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Concepts and Concept Formation in Early Modern Philosophy

2013

The Renaissance witnessed a revival of ancient and Arabic philosophical traditions, such as Platonism, Skepticism and Averroism. Renaissance syncretism was especially influential at the universities in Northern Italy, where several scholars reinterpreted Medieval Latin conceptions of intelligible species. In the sixteenth and seventeenth century, university teaching in most European universities was dominated by second scholasticism. Francisco Suarez was the most philosophically inventive, as well as most influential, among these early modern scholastics (1).

SyncretismScholasticismMedieval LatinPhilosophymedia_common.quotation_subjectConcept learningWestern philosophyModern philosophyPlatonismClassicsSkepticismmedia_common
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SULLA FIABA E SULLA LETTERATURA PER L'INFANZIA A PROPOSITO DI ALCUNI LIBRI

2023

L’articolo riflette su alcune proposte critiche contenute nel recente volume Di cosa parlano i libri per bambini. La letteratura per l’infanzia come critica radicale di Giorgia Grilli, studiosa di letteratura per l’infanzia da molti anni e traduttrice di classici della critica e della narrativa per ragazzi. Attingendo alle scienze cognitive, agli studi di antropologia, di psicologia degli archetipi, di filosofia e alla tradizione critica di settore, Grilli si interroga sul vero significato delle storie per bambini, sulla dimensione profondamente filosofica che alcuni classici per l’infanzia possiedono per dimostrare la complessità letteraria e antropologica di un ambito letterario ingiustam…

The article reflects on some critical proposals contained in the last essay What children's books are about. Children's literature as a radical critique by Giorgia Grilli a scholar of children's literature for many years and translator of critical classics and children's fiction. Drawing from the cognitive sciences the studies of anthropology the psychology of archetypes philosophy and the critical tradition Grilli questions the true meaning of children's stories the profoundly philosophical dimension that some classics for children possess to demonstrate their literary and anthropological complexitySettore L-FIL-LET/10 - Letteratura Italiana
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Some comments on the history of thermogravimetry

1990

Abstract In a review of the authors about the history of vacuum microbalance techniques (including a chronology in table form), also published in Thermochimica Acta, (ref. 1) it uas pointed out, that also some corrections are to be made on the history of therinogravimetry. The first findings of balances are dated to about 3000 B.C. A gravimetric hygrometer is mentioned by Nicolaus Cusanus in 1450. In the 19th century chemical reactions at variable temperatures uere investigated using balances. The very beginning of the thermogravinietry is antedated to the work of Talabot who in 1833 at Lyon equipped a laboratory with thermobalances for quality control of Chinese silk.

ThermogravimetryPhilosophyMineralogyPhysical and Theoretical ChemistryCondensed Matter PhysicsInstrumentationClassicsThermochimica Acta
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Early modern period adobe in Sicily: recent finds

2014

Earthen architecture in ancient Sicily can be linked to a technological continuity common to the whole Mediterranean basin. The island possesses numerous finds, dating back to periods from pre-history to the Hellenistic-Roman age, during which the adobe technique was common. Therefore the archaeological field had been the only one investigated, also due to the fact that more recent evidence of use of earth as a principal element in wall-building techniques was unknown in the Region. Recently traces of adobe were discovered in in the historical centre of Cefalù, on the northern coast of Sicily; these few portions are to be found in residential buildings made primarily of stone. Albeit modest…

Traditional buildingsEarly modern periodmedia_common.quotation_subjectAdobeengineeringEarthen ArchitectureArtAncient historyengineering.materialSicilian Architectural heritageClassicsSettore ICAR/12 - Tecnologia Dell'Architetturamedia_common
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La sombra del poder: Egisto

2017

El poder, si es efectivo, proyecta una sombra, fenómeno inherente a su necesaria entidad, y en el caso del género de poder que representa Clitemnestra la sombra es de todo punto necesaria, pues su poder precisa de la existencia de Egisto, a la vez que de su no presencia. Intentaremos ahondar en las razones por las que se llega al estado de cosas presente en la Orestea de Esquilo. The power, if it is effective, projects a shadow, phenomenon inherent in his necessary entity, and in the case of the genre of power that represents Clytemnestra shadow it is absolutely necessary, because it requires power from the existence of Aegisthus, while that of their non-presence. We try to delve into the r…

TragedyLinguistics and LanguageCivilització gregaShadow ITeffective power and its shadow.State of affairsClitemnestra and AegisthusLanguage and LinguisticsPower (social and political)PhenomenonPolitical sciencepoder efectivo y su sombra.ClassicsClitemnestra y Egistopugna por el poderLaw and economicsShadow (psychology)power struggleTragedia
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Foundations and Foundation Myths of the Troubadours

2019

A review of several origin myths relating to the creation of medieval Occitan lyric poetry. We see a preference for a “great man theory” of origins, though the “great man” may be a fictional woman. Medieval and early Renaissance Occitan authors, including Uc de Saint Circ, Guilhem Molinier, and Jean de Nostredame, used differing origin myths to validate literature in a language that was perceived not to carry the prestige of twelfth- and thirteenth-century Latin or fifteen- and sixteenth-century French.

UNESCO::CIENCIAS DE LAS ARTES Y LAS LETRASHistoryHistoryLiterature and Literary TheoryPoetryPrestigeGreat Man theoryThe RenaissanceFoundation (evidence)SAINTMythologyPreference:CIENCIAS DE LAS ARTES Y LAS LETRAS [UNESCO]Classics
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A Medieval Catalan Horticultural Treatise, "Memòria de les maneres de les llaurons": Introduction, Critical Edition, Translation, Notes and Glossary

2019

The seven known witnesses to a hitherto unpublished medieval Catalan horticultural treatise, Memòria de les maneres de les llaurons, are compared and analyzed. A critical edition is presented, with introduction, notes, English translation and glossary. In an appendix, a synoptic edition provides transcriptions of all accessible witnesses to this text.

UNESCO::CIENCIAS DE LAS ARTES Y LAS LETRASHistoryLiterature and Literary TheoryGlossaryMemoriamedia_common.quotation_subjectArtCritical editionlanguage.human_languagePhilology:CIENCIAS DE LAS ARTES Y LAS LETRAS [UNESCO]languageCatalanClassicsmedia_commonMagnificat Cultura i Literatura Medievals
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Presentation of the monograph «Early Modern Women's Writing : More Texts and Contexts»

2019

catalaPresentacio del monografic «Early Modern Women's Writing: More Texts and Contexts», numero 67 (Tardor 2019) de Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia. EnglishPresentation of the monograph «Early Modern Women's Writing: More Texts and Contexts», number 67 (Autumn 2019) of Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia.

UNESCO::CIENCIAS DE LAS ARTES Y LAS LETRASLinguistics and LanguagePresentationHistorymedia_common.quotation_subject:CIENCIAS DE LAS ARTES Y LAS LETRAS [UNESCO]Language and LinguisticsClassicsmedia_common
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Towards World Philosophy and a World History of Philosophy—Karl Jaspers: His Work, Calling, and Legacy

2011

Professor Wisser’s address to students during the Summer Semester of 1995 at the University of Mainz (Germany) regarding the contributions of Karl Jaspers on world philosophy, a history of world philosophy, and the value of his thought for philosophizing in general. Discussion of the semantics of seeing, hearing, and learning and what Jaspers has to offer as regards the continuous project of Bildung as contrast to other major figures in the history of Western philosophy and theology.

Value (ethics)Environmental ethicsWorld historySociologyWestern philosophySemanticsClassicsBildung
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The Source Value of Arabic Typikon-Manuscripts as Testimonials for the Byzantinization of the Melkites

2021

With the expansion of Islam, the patriarchates of Antioch, Jerusalem, and Alexandria were divided from the Byzantine Empire. The Orthodox Christians there still defined themselves as Byzantine Orthodox and began to adapt their liturgical customs by adopting Byzantine liturgical books. When Greek was not understood any longer, they began to translate and copy their liturgical books, thereby creating their own branch of tradition, which is marked by multilingualism, reception of their own Bible tradition as well as the exclusion of “neo-martyrs” from their calendar of saints.

Value (ethics)HistoryArabicliturgymedia_common.quotation_subjectRūm-OrthodoxBL1-2790liturgical reformTypikonMelkiteMultilingualismSyriac Christianitymedia_commonmanuscriptReligions. Mythology. RationalismReligious studiesEmpireIslamlanguage.human_languageByzantine RiteArabic ChristianityTypikonlanguageLiturgyClassicsByzantine architectureReligions
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