9780231045131

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Authors: Paul Oskar Kristeller, Michael Mooney

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Renaissance Thought and Its Sources presents the fruits of an extraordinary lifetime of scholarship: a systematic account of major themes in Renaissance philosophy, theology, science, and literature, show in their several settings. Here, in some of Paul Oskar Kristeller's most comprehensive and ambitious writings, is an exploration of the distinctive trends and concepts of the Renaissance, grounded in detailed historical investigation. All of these fourteen essays were originally delivered as lectures. Part One identifies the classical sources of Renaissance thought and exposes its essential physiognomy, indicating its humanist, Aristotelian, and Platonist traditions. The next two parts…

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List price: $50.00
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 4/15/1979
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 347
Size: 0.62" wide x 0.91" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Paul Oskar Kristellar is Frederick J.E. Woodbridge Professor Emeritus of philosophy at Columbia University.Michael Mooney is Associate Provost at Columbia University.



Editor's Preface


Introduction



Renaissance Thought and Classical Antiquity


Introduction



The Humanist Movement



The Aristotelian Tradition



Renaissance Platonism



Paganism and Christianity



Renaissance Thought and the Middle Ages



Humanism and Scholasticism in the Italian Renaissance



Renaissance Philosophy and the Medieval Tradition



Renaissance Thought and Byzantine Learning



Italian Humanism and Byzantium



Byzantine and Western Platonism in the Fifteenth Century



Renaissance Concepts of Man






The Dignity of Man



The Immortality of the Soul



The Unity of Truth



Philosophy and Rhetoric From Antiquity to the Renaissance


Introduction



Classical Antiquity



The Middle Ages



The Renaissance


Notes


Index