Author

Publication

2007 - BRILL

Language

English

Word Count

74,500 words, Guess

Page Count

298 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139789047421962
  • ISBN-109047421965
  • Better World Books9789047421962
  • Open LibraryOL29569917M

Classifications

  • LCCB738.K56G67 2007
  • LCCB

Description

"Absolute Beginners adopts a variety of approaches to study the Absolute as the ultimate source of knowledge in medieval philosophy. From a historical perspective, it examines a forerunner of Spinoza's departure from the Absolute in the Ethics: the doctrine of God as a first object in the generation of knowledge, as formulated by Henry of Ghent (died 1293) and Richard Covington (died 1330). Methodologically, it offers a case-study in the construction of an historical object, calling into question the self-evident and spontaneous way in which elements in the history of philosophy - its concepts and theories - are presented as primary givens. In a systematic sense, this study includes a reflection on structural indeterminacy, as pervading and stabilizing the differential system of exclusions which makes up the doctrine of God as a first object in the generation of knowledge."--Jacket.

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  • Absolute BeginnersBRILL2007

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