From the turn of the fifth century to the beginning of the eighteenth, Chri stian writers were fascinated and troubled by the "Problem of Paganism," wh ich this book identifies and examines for the first time. How could the wis dom and virtue of the great thinkers of antiquity be reconciled with the fa ct that they were pagans and, many thought, damned? Related questions were raised by encounters with contemporary pagans in northern Europe, Mongolia, and, later, America and China. Pagans and Philosophers explores how writers�??philosophers and theologians , but also poets such as Dante, Chaucer, and Langland, and travelers such a s Las Casas and Ricci�??tackled the Problem of Paganism. Augustine and Boet hius set its terms, while Peter Abelard and John of Salisbury were importan t early advocates of pagan wisdom and virtue. University theologians such a s Aquinas, Scotus, Ockham, and Bradwardine, and later thinkers such as Fici no, Valla, More, Bayle, and Leibniz, explored the difficulty in depth. Mean while, Albert the Great inspired Boethius of Dacia and others to create a r elativist conception of scientific knowledge that allowed Christian teacher s to remain faithful Aristotelians. At the same time, early anthropologists such as John of Piano Carpini, John Mandeville, and Montaigne developed ot her sorts of relativism in response to the issue. A sweeping and original account of an important but neglected chapter in We stern intellectual history, Pagans and Philosophers provides a new perspect ive on nothing less than the entire period between the classical and the mo dern world. Editorial Reviews Review One of Choice's Outstandi.

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Pagans and Philosophers: The Problem of Paganism from Augustine to Leibniz

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Princeton University Press, US

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN-10

0691142556

ISBN-13

9780691142555

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Hardcover

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From the turn of the fifth century to the beginning of the eighteenth, Christian writers were fascinated and troubled by the "Problem of Paganism," which this book identifies and examines for the first time. How could the wisdom and virtue of the great thinkers of antiquity be reconciled with the fact that they were pagans and, many thought, damned? Related questions were raised by encounters with contemporary pagans in northern Europe, Mongolia, and, later, America and China. Pagans and Philosophers explores how writers--philosophers and theologians, but also poets such as Dante, Chaucer, and Langland, and travelers such as Las Casas and Ricci--tackled the Problem of Paganism. Augustine and Boethius set its terms, while Peter Abelard and John of Salisbury were important early advocates of pagan wisdom and virtue. University theologians such as Aquinas, Scotus, Ockham, and Bradwardine, and later thinkers such as Ficino, Valla, More, Bayle, and Leibniz, explored the difficulty in depth. Meanwhile, Albert the Great inspired Boethius of Dacia and others to create a relativist conception of scientific knowledge that allowed Christian teachers to remain faithful Aristotelians. At the same time, early anthropologists such as John of Piano Carpini, John Mandeville, and Montaigne developed other sorts of relativism in response to the issue. A sweeping and original account of an important but neglected chapter in Western intellectual history, Pagans and Philosophers provides a new perspective on nothing less than the entire period between the classical and the modern world.

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John Marenbon is a senior research fellow at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, honorary professor of medieval philosophy at Cambridge, and a fellow of the British Academy. He is the author and editor of many books, including Abelard in Four Dimensions, The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Philosophy, The Cambridge Companion to Boethius, and Medieval Philosophy: An Historical and Philosophical Introduction.

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