Alfonso de la Torre's Vision deleytable : : philosophical rationalism and the religious imagination in 15th century Spain / / Luis M. Giron-Negron.

• VerfasserIn: Girón-Negrón, Luis M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2001]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Series: Medieval Iberian Peninsula
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (324 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- ABBREVIATIONS -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Philosophical Didacticism and Visión Deleytable: Jewish and Christian Contexts in 15th Century Spain -- Originality and the Encyclopedic Tradition -- Latin Scholasticism in 15th Century Spain -- Alfonso de la Torre and Salamancan Scholasticism -- 1. Biographical Sketch -- 2. Scholasticism and Christian Doctrine in Visión Deleytable -- Visión Deleytable and the Didactic Tradition -- De la Torre's Philosophy Curriculum: a Hispano-Jewish Context -- Spanish Translations of Hebrew Literature in the 15th Century -- Some Remarks on 15th Century Jewish Philosophy Curricula -- Visión Deleytable, Popular Skepticism and the Radical Aristotelians -- Chapter Two: Alfonso de la Torre's Religious Philosophy -- Introduction -- The Narrative Frame of Visión Deleytable -- Visión's Curriculum: An Overview -- The Mountain's Ascent: Alfonso de la Torre on the Liberal Arts -- 1. Grammar -- 2. Logic -- 3. Rhetoric -- 4. Arithmetic -- "In the House of Wisdom": Metaphysics and Theology in Visión -- 1. On the Conditions for the Study of Philosophy -- 2. Divine Existence, Unity and lncorporeality -- 3. Divine Omnipotence and Divine Knowledge -- 4. Divine Goodness and the Final End of the World -- 5. Providence -- 6. Astrology -- 7. Cosmogony -- 8. Angelology and Prophecy: Some General Remarks -- 9. Kabbalah and Magic -- "In the House of Nature": Natural Philosophy in Visión Deleytable -- 1. Cosmology -- 2. Intellect and Immortality -- "In the House of Reason": De la Torre's Moral Philosophy -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Bien aventurança as the Ultimate Good -- 3. Towards the Aristotelian Doctrine of Virtue: the Natural Passions -- 4. The Cardinal Virtues -- 5. Politics and Economics -- 6. The End of Man According to Reason -- Conclusion.

Chapter Three: The Medieval and Renaissance Fate of Visión Deleytable -- Introduction -- The Editorial Fate of Visión Deleytable -- Visión Deleytable in the 15th Century and the Golden Age -- Philosophical Themes in Medieval Spanish Literature -- Providence and Fortune in 15th Century Spanish Literature -- Juan de Mena's Laberinto de Fortuna -- Cosmogony and Theodicy in Santillana's Bias contra Fortuna -- Fernando de Rojas as a Reader of Visión -- Concluding Remarks: Visión Deleytable and the Study of Religion -- Bibliography -- Index Nominum -- MEDIEVAL IBERIAN PENINSULA.