Dissertations / Theses: 'Boethius'

1

Goris, Mariken. "Boethius in het Nederlands : studie naar en tekstuitgave van de Gentse Boethius (1485), boek II /." Hilversum : Verloren, 2000. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40096745p.

Full text

Abstract:

Proefschrift--Letteren--Nijmegen--Katholieke universiteit, 2000.
Contient l'éd. du livre II du "Gentse Boethius" (incunable daté de 1485, comprenant le texte latin de la "Consolation de la philosophie", accompagné d'une trad. et d'un commentaire en néerlandais moyen). La couv. porte comme nom d'auteur : "Mariken Goris" Bibliogr. p. [395]-402. Résumé en anglais.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

2

Sinigaglia, Edoardo <1996&gt. ""Old English Boethius" - a scholar digital edition." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/18407.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

3

Boethius, Thomsen Thörnqvist Christina. "Anicii Manlii Severini Boethii De syllogismo categorico critical edition with introduction, translation, notes, and indexes /." Gothenburg : University of Gothenburg, 2008. http://books.google.com/books?id=TsjWAAAAMAAJ.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

4

Beinhauer, Ruth. "Untersuchungen zu philosophisch-theologischen Termini in De Trinitate des Boethius /." Wien : VWGÖ, 1990. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35518587b.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

5

Arlig, Andrew W. "A study in early medieval mereology Boethius, Abelard, and pseudo-Joscelin /." Connect to this title online, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1110209537.

Full text

Abstract:

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2005.
Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xiii, 338 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 316-338). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

6

Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus Thomsen Thörnqvist Christina. "Anicii Manlii Severini Boethii De syllogismo categorico : critical edition with an introduction /." Göteborg : Univ, 2008. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=017144889&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

7

Boethius, Thomsen Thörnqvist Christina. "Anicii Manlii Severini Boethii Introductio ad syllogismos categoricos critical edition with introduction, commentary, and indexes /." Gothenburg : University of Gothenburg, 2008. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/302315713.html.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

8

Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius Thomsen Thörnqvist Christina. "Anicii Manlii Severini Boethii "Introductio ad syllogismos categoricos" : critical edition with introduction, commentary, and indexes /." Göteborg : Acta universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2008. http://opac.nebis.ch/cgi-bin/showAbstract.pl?u20=9789173466127.

Full text

Abstract:

Diss. Univ. Göteborg / Christina Thomsen Thörnqvist.
Lat. Originaltext mit engl. Einführung, Kommentar und Indices. Originaltitel: Introductio ad syllogismos categoricos / Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius. Bibliography: S. 169-172.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

9

Schlapkohl, Corinna. "Persona est naturae rationabilis individua substantia : Boethius und die Debatte über den Personbegriff /." Marburg : N. G. Elwert, 1999. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb372157241.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

10

Painter, William Ernest. "Authorship, Content and Intention in the West Saxon Consolation of Philosophy." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1988. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc501275/.

Full text

Abstract:

Boethius, a late Roman philosopher, composed his last work, De Consolatione Philosophiae, while in prison. His final effort crowned a lifetime of philosophical achievement, and the work was influential throughout the Middle Ages. Frequently translated, the Consolation was one of the books which was chosen by Alfred, a ninth century Anglo-Saxon king, for use in the rebuilding of his kingdom after the Danish invasions. Although intended for an audience which was heavily influenced by a lively pagan tradition, the book was re-interpreted during the Carolingian period to conform to a strict Christian standard. Alfred's own interpretation is indicative of this amalgamation of ancient learning in the milieu of an emerging European culture, as well as his own pragmatic personality.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

11

Albesano, Silvia. "Consolatio philosophiae volgare volgarizzamenti e tradizioni discorsive nel trecento italiano." Heidelberg Winter, 2005. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2765853&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

12

Lewis, Lucy Catherine. "British Boethianism 1380-1436." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.325659.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

13

Vollmer, Matthias. "Fortuna diagrammatica das Rad der Fortuna als bildhafte Verschlüsselung der Schrift "De consolatione philosophiae" des Boethius." Frankfurt, M. Berlin Bern Bruxelles New York Oxford Wien Lang, 2007. http://d-nb.info/993421725/04.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

14

Hehle, Christine. "Boethius in St. Gallen : die Bearbeitung der "Consolatio Philosophiae" durch Notker Teutonicus zwischen Tradition und Innovation /." Tübingen : M. Niemeyer, 2002. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41117907k.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

15

Stone-Davis, Férdia Judith. "Musical perception and the resonance of the material : with special reference to Immanuel Kant and Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.615139.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

16

Hawley, Kenneth Carr. "THE BOETHIAN VISION OF ETERNITY IN OLD, MIDDLE, AND EARLY MODERN ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF DE CONSOLATIONE PHILOSOPHI." UKnowledge, 2007. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/gradschool_diss/564.

Full text

Abstract:

While this analysis of the Old, Middle, and Early Modern English translations of De Consolatione Philosophiandamp;aelig; provides a brief reception history and an overview of the critical tradition surrounding each version, its focus is upon how these renderings present particular moments that offer the consolation of eternity, especially since such passages typify the work as a whole. For Boethius, confused and conflicting views on fame, fortune, happiness, good and evil, fate, free will, necessity, foreknowledge, and providence are only capable of clarity and resolution to the degree that one attains to knowledge of the divine mind and especially to knowledge like that of the divine mind, which alone possesses a perfectly eternal perspective. Thus, as it draws upon such fundamentally Boethian passages on the eternal Prime Mover, this study demonstrates how the translators have negotiated linguistic, literary, cultural, religious, and political expectations and forces as they have presented their own particular versions of the Boethian vision of eternity. Even though the text has been understood, accepted, and appropriated in such divergent ways over the centuries, the Boethian vision of eternity has held his Consolations arguments together and undergirded all of its most pivotal positions, without disturbing or compromising the philosophical, secular, academic, or religious approaches to the work, as readers from across the ideological, theological, doctrinal, and political spectra have appreciated and endorsed the nature and the implications of divine eternity. It is the consolation of eternity that has been cast so consistently and so faithfully into Old, Middle, and Early Modern English, regardless of form and irrespective of situation or background. For whether in prose and verse, all-prose, or all-verse, and whether by a Catholic, a Protestant, a king, a queen, an author, or a scholar, each translation has presented the texts central narrative: as Boethius the character is educated by the figure of Lady Philosophy, his eyes are turned away from the earth and into the heavens, moving him and his mind from confusion to clarity, from forgetfulness to remembrance, from reason to intelligence, and thus from time to eternity.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

17

Nauta, Lodi. "William of Conches and the tradition of Boethius' Consolatio Philosophiae : an edition of his Glosae super Boetium and studies of the Latin commentary tradition /." Beil. : Stellingen, 1999. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=008818650&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

18

Leal, Lauro Cristiano Marculino. "Das ideias constituintes da noção de felicidade no de consolatione philosophiae." Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 2016. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/9596.

Full text

Abstract:

Submitted by Maike Costa (maiksebas@gmail.com) on 2017-09-20T13:59:43Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 9734811 bytes, checksum: 5a26f044fc0a169920d5d9e0a244493f (MD5)
Made available in DSpace on 2017-09-20T13:59:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 9734811 bytes, checksum: 5a26f044fc0a169920d5d9e0a244493f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-11-09
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES
Reflecting on Boethius' thought is to bring with him the responsibility of reaching the intensity of his work, given that in addition to his contribution as one of the main translators and commentators, he will focus on the History of Philosophy as one that offered new directions and problems To be investigated, since, among other subjects, presented to society a new educational methodology, probably anticipating Scholasticism. He introduced in the philosophical discussions the problem of universals when he asked, in his commentary on Isagoge de Porfirio, the mode of existence of genera and species, he elaborated with notoriety works dealing with music, theology, mathematics, logic and metaphysics. However, the proposal of our research is to focus on one of his works of greatest repercussion in the medieval period and that offers, among various motes, a new meaning to the concept of happiness: The Consolation of Philosophy. This will then be a link between the Hellenic world, with its set of constituted philosophical systems and a new Roman cultural and social structure, in which the central theme that will make this junction is the idea of happiness. In this way, we will try to systematize the path that Boethius developed to demonstrate that the understanding of happiness is a way to free us from the anguish contained in false goods, whose implication will be to promote an approximation of what is true. Through this, we will explore the problems that originate in the very concept of happiness and its relation to freedom and justice, in order to stand out as fundamental elements that support the proposal of the book, presenting them as part of a basic structure, Whose analysis leads us to the understanding of the main questions that involve the condition of man's existence.
Refletir acerca do pensamento de Boécio é trazer consigo a responsabilidade de alcançar a intensidade de sua obra, tendo em vista que além da sua contribuição como um dos principais tradutores e comentadores das obras de Aristóteles, ele se fixará na História da Filosofia como aquele que ofereceu novos direcionamentos e problemas a serem investigados, pois, dentre outros temas, apresentou à sociedade uma nova metodologia educacional, provavelmente antecipando a Escolástica. Introduziu nas discussões filosóficas o problema dos universais ao perguntar, no comentário a Isagoge de Porfírio, o modo de existência dos gêneros e das espécies, elaborou com notoriedade obras que tratam de música, teologia, matemática, lógica e metafísica. Entretanto, a proposta da nossa pesquisa é debruçarmos-nos em uma das suas obras de maior repercussão no período medieval e que oferece, em meio a vários motes, um sentido de interpretação do conceito de felicidade que se projetará para a posteridade: A Consolação da Filosofia. Esta será então um elo entre o mundo helênico, com seu conjunto de sistemas filosóficos constituídos e a uma nova estrutura cultural e social romana, em que o tema central que fará esta junção será a ideia de felicidade. Desta forma, buscaremos sistematizar o caminho que Boécio desenvolveu para demonstrar que a compreensão da felicidade é um caminho que permite nos libertar da angústia contida nos falsos bens, cuja implicação será a de promover uma aproximação daquilo que é verdadeiro. Através disto, exploraremos as problemáticas que se originam no próprio conceito de felicidade e sua relação com a liberdade e a justiça, no sentido de se destacarem como elementos fundamentais que dão sustentação à ideia de que seja possível a felicidade em meio a injustiça, cuja análise nos conduz ao entendimento das principais questões que envolvem a condição de existência do homem, que é o de ser feliz.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

19

Müller, Barbara F. [Verfasser]. "Hochmut und Demut in der angelsächsischen Theologie : Studien zur altenglischen Interpretation von Gregor dem Großen, Orosius, Boethius und Augustin im Frühmittelalter / Barbara F. Müller." Bonn : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1123572224/34.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

20

Siede, Mechthild [Verfasser], Georg [Akademischer Betreuer] Wöhrle, Georg [Gutachter] Wöhrle, and Stephan [Gutachter] Busch. "Phytomedizin in der Antike. Phytopathogene Einflüsse und ihre Wirkungsgeschichte im Lichte der Literatur von Homer bis Boethius / Mechthild Siede ; Gutachter: Georg Wöhrle, Stephan Busch ; Betreuer: Georg Wöhrle." Trier : Universität Trier, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1197808205/34.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

21

Coppola, Mario. "La teologia boeziana nel secolo XII: i Commentari agli Opuscula sacra." Doctoral thesis, Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10556/1527.

Full text

Abstract:

2009 - 2010
The research deals with the different conceptions of theology, as a field of knowledge with its own and peculiar connotations, as they have developed during the twelfth century in the commentaries of Gilbert of Poitiers, Thierry of Chartres, and Clarembald of Arras to Boethius' Opuscula sacra. In the thesis the comments are studied analytically, with emphasis on both the shared speculative elements and the reasons for the differences among the theoretical perspectives of the three authors, in such a way as to highlight the specific philosophical features of each of them. The survey is conducted in the light of the common cultural environment of the commentators, characterized by a renewed interest in the investigation of the foundations of theological discourse, by an intense movement and exchange of ideas between the monastic communities and the teachings in the cathedral schools, and by an effervescence of new studies - also sprung from the circulation of some works of late ancient Neoplatonism (especially Macrobius and Calcidius) and from incipient trends, in-depth analysis, intersections, and discovery of new texts, in the spheres of arts of the Trivium and of the Quadrivium. The work aims to illustrate what and how and what ground, according to the three commentators, it is possible to speak truthfully aboud God, on the basis of the disciplinary approach proposed by Boethius six centuries before, contextualizing their exegesis on the historical background of the new advances in the areas of grammar, rhetoric, logic and physical-cosmological thought, and also tracing the influences of both the tradition of late ancient and previous medieval speculation and the reflections undertaken by contemporary authors, with regard to theological speech and the nature of the relationship between nationality and faith. [edited by Author]
IX n.s.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

22

Deason, William David. "Part I. A taxonomic paradigm from Boethius' De divisione applied to the eight modes of music : Part II. Arioso and toccata for euphonium solo, wind ensemble, harp, and percussion /." The Ohio State University, 1992. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487779439847528.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

23

Tracy, Bauer A. "The Pardoner's Consolation: Reading The Pardoner's Fate Through Chaucer's Boethian Source." Ohio Dominican University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=odu1619274562731637.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

24

Huh, Min-Jun. "Le premier commentaire de Boèce à l’Isagogè de Porphyre : introduction, traduction et commentaire." Thesis, Paris 4, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA040145.

Full text

Abstract:

Notre thèse en deux volumes vise à donner une traduction inédite du premier commentaire de Boèce à l’Isagogè de Porphyre à partir de l’édition critique de Samuel Brandt publiée en 1906. De fait, Boèce s’appuie sur la traduction latine de Marius Victorinus et non, comme le suggère le titre, sur le texte grec de Porphyre. Le premier volume contient une introduction générale articulée en quatre parties: examen critique des études secondaires; les sources matérielles du premier commentaire de Boèce à l’Isagogè; le traitement des questions de Porphyre sur les universaux; et l’Isagogè de Marius Victorinus et la tradition rhétorique latine. Les thèses que nous défendons sont les suivantes : le commentaire perdu de Porphyre sur les Catégories (A Gédalios) pourrait avoir été la source principale de ce traité logique de Boèce ; historiquement, les trois questions de Porphyre ont été apparentées à la réfutation porphyrienne de la position anti-aristotélicienne de Plotin ; et, contrairement à Victorinus qui considère l’Isagogè comme une introduction aux Topiques de Cicéron, Boèce la conçoit dans la perspective néoplatonicienne qui fait d’elle une introduction aux Catégories d’Aristote. Cette introduction est suivie de la traduction française accompagnée du texte latin de l’édition de Brandt. Notre commentaire à la traduction est développé dans le second volume qui contient également une traduction française inédite du commentaire d’Ammonius à l’Isagogè de Porphyre et une réfutation de la thèse soutenue par Brandt dans ses prolegomena de son édition critique à propos des parallèles textuels attestés dans les commentaires à l’Isagogè de Boèce et d’Ammonius (cf. appendices 1 et 2)
Our thesis in two volumes aims to give an original French translation of Boethius’s first commentary on Porphyry’s Isagoge based on the critical edition published by Samuel Brandt in 1906. Actually, Boethius commentary deals with the Latin translation of Marius Victorinus and not, as the title seems to suggest, with the greek treatise of Porphyry. The first volume contains a general introduction divided into four parts : a critical studies of the secondary sources; the material sources of the Boethian first commentary on Isagoge; the Boethian analysis of Porphyry’s three questions about universals; and Marius Victorinus’ Isagoge and the Latin rhetorical tradition. The thesis we defend in the introduction can be summarized as follows : Porphyry’s lost commentary on Categories (Ad Gedalium) may have been the main source of the first Boethian commentary on Isagoge ; historically, the three questions on universals had been related to the Porphyrian refutation of anti-Aristotelian position of Plotinus ; and, unlike Victorinus which considers Isagoge as an introduction to Cicero’s Topica, Boethius adopts the Neoplatonic perspective which makes it an introduction to Aristotle’s Categories. This introduction is followed by the French translation accompanied by the latin text edited by Brandt. Our commentary on the Boethian treatise is developed in the second volume, which also contains an original French translation of Ammonius’ commentary on Porphyry’s Isagoge and a full refutation of the thesis supported by Brandt in his prolegomena to his critical edition about the textual parallels attested in the Boethian and Ammonian commentaries on Isagoge (cf. appendix 1 and 2)

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

25

Voigt, Suzann Wanda. "The Boethian Influence on the "Alliterative Morte d'Arthure"." W&M ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625746.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

26

Blackwood, Stephen J. "The role of prayer in Boethius's Consolation of philosophy." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0019/MQ49317.pdf.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

27

Ordynski, Rémi. "Montaigne et les traditions de consolation, « pour moy, ou pour un autre »." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 3, 2023. http://www.theses.fr/2023PA030055.

Full text

Abstract:

La critique récente a ouvert la voie à une meilleure compréhension des traditions antiques de consolation et de leurs modalités de résurgence à la Renaissance. La présente thèse propose d’en analyser l’influence sur l’écriture de Montaigne, de l’édition des œuvres de La Boétie de 1571-1572 jusqu’à celle des Essais de 1595. Cet héritage ne passe pas seulement par la lecture et la réécriture de textes antiques, mais également par le dialogue avec des pratiques contemporaines de l’auteur, à la fois sociales, philosophiques et scripturaires. L’essai des traditions consolatoires se manifeste par un examen critique de celles-ci mais également par une expérience mouvante et protéiforme, ainsi que par une véritable mise à l’épreuve de ces procédures. Multipliant les références au thesaurus consolatoire tout en cultivant l’infraction, l’infléchissement et le dévoiement, Montaigne met à mal ces traditions sans jamais les congédier définitivement. Une lecture rhétorique des Essais, à la lumière des préceptes d'écriture consolatoire appliqués aux lettres (Érasme, Fabri), à la poésie (Scaliger) ou aux discours (Vossius, Keckermann), révèle en effet la pratique, jusque dans les derniers chapitres et sur l’Exemplaire de Bordeaux, d’un type de parénèse que l’ironie ne suffit pas à disqualifier. Ce mode de discours met en relation un « je » et un « tu » qui ne se superposent pas exactement avec l’auteur et le lecteur. Dans cet espace – ce jeu –, s’instaure la recherche d’une autonomie et d’une singularité dans la façon de se dire et de se vivre, processus qui n’a de sens que dans la mesure où il requiert et sollicite l’autre
Recent research has opened the way to a better understanding of ancient consolatory traditions and the forms of their revival during the Renaissance. This dissertation aims at studying how they may have influenced Montaigne’s writings from the edition of works by La Boétie (1571-1572) to the publication of the Essais in 1595. This legacy does not only involve the reading and re-writing of ancient texts, it also establishes a dialogue with some practices that were contemporary to the author, whether they be social, philosophical or literary. The essay on consolatory traditions displays a critical analysis of these practices but also a shifting and protean experience and it singles itself out as a real assessment of these procedures. While constantly referring to the consolatory thesaurus, Montaigne also devotes himself to bending and altering these traditions which he questions without dismissing them altogether. A rhetorical analysis based on the treatises on letters (Erasm, Fabri), poetry (Scaliger) or speeches (Vossius, Keckermann) reveals the actual use, up to the last chapters and on the Bordeaux Copy, of a type of parenesis that irony alone cannot invalidate. This mode of expression connects an "I" and a "You" that do not correspond exactly to the author and the reader. In this in-between area, we can find the search for an autonomy and a singularity in the way of expressing oneself and experiencing life, a process that can only become meaningful if it calls upon and appeals to the other

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

28

Summers, Joanna. "The writer in prison : textual authority, contemporary discourse, and politicised self-presentation in some late-medieval texts." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365487.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

29

Christola, Victor. "Tingens lydnad och människans väntan : Nödvändighet, nåd, handling och tänkande i Simone Weils filosofi." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Filosofi, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-32757.

Full text

Abstract:

This bachelor thesis engages in a quest to understand the concepts of necessity and grace in Simone Weils thinking. The question in play, in which many more questions lie hidden, reads as follows: How does Weil understand the operations of grace in relation to the ”blind necessity” of the natural world, and what are the philosophical implications of this concept of grace? What are, for instance, given her understanding of the world as God’s creation, the metaphysical grounds for a basic human activitiy such as thinking or reflexion? A reading of Simone Weils works on necessity, grace, affliction and attention is contrasted with her thoughts on science, method and truth. The concept of necessity is compared to the one of Spinoza, especially on the subject of how the good or the just relates to the true and the necessary: it shows there are interesting similarities and illuminating differences between the two philosophers’ lines of thought. Here, the concept of attention becomes central to the image: the idea of a cultivated mode of reception of the world and of the Other. Attention is analogously understood as a method of prayer and a cultivated ethical attitude towards other human beings – and an ideal scientific state of mind. In the final chapter of the analytic part of the composition, Weils concept of grace is investigated in regard to concepts of thinking and understanding. Here, Leibniz idea of the divine world and the divine mind plays a concise but important role on the matter of a tentative metaphysical grounding of thinking as such – how this can be thought and how it reflects and deepens Simone Weils metaphysics, especially her understanding of the highest states of insight into the nature of the world as partly a work of divine grace. In the last chapter Walter Benjamins vision of the coming philosophy as a consolidation between Immanuel Kants transcendental philosophy and religious experience – and religious thought – show the way for further investigation into the field, a field that the thesis has outlined at the same time as it has attempted to answer some specific questions that seems to be the most urgent ones.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

30

Hawley, Kenneth Carr. "The Boethian vision of eternity in Old, Middle, and Early Modern English translations of De consolatione philosophiæ." Lexington, Ky. : [University of Kentucky Libraries], 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10225/731.

Full text

Abstract:

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Kentucky, 2007.
Title from document title page (viewed on March 25, 2008). Document formatted into pages; contains: vi, 318 p. Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 304-316).

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

31

Koonce, Alisa Renae. "The analysis and alteration of Boethian natural philosophy in the early Middle Ages ca.900 - ca.1140." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.648200.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

32

Lamson, Morgen. "Boethian Colorings in Geoffrey Chaucer's Earlier Poetry: The Book of the Duchess, The Parliament of Fowls and The House of Fame." TopSCHOLAR®, 2007. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/431.

Full text

Abstract:

There has been much written on Boethius and his impact on Chaucer's greater known works, such as The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde, yet there has not been much light shone on his other works, namely The Book of the Duchess, The Parliament of Fowls, and The House of Fame, which are a rich mix of medieval conventions and Boethian elements and themes. Such ideas have been explored through the lenses of his five, shorter "Boethian lyrics" - "The Former Age," "Fortune," "Truth," "Gentilesse," and "Lak of Stedfastnesse" - particularly because it is within these five poems that the metafictional narrative approach or framing of Chaucer's Boethiusinfluenced work, through narration and possible consolations, are fleshed out and brought into focus. However, the "Boethian lyrics" are not necessary in the study of the three earlier poems The Book of the Duchess, The Parliament of Fowls, and The House of Fame. Using the convention of the frame tale with the dream vision in these three poems allows for the narrator to be brought to an understanding in each of these texts, strongly suggesting that this approach is something that Chaucer came across in Boethius's The Consolation of Philosophy. To merely go through and catalogue all Boethian elements as lifted directly from Consolation would accomplish nothing but a catalog of similarities. In that same vein, to analyze the "Boethian poems" would also be treading over familiar scholarly ground. In examining an intermediary group of texts as a bridge between Boethius's classical philosophy and Chaucer's courtly poetry, particularly The Book of the Duchess, The Parliament of Fowls and The House of Fame, this more concretely shows the extent of Boethius's coloring injected into Chaucer's writings from early in his writing career. Through close readings and secondary outside research, I am confident that another chapter of Chaucerian scholarship, one that has rarely been explored, much less written, can be added.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

33

Randall, Jennifer M. "Early Medieval Rhetoric: Epideictic Underpinnings in Old English Homilies." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/61.

Full text

Abstract:

Medieval rhetoric, as a field and as a subject, has largely been under-developed and under-emphasized within medieval and rhetorical studies for several reasons: the disconnect between Germanic, Anglo-Saxon society and the Greco-Roman tradition that defined rhetoric as an art; the problems associated with translating the Old and Middle English vernacular in light of rhetorical and, thereby, Greco-Latin precepts; and the complexities of the medieval period itself with the lack of surviving manuscripts, often indistinct and inconsistent political and legal structure, and widespread interspersion and interpolation of Christian doctrine. However, it was Christianity and its governance of medieval culture that preserved classical rhetoric within the medieval period through reliance upon a classic epideictic platform, which, in turn, became the foundation for early medieval rhetoric. The role of epideictic rhetoric itself is often undervalued within the rhetorical tradition because it appears too basic or less essential than the judicial or deliberative branches for in-depth study and analysis. Closer inspection of this branch reveals that epideictic rhetoric contains fundamental elements of human communication with the focus upon praise and blame and upon appropriate thought and behavior. In analyzing the medieval world’s heritage and knowledge of the Greco-Roman tradition, epideictic rhetoric’s role within the writings and lives of Greek and Roman philosophers, and the popular Christian writings of the medieval period – such as Alfred’s translation of Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy, Alfred’s translation of Gregory the Great’s Pastoral Care, Ælfric’s Lives of Saints, Ælfric’s Catholic Homilies, Wulfstan’s Sermo Lupi ad Anglos, and the anonymously written Vercelli and Blickling homiles – an early medieval rhetoric begins to be revealed. This Old English rhetoric rests upon a blended epideictic structure based largely upon the encomium and vituperation formats of the ancient progymnasmata, with some additions from the chreia and commonplace exercises, to form a unique rhetoric of the soul that aimed to convert words into moral thought and action within the lives of every individual. Unlike its classical predecessors, medieval rhetoric did not argue, refute, or prove; it did not rely solely on either praise or blame; and it did not cultivate words merely for intellectual, educative, or political purposes. Instead, early medieval rhetoric placed the power of words in the hands of all humanity, inspiring every individual to greater discernment of character and reality, greater spirituality, greater morality, and greater pragmatism in daily life.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

34

Raveton, Elsa-Chirine. "L'idée de simplicité divine : une lecture de Bonaventure et Thomas d'Aquin." Thesis, Paris 4, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA040138/document.

Full text

Abstract:

Cette étude souhaite contribuer à une meilleure connaissance et compréhension de l’idée de simplicité divine, qui signifie l’absence en Dieu de toute composition. Pièce centrale de la pensée théologique médiévale, elle fut redécouverte il y a 35 ans par des philosophes de tendance analytique, qui en contestèrent la cohérence. Elle est depuis lors l’objet d’un débat philosophique fourni, mais le détour par l’histoire de la philosophie est nécessaire pour dégager le réseau de concepts, d’arguments et de problèmes qui lui donne sens. Après avoir étudié la première élaboration de cette idée dans les textes antiques et patristiques, puis son traitement par Pierre Lombard à la veille du IVe concile de Latran de 1215, qui intègre pour la première fois la simplicité divine dans une profession de foi authentique du magistère, nous nous concentrons sur les œuvres de Bonaventure de Bagnoregio et de Thomas d’Aquin, qui accordent à cet attribut divin un rôle fondateur dans leur étude du mystère de Dieu. L’idée de simplicité divine s’y trouve sans cesse prise dans la dialectique de la ressemblance et de la dissemblance entre Créateur et créature. Tandis que Thomas associe de façon unilatérale la simplicité absolue à la transcendance de l’incréé, Bonaventure propose également des similitudes créées de la simplicité divine qui en favorisent l’intuition. Loin d’apparaître comme incohérente, l’idée de simplicité divine est un outil puissant pour ouvrir notre intelligence à un plan de réalité supérieur, certes mystérieux, mais néanmoins lumineux
This study seeks to contribute to a better understanding and comprehension of the idea of divine simplicity, which means the absence in God of any composition. Cornerstone of medieval theological thinking, divine simplicity was rediscovered 35 years ago by philosophers of analytical leanings, who challenged its coherence. It has since formed the subject of abundant philosophical debate, however, the detour via the history of philosophy is necessary in order to draw out the network of concepts, arguments and issues, from where divine simplicity derives its meaning. After the study of the first development of this idea in ancient and patristic texts, and its treatment by Peter Lombard on the eve of the 4th Council of Lateran in 1215, which integrates for the first time divine simplicity in a genuin profession of faith of the magisterium, we shall focus on the works of Bonaventure of Bagnoregio and Thomas Aquinas, who grant this divine attribute a founding role in the study of the mystery of God. The idea of divine simplicity keeps being comprised in the dialectics of similarity and dissimilarity between Creator and creature. While Aquinas associates in an unilateral way absolute simplicity and transcendence of the uncreated, Bonaventure offers also created resemblances of divine simplicity which favour its intuition. Far from appearing incoherent, the idea of divine simplicity is a powerful means to open our minds to a level of superior reality, indeed mysterious, but nevertheless radiant

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

35

Griffin, Michael J. "The reception of the Categories of Aristotle, c. 80 BC to AD 220." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2009. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f4149a7e-2ad0-4d7b-b428-2ba55acf22d3.

Full text

Abstract:

This thesis focuses on the ancient reception of the Categories of Aristotle, a work which served continuously, from late antiquity into the early modern period (Frede 1987), as the student’s introduction to philosophy. There had previously been no comprehensive study of the reception of the Categories during the age of the first philosophical commentaries (c. 80 BC to AD 220). In this study, I have collected, assigned, and analyzed the relevant fragments of commentary belonging to this period, including some that were previously undocumented or inexplicit in the source texts, and sought to establish and characterize the influence of the early commentators’ activity on the subsequent Peripatetic tradition. In particular, I trace the early evolution of criticism and defense of the text through competing accounts of its aim (skopos), which would ultimately lead Stoic and Platonic philosophers to a partial acceptance of the Categories and frame its role in the later Neo-Platonic curriculum.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

36

Vassilieva-Codognet, Olga. "Iconographie de Fortune au Moyen Âge et à la Renaissance (XIe-XVIe siècle)." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017EHES0048.

Full text

Abstract:

Ce travail sur l’iconographie de Fortune au Moyen Âge et à la Renaissance se base sur un corpus de plus d’un millier d’images dont seul un tiers y est reproduit. L'enquête commence par une nécessaire étude lexicographique qui permet de mieux cerner les sens du mot latin « fortuna » ainsi que ceux du mot français « fortune » entre le xie et le xvie siècle. Une seconde partie s’intéresse au motif iconographique de la Roue de Fortune médiévale – i.e. cette roue sur le pourtour de laquelle prennent place des personnages dont le premier monte, les second trône, le troisième tombe et le dernier gît à terre –, depuis sa genèse dans un manuscrit bénéventain datant des années 1060-1070 jusqu’à sa diffusion sur toutes sortes de supports (peinture murale, sculpture monumentale, mosaïque, etc.) ainsi qu’aux différents usages de ce motif (didactiques, emblématiques, divinatoires). Une troisième partie recense les nombreuses variantes que génère au fil des siècles ce très fécond motif : Roue de la Vie, Roues animales satiriques, Roue des Vicissitudes de l’Humanité, etc. Une quatrième partie étudie la personnification de Fortune qui apparaît au xiie siècle, tant dans les images que dans les textes, avant de devenir l’une des vedettes de l’iconographie de la fin du Moyen Âge, la figure de Fortune se retrouvant dans d’innombrables manuscrits de Boèce, Jean de Meun, Boccace ou Christine de Pizan. La cinquième et dernière partie est consacrée à la mutation que connaît Fortune à la Renaissance, mutation qui la voit changer tant de forme que de fonction, l’aveugle et duplice déesse du sort abandonnant alors sa fonction didactique – et la roue d’exemples qui va avec – pour devenir une accorte jeune femme nue à la mèche de cheveux flottant au vent dont la fonction est propitiatoire et l’usage emblématique
This work on the iconography of Fortune in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance is based on more than one thousand images of which only one third is reproduced in the document. The study begins with a lexicographical study aiming at better understanding the various meanings of the Latin word « fortuna » and the French word « fortune » from the xith to the xvith centuries. The second section addresses the iconographical pattern of the mediaeval Wheel of Fortune – i.e. that wheel where four human beings occupy different positions on the rim: the first ascends, the second is enthroned, the third falls and the fourth lays on the ground – from its inception in a 1060-1070 Beneventan manuscript to its diffusion to various media (mural painting, monumental sculpture, mosaic, etc.) as well as its different uses (didactic, emblematic, divinatory). The third section identifies the numerous variations that this fertile pattern has generated over the centuries: Wheel of Life, satirical animal Wheels, Wheel of Vicissitudes of Humanity, etc. The fourth section studies the personification of Fortune which appears in the xiith century before becoming a star of late mediaeval iconography, her figure gracing innumerable manuscripts of Boethius, Jean de Meun, Giovanni Boccaccio or Christine de Pizan. The fifth and final section is devoted to Fortune’s mutation during the Renaissance: changing both form and function, the blind and treacherous goddess of fate gives up her didactic function – and the wheel of examples that comes with it – and becomes a beautiful naked woman with a forelock whose function is propitiatory and use emblematic

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

37

Vermot-Petit-Outhenin, Stéphanie. "La réception de Boèce au XIIIe siècle : Saint Thomas d'Aquin lecteur du De Trinitate." Caen, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008CAEN1508.

Full text

Abstract:

La réception de Boèce au XIIIe siècle, mineure par rapport à celle des siècles précédents, se concentre particulièrement dans la lecture de Saint-Thomas d'Aquin du De Trinitate, où ce dernier trouve les principes fondamentaux qui lui serviront à établir sa méthode de la théologie. Quête de la"sagesse", comme on le lit dans l'exergue du commentaire, ou plutôt des fondements d'une science qui mène à la connaissance de Dieu, le Super Boetium de Trinitate relit et corrige le traité béotien qui a posé, plus de sept siècles avant Saint-Thomas, les bases de la théologie scientifique. Si, au coursde son commentaire, Saint-Thomas se lance dans des développements très personnels, il n'oublie jamais, en effet, de répondre à Boèce : en redéfinissant le rôle de la foi en la théologie, mais aussi, à travers la question du "mode" des sciences et de leur division, en donnant une interprétation nouvelle et féconde de ce qui, pour ses contemporains, n'était guère plus que des axiomes, appartenant à la tradition philosophique des siècles passés

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

38

Curran, Martin H. "The Immaterial Theurgy of Boethius." 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10222/15405.

Full text

Abstract:

This thesis is an attempt to understand the efficacy of prayer in Boethius’ 'Consolation of Philosophy.' Prayer is man’s commercium with the divine realm, and so prayer is higher than human thought. The highest stage of prayer in the Consolation is similar to that in Iamblichus’ 'De Mysteriis': man becomes aware of his own deficiency compared to the divine and so turns to prayer. Lower prayers are also effective because they are both immaterial theurgy and spiritual exercises. The circles throughout the work are a crucial instance of these prayers. They constantly purify the Prisoner’s soul of false notions, and restore it to its true state. They lead the Prisoner to discover that his activity of thinking is a form of theurgy. The Consolation reveals that in the life of philosophy there is a mutual interdependence between thought, prayer and theurgy.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

39

Goddard, Victoria. "Poetry and Philosophy in Boethius and Dante." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/31760.

Full text

Abstract:

This dissertation examines the nature and influence of the structural complexity of Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy on Dante’s Commedia, arguing that the latter is a deliberate response to the former. The General Introduction sets the groundwork through a survey of the major scholarship on Dante and Boethius; the genre of the Consolation as understood through the modern, but inadequate, category of Menippean satire and through accessus ad auctores in the medieval commentary tradition on Boethius and related authors; and the conception of intertextuality used in the study, which is connected to both the practice of allegory and Boethius’ understanding of metaphysics. Chapter One examines the Consolation, beginning with the presentation and roles of its two major characters, Boethius and Philosophy. Anchoring the more abstract discussion of the Consolation’s structure and its scholarly interpretations is the subsequent analysis of three main themes, time, love, and prayer. Chapter Two considers five twelfth-century prosimetra and their intertextual relationships with the Consolation in order to map authorial strategies of imitation: Bernard Silvestris’ Cosmographia; Alan of Lille’s Plaint of Nature; Hildebert of Lavardin’s Liber de querimonia; Adelard of Bath’s De eodem et diverso; and Lawrence of Durham’s Consolatio de morte amici. Each work is examined for its Boethian elements and structural complexity; the most original, the Cosmographia, is considered at greatest length. This provides an overview of common interpretive and imitative options for the Consolation. Chapter Three examines the Boethian elements of Dante’s Vita Nuova and the Convivio before engaging with the Commedia in order to take issue with the prevailing scholarly opinion that the Commedia can be understood as a rejecton of Dante’s Boethian stage as symbolized by the Convivio. Through a thorough examination of the many ways the Consolation is an intertext in the Commedia, this chapter argues that the Commedia is deeply responsive to the challenges of the Consolation both philosophically and artistically, and, in fact, is positioned by Dante so as to supersede and typologically fulfill the Consolation. In conclusion, therefore, Boethius’ work is demonstrated to be integral to a proper understanding of Dante’s purpose in the Commedia.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

40

"Three Meditations on the Philosophy of Boethius." Master's thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.17970.

Full text

Abstract:

abstract: Three Meditations on the Philosophy of Boethius is a musical piece for guitar, piano interior, and computer. Each of the three movements, or meditations, reflects one level of music according to the medieval philosopher Boethius: Musica Mundana, Musica Humana, and Musica Instrumentalis. From spatial aspects, through the human element, to letting sound evolve freely, different movements revolve around different sounds and sound producing techniques.
Dissertation/Thesis
M.M. Music 2013

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

41

Bovell, Carlos R. "Rhetoric More Geometrico in Proclus' Elements of Theology and Boethius' De Hebdomadibus." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10756/285232.

Full text

Abstract:

My thesis inquires into the reasons behind Proclus' and Boethius' adaptation of discussion more geometrico in their metaphysical works, Elements of Theology and De Hebdomadibus, respectively. My argument is that each philosopher is engaged in a spiritual exercise to the effect that each sought, in his own way, to predispose readers to the anagogical acceptance of profound matters of faith.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

42

Bell, Jack Harding. "Chaucer and the Disconsolations of Philosophy: Boethius, Agency, and Literary Form in Late Medieval Literature." Diss., 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/12172.

Full text

Abstract:

This study argues that Chaucer's poetry belongs to a far-reaching conversation about the forms of consolation (philosophical, theological, and poetic) that are available to human persons. Chaucer's entry point to this conversation was Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, a sixth-century dialogue that tried to show how the Stoic ideals of autonomy and self-possession are not simply normative for human beings but remain within the grasp of every individual. Drawing on biblical commentary, consolation literature, and political theory, this study contends that Chaucer's interrogation of the moral and intellectual ideals of the Consolation took the form of philosophical disconsolations: scenes of profound poetic rupture in which a character, sometimes even Chaucer himself, turns to philosophy for solace and yet fails to be consoled. Indeed, philosophy itself becomes a source of despair. In staging these disconsolations, I contend that Chaucer asks his readers to consider the moral dimensions of the aspirations internal to ancient philosophy and the assumptions about the self that must be true if its insights are to console and instruct. For Chaucer, the self must be seen as a gift that flowers through reciprocity (both human and divine) and not as an object to be disciplined and regulated.

Chapter one focuses on the Consolation of Philosophy. I argue that recent attempts to characterize Chaucer's relationship to this text as skeptical fail to engage the Consolation on its own terms. The allegory of Lady Philosophy's revelation to a disconsolate Boethius enables philosophy to become both an agent and an object of inquiry. I argue that Boethius's initial skepticism about the pretentions of philosophy is in part what Philosophy's therapies are meant to respond to. The pressures that Chaucer's poetry exerts on the ideals of autonomy and self-possession sharpen one of the major absences of the Consolation: viz., the unanswered question of whether Philosophy's therapies have actually consoled Boethius. Chapter two considers one of the Consolation's fascinating and paradoxical afterlives: Robert Holcot's Postilla super librum sapientiae (1340-43). I argue that Holcot's Stoic conception of wisdom, a conception he explicitly links with Boethius's Consolation, relies on a model of agency that is strikingly similar to the powers of self-knowledge that Philosophy argues Boethius to posses. Chapter three examines Chaucer's fullest exploration of the Boethian model of selfhood and his ultimate rejection of it in Troilus and Criseyde. The poem, which Chaucer called his "tragedy," belonged to a genre of classical writing he knew of only from Philosophy's brief mention of it in the Consolation. Chaucer appropriates the genre to explore and recover mourning as a meaningful act. In Chapter four, I turn to Dante and the House of Fame to consider Chaucer's self-reflections about his ambitions as a poet and the demands of truth-telling.

Dissertation

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

43

SEVERA, Miroslav. "Siger z Brabantu a středověký spor o věčnost světa." Master's thesis, 2007. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-45611.

Full text

Abstract:

Práce se snaží zachytit pozici některých středověkých autorů co se týče sporu o původ a trvání světa. Nějprve jsou zmíněny některé biblické prameny a nauka magisteria. Následuje rozsáhlá kapitola o Filoponově sporu se Simpliciem ohledně výkladu Aristotelova spisu De caelo (O nebi), která je doplněna krátkou kapitolou pojednávající o problémech spojených s konceptem nekonečna. Následují dvě kratší kapitoly. První je o Averroově stanovisku k problému věčnosti světa, které popsal ve svém spise Tahafut al Tahafut. Následuje kapitola o Maimonidově stanovisku popsaném v jeho Dux perplexorum. Poté již přichází sekce, v které je provedena analýza Sigerova spisu De aeternitate mundi s přihlédnutím k jeho Questiones metahysicae. Tuto kapitolu doplňuje detailní popis vztahu rozumu a víry načrtnutý ve spise Boethia z Dacie-De mundi aeternitate, který je následně aplikován na řešený problém.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

44

Hunter, Brooke Marie. "Chaucer's poetry and the new Boethianism." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-08-1569.

Full text

Abstract:

My dissertation reexamines Chaucer’s debts to the Consolation by reconciling Boethius’s Neoplatonic distaste for the material world with Chaucer’s poetic celebrations of the variety and sensuality of human life. I revise the understanding of Chaucer’s poetry by recontextualizing it within a new Boethianism that stems from Chaucer’s interaction with the scholastic commentary on the Consolation by Nicholas Trevet. Although critics have long known that Chaucer’s Boece extensively borrows from, glosses, and cross references with Trevet’s commentary, very little attention has been given to what effect this had on Chaucer’s Boethian poetry. My dissertation argues that through Trevet’s immensely popular commentary, Chaucer received a predominantly Aristotelian-Thomist reading of the Consolation, one that reinvents Boethius’s Neoplatonic rejection of the sensual world as an apologetically materialist philosophy. The Aristotelian-Thomist influence of Trevet’s commentary is most visible in Chaucer’s treatment of the human interactions with the temporal world: in the functions of sense perception, the working of memory, and the desire to foresee the unknown future.
text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

45

Severa, Miroslav. "Heterodoxní mistři svobodných umění a jejich diskuze s Tomášem Akvinským." Doctoral thesis, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-333729.

Full text

Abstract:

Heterodox master of liberal arts and theirs discussions with Thomas Aquinas Mgr. Miroslav Severa Summary: The proposed thesis deals with two important issues discussed by Tomas Aquinas in connection with the averroistic controversy that occurred in the second half of the thirteenth century in Paris. The topics are On the eternity of the world and On the unity of intellect. Its author defends the position that concerning the problem On the eternity of the Word is the solution proposed by Thomas Aquinas closer to the position of heterodox masters of liberal arts then to the attitude of some orthodox theologians. The heterodox teaching On the unity of intellect is by Thomas sufficiently disproven. The doctrine of Thomas Aquinas doesn't need to always constitute an irreconcilable antithesis against the attitude of heterodox masters as it is described by some authors. The thesis also deals the two topics on the historical background of the condemnations issued by the Parisian bishop Stephan Tempier in the years 1270 and 1277. Although the heterodox masters of liberal arts are in their philosophizing strongly influenced by the Arab philosopher Averroes theirs position concerning the relationship between fides and ratio is different. Averroes says that when the conflict between reason and revelation occurs than...

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

46

Tang, Andy chi-chung. "Pythagoras at the smithy : science and rhetoric from antiquity to the early modern period." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/27195.

Full text

Abstract:

It has been said that Pythagoras discovered the perfect musical intervals by chance when he heard sounds of hammers striking an anvil at a nearby smithy. The sounds corresponded to the same intervals Pythagoras had been studying. He experimented with various instruments and apparatus to confirm what he heard. Math, and in particular, numbers are connected to music, he concluded. The discovery of musical intervals and the icon of the musical blacksmith have been familiar tropes in history, referenced in literary, musical, and visual arts. Countless authors since Antiquity have written about the story of the discovery, most often found in theoretical texts about music. However, modern scholarship has judged the narrative as a myth and a fabrication. Its refutation of the story is peculiar because modern scholarship has failed to disprove the nature of Pythagoras’s discovery with valid physical explanations. This report examines the structural elements of the story and traces its evolution since Antiquity to the early modern period to explain how an author interprets the narrative and why modern scholarship has deemed it a legend. The case studies of Nicomachus of Gerasa, Claudius Ptolemy, Boethius, and Marin Mersenne reveal not only how the story about Pythagoras’s discovery functions for each author, but also how the alterations in each version uncover an author’s views on music.
text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

47

SHEN, JIAN-HONG, and 沈建宏. "Thomas Aquinas's Concept of Scientia According to Expositio Super Boethium de Trinitate." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/23128879852198597399.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

48

Bakyta, Ján. "Latinský západ v zrcadle byzantského dějepisectví (6.-8.stol.)." Doctoral thesis, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-338472.

Full text

Abstract:

The basic aim of the thesis is to investigate whether the Romans of the East (Byzantines) during the 6th to the 8th centuries were interested in the Latin west and the imperial rule over it. In the first part of the work, the various discourses concerning the origins of the Justinianic conquest or reconquest of Africa and Italy articulated in the contemporary sources are identified and evaluated; the only one which cannot be shown or supposed to have been officially articulated is the discourse of a source of Pseudo-Zachariah Scholasticus which makes African and maybe also Italian exulants complaining in the imperial court about the local rulers responsible for the Vandal and Gothic wars. After some other preliminary studies (e.g. concerning the so-called problem of Theodericʼs constitutional position), it is concluded that the emperor Justinian was not interested in an ideologically founded restoration of the empire, but made the western wars because of his contacts with western aristocrats. In the second part of the thesis, the presentation of the Justinianic western wars and western events or realities in the works of the Byzantine historians from Marcellinus Comes and Procopius to Theophylactus Simocatta (the 6th to the early 7th centuries) is investigated and an attempt is made to explore...

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Boethius'

Create a spot-on reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other styles