Absolute Beginners: Der Mittelalterliche Beitrag Zu Einem Ausgang Vom Unbedingten

By Wouter Goris

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 (+1293) and Richard Conington (+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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004162151
• ISBN13: 9789004162150
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.7"