Alfonso de la Torre's Vision deleytable : : philosophical rationalism and the religious imagination in 15th century Spain /

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

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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)
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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.

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