Introduction: Nosce Te Ipsum -- Imagining Europe -- Ancient thought and the Medieval synthesis I -- Ancient thought and the Medieval synthesis II -- Borrowed syntheses-Medieval Muslim and Jewish thought -- Post-Medieval syntheses -- The spatial Reformation -- Humanism and the So…
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"This book explores the main currents of European thought between 1350 and 1992, which it approaches in two main ways; culture as produced by place and the progressive unmooring of thought from previously set religious and philosophical boundaries. Offering a comprehensive intro…
"This book explores the main currents of European thought between 1350 and 1992, which it approaches in two main ways; culture as produced by place and the progressive unmooring of thought from previously set religious and philosophical boundaries. Offering a comprehensive intro…
In the Corollaries on Place and Void, Philoponus attacks Aristotle's conception of place as two-dimensional, adopting instead the view more familiar to us that it is three-dimensional, inert and conceivable as void. Philoponus' denial that velocity in the void would be infinite …