• Vorwort / Dietrich Böschung und Alfred Schäfer
• Landeskunde als politische Argumentation : Enea Silvio Piccolominis De Europa / Karl Enenkel
• Mentale Karten der Frühen Neuzeit : Die Bewältigung des historischen Raumes in der Italia Illustrata von Flavio Biondo / Tanja Michalsky
• Raum und Geschichte in Biondo Flavios wissenschaftlichem Œuvre / Marc Laureys
• Spanische Landeskunde zur Zeit Philipps II. / Markus Trunk
• Terra septentrionalia illustrata : Zur Legitimierung und Medialität des Raumwissens in Olaus Magnus’ Carta marina (1539) und Historia degentibus septentrionalibus (1555) / Stephan Michael Schröder
• Ägidius Tschudi und seine Gallia Comata / Dietrich Böschung
• Von Stephan Pighius zu Hermann Ewich : archäologische Landeskunde am Niederrhein im Berliner Nachlass / Kathrin Schade
• Alexander Wiltheim (1604-1684) : Ein Luxemburger Jesuit als Wegbereiter der wissenschaftlichen Archäologie im Raum zwischen Maas und Rhein / Jean Krier
• Das antiquarische Netzwerk des Sammlers Graf Hermann von Manderscheid-Blankenheim (1535-1604) : Eine Zwischenbilanz / Norbert Hanel
• Basilius Amerbach (1533-1591) und das römische Theater in Augst / Thomas Hufschmid
• Topographische Studien zum römischen Köln um 1600 / Alfred Schäfer
• Text und Artefakt : Zum Diskurs mittelrheinischer Humanisten über Mainz im Altertum / Uta Goerlitz
• Autorinnen und Autoren
• Tafeln.

• Part I. Greek Philosophies of "Physis".-
• Chapter 1. Physis in Empedocles (Michael Shaw).-
• Chapter 2. The Ambivalence of Eros: Plato's Natural Beginning(s) (Joshua Hayes).-
• Chapter 3. Folding Nature Back Upon Itself: Aristotle and the Rebirth of Physis (Marjolein Oele).- Part II. The Modern Turn in Nature.-
• Chapter 4. Kant's `Other Nature (Angelica Nuzzo).-
• Chapter 5. Hegel's Anti-Ontology of Nature (Sebastian Rand).-
• Chapter 6. Novalis, Nature and the Absolute (Jane Kneller).- Part III. Phenomenologists and Post-Modern Thinkers on Nature.-
• Chapter 7. An Ecology of the Future (Gerard Kuperus).-
• Chapter 8. Nature (or Not) In Heidegger (Nancy Holland).-
• Chapter 9. Precarious Communities: Towards a Phenomenology of Extinction (Brett Buchanan).-
• Chapter 10. Stratification, Dependence, and Nonanthropocentrism: Nicolai Hartmann's Critical Ontology (Keith Peterson).-
• Chapter 11. Naturalism, Estrangement, and Resistance: On the Lived Senses of Nature (Ted Toadvine).-
• Chapter 12. Given to Bewilderment, Hand to Limb (Peter Steeves).-
• Chapter 13. When Washing Rice, Know that the Water is Your Own Life: An Essay on Dogen in the Age of Fast Food (Jason Wirth).
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This volume contains essays that offer both historical and contemporary views of nature, as seen through a hermeneutic, deconstructive, and phenomenological lens. It reaches back to Ancient Greek conceptions of physis in Homer and Empedocles, encompasses 13th century Zen master Dogen, and extends to include 21st Century Continental Thought. By providing ontologies of nature from the perspective of the history of philosophy and of contemporary philosophy alike, the book shows that such perspectives need to be seen in dialogue with each other in order to offer a deeper and more comprehensive philosophy of nature. The value of the historical accounts discussed lies in discerning the conceptual problems that contribute to the dominant thinking underpinning our ecological predicament, as well as in providing helpful resources for thinking innovatively through current problems, thus recasting the past to allow for a future yet to be imagined. The book also discusses contemporary continental thinkers who are more critically aware of the dominant anthropocentric and instrumental view of nature, and who provide substantial guidance for a sensible, innovative "ontology of nature" suited for an ecology of the future. Overall, the ontologies of nature discerned in this volume are not merely of theoretical interest, but strategically serve to suspend anthropocentrism and spark ethical and political reorientation in the context of our current ecological predicament.
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• Foi et raison. Remarques autour d'un paradigme métaphysique
• "Homo non intelligendo fit omnia". Vico et la métaphysique poétique
• La critique berkeleyenne de la matière : une dialectique du sens commun et de la métaphysique
• Critique de la métaphysique, philosophie première et construction du réel chez Hume
• Vérité métaphysique et vérité politique chez Edmund Burke. Une critique politique de la raison pure
• Les Lettres IV et V à Serena de John Toland. Une réforme métaphysique de l'éthique spinoziste ?
• Mendelssohn, Wachter et les origines du Spinoza idéaliste
• L'ordre naturel selon Needham. Métaphysique et philosophie expérimentale
• Johann Georg Sulzer. La psychologie comme "physique de l'âme"
• Deux périodes et métaphysiques de l'Aufklärung. Herder et sa critique de Wolff
• Métaphysique et mathématique chez Lambert. Une réponse à la Preisfrage de 1763
• L'anthropologie, fille de la psychologie rationnelle ou de la psychologie empirique de l'Aufklärung ?
• La réduction matérialiste de la métaphysique dans les Lumières françaises (Diderot, d'Holbach, La Mettrie)
• Des billevesées de l'une à la sublimité de l'autre. Les métaphysiques de Diderot
• L'aggiornamento de la métaphysique chez l'abbé Bergier et chez Naigeon.

"Cet ouvrage présente le destin de la métaphysique au siècle des Lumières. Derrière le schéma classique d'une substitution de l'anthropologie à la métaphysique caractérisant les Lumières, les études réunies dans ce volume montrent l'évolution du champ de la métaphysique, sa redéfinition, ses métamorphoses au sein d'une modernité en pleine évolution. L'intérêt est de dévoiler comment la métaphysique évolue, s'adapte à de nouvelles problématiques, et cela en tenant compte de la complexité des situations particulières propres aux Lumières européennes."--Page 4 of cover.

• List of illustrations Notes on Editors and Contributors Acknowledgements Values, Norms and Ideologies in Early Modern Inquiry: An Introduction Tamas Demeter Reason and Common Culture in Early-Modern Natural Philosophy: Variations on an Epistemic Theme Peter Dear Devices and Epistemic Values Sixteenth-Century Hydraulic Engineers and the Emergence of Empiricism Matteo Valleriani Visual Perception and the Cartesian Concept of Mind: Descartes and the Camera Obscura Daniel Schmal The Epistemology of Testimony Testimony and Empiricism: John Sergeant, John Locke, and the Social History of Truth John Henry Eight Days of Darkness in
• 1600: Hume on Whether Testimony Can Establish Miracles Falk Wunderlich Religion and Inquiry Kepler's Revolutionary Astronomy: Theological Unity as a Comprehensive View of the World Giora Hon Natural Theology as Superstition: David Hume and the Changing Ideology of Natural Inquiry Tamas Demeter The Problem of Parallels as a Protestant Issue in Eighteenth-Century Hungary Janos Tanacs Values in Controversy Newton's Strategic Manoeuvring with Simple Colours and Diagrams: A Radical Historical Interpretation Gabor Aron Zemplen The Birth of Epistemological Controversy from the Spirit of Conflict Avoidance: Hobbes on Science and Geometry Axel Gelfert The Methods and Epistemic Virtues of a `Science of Man' Analytic and Synthetic Method in the Human Sciences: A Hope that Failed Thomas Sturm The Science of Man and the Invention of Usable Traditions Eric Schliesser Ethics in Epistemology Francis Bacon on Charity and the Ends of Knowledge Sorana Corneanu Spinoza's Ethics: A Dominion within a Dominion Ruth Lorand What was Kant's Critical Philosophy Critical of? Catherine Wilson Index.
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Historical research in previous decades has done a great deal to explore the social and political context of early modern natural and moral inquiries. Particularly since the publication of Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer's Leviathan and the Air-Pump (1985) several studies have attributed epistemological stances and debates to clashes of political and theological ideologies. The present volume suggests that with an awareness of this context, it is now worth turning back to questions of the epistemic content itself. The contributors to the present collection were invited to explore how certain non-epistemic values had been turned into epistemic ones, how they had an effect on epistemic content, and eventually how they became ideologies of knowledge playing various roles in inquiry and application throughout early modern Europe.
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• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (Hans Ulrich Vogel); ABOUT THIS BOOK: RECONSIDERING A THEORY OF CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT (Günter Dux); List of Contributors; OVERVIEW (Mark Elvin); INTRODUCTIONS (Mark Elvin); THE GENESIS OF PHILOSOPHY IN THE HISTORY OF MIND: A CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON BETWEEN CLASSICAL GREECE AND CHINA (Günter Dux); THE UNIVERSE AS COSMOS: ON THE ONTOLOGY OF THE GREEK WORLD-IMAGE (Julián Pacho); THE NOTION OF CAUSALITY IN ARISTOTLE AND THE MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE: A DEVELOPMENTAL APPROACH (Ulrich Wenzel); COSMOLOGY AND CONCEPTS OF NATURE IN TRADITIONAL CHINA (John B. Henderson)

• THE MYRIAD THINGS: RANDOM THOUGHTS ON NATURE IN CHINA AND THE WEST (Wolfgang Kubin)ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MAN AND NATURE IN CHINA (Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer); INDEX.

This book, inspired by the sociologist Gunter Dux, co-edited by the historian Hans Ulrich Vogel, and introduced by Mark Elvin, is a collective intellectual masterpiece written by some of the world's leading scholars. Its purpose is to illuminate premodern Chinese ways of thinking about Nature by comparing them with their counterpart traditions in Europe. In so doing it also subtly reshapes our understanding of premodern European concepts of the natural world. The domains covered principally include philosophy, language, poetry, science, and mathematics, and their relations with society, technology, and politics. By analyzing the frequent partial similarities between these great two cultural areas in the context of their overall contrasts, it points the way for the first time to defining accurately the differences that have been critical for world history.
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This book, inspired by the sociologist Gunter Dux, co-edited by the historian Hans Ulrich Vogel, and introduced by Mark Elvin, is a collective intellectual masterpiece written by some of the world's leading scholars. Its purpose is to illuminate premodern Chinese ways of thinking about Nature by comparing them with their counterpart traditions in Europe. In so doing it also subtly reshapes our understanding of premodern European concepts of the natural world. The domains covered principally include philosophy, language, poetry, science, and mathematics, and their relations with society, technology, and politics. By analyzing the frequent partial similarities between these great two cultural areas in the context of their overall contrasts, it points the way for the first time to defining accurately the differences that have been critical for world history.
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• Introduction (H.-C. Gunther) PART I THE INTERCULTURAL CONTEXT
• Chapter I Haben die Woerter " (ren, Mensch)" in der Fruhlings- und Herbstzeit/im Zeitalter der Kampfenden Reiche (770-221 V. Chr) sowie "homme" im neuzeitlichen und modernen Franzoesischen stets die umfassende Bedeutung "Mensch" im Sinne der Universalen Erklarung der Menschenrechte vom
• 10. Dezember 1948? (Harro von Senger)
• Chapter II Der Mensch zwischen Selbsterkenntnis und Erkenntnis des Selbst in buddhistisch-christlicher Perspektive (Michael Fuss)
• Chapter III Gottesebenbildlichkeit und Gottesstellvertreterschaft in islamischen Menschenrechtsbegrundungen (L. Richter-Bernburg) PART II GREECE AND ROME
• Chapter IV Das stoische Gesetz der Natur und seine Rezeption bei Cicero (Robert Bees)
• Chapter V La donna romana, fra vita reale e letteratura (Paolo Fedeli)
• Chapter VI Enea e Turno: il duello finale (Paolo Fedeli)
• Chapter VII Das Leiden der Liebe: Zur Unveranderlichkeit und Leidensfahigkeit des christlichen Gottes (Markus Enders)
• Chapter VIII Humanization in Late Antique and Byzantine Philosophy (Dominic J. O'Meara) PART III THE MIDDLE AGES, THE RENAISSANCE AND BEYOND
• Chapter IX Individual Rights and Common Good: Henry of Ghent and the Scholastic Origins of Human Rights (Pasquale Porro)
• Chapter X Aristotelian "Scientia" and the Medieval "Artes" (Charles Lohr)
• Chapter XI Nicholas of Cusa and the Anthropology of Peace (Paul Richard Blum)
• Chapter XII Giordano Bruno's Criticism of Globalization (Elisabeth Blum)
• Chapter XIII La dignite de l'homme chez Dante: une question preliminaire (Andrea A. Robiglio)
• Chapter XIV Figuren des Menschen bei Dante: Ulisse (Ruedi Imbach)
• Chapter XV Dante's Commedia and Goethe's Faust. Similarities and Differences (Vittorio Hoesle)
• Chapter XVI A Jesuit Comedy on the Morality of Soldiers (Paul Richard Blum) MODERN TIMES
• Chapter XVII Kunst und Technik bei Martin Heidegger (Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann)
• Chapter XVIII Martin Heideggers Auslegung des Menschen als Zoon logon echon bei Aristoteles (Bodgan Minca)
• Chapter XIX Sein zum Tode: Tolstoj versus Heidegger (Tatiana Shchyttsova)
• Chapter XX Europe between Agony and Hope: Christianity, History and Violence in Maria Zambrano (Giusi Strummiello)
• Chapter XXI Intergeneratives oder gemeinschaftliches Leben? Eine radikalphanomenologische Skizze (Rolf Kuhn)
• Chapter XXII Brain-Computer-Interface (BCI) in Paralysis (Niels Birbaumer/Ander Ramos Murguialday/Moritz Wildgruber/Leonardo G. Cohen)
• Chapter XXIII Intelligent Technical Systems: Can they Surpass Human Skills? (Dieter Roller) List of Contributors Index.
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The present volumes unites papers which explore the European image of god and man as the unquestioned basis of the concept which determines what western society defines as human rights and puts it in an intercultural context by comparative essays on chinese, islamic and buddhist thinking. The volume covers issues which range from classical antiquity until contemporary philosophy and science.
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• Corrupting the fountains of knowledge
• Linguistic turns: Leibniz, Tooke, and Coleridge
• Kant and the error of subreption
• The madness of the middle
• "Inaccurate, as lady linguists often are": Herodotus and Kleist on the language of the Amazons
• Conclusion: a dirty word.

Eighteenth-century Europe, preoccupied with both the origins and the defense of reason, was naturally concerned with what might be the root of all error. A topic any systematic account of knowledge must grapple with, error became a frequent point of debate in new scientific, aesthetic, and philosophical investigations. Taking John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding as his point of departure, Sng examines a number of such debates, focusing on literary and philosophical accounts of the relationship between language and thought. Rather than approaching its topic conceptually or historically, he takes on canonical texts of the Enlightenment and Romanticism and engages with their rhetorical strategies. In so doing, Sng elucidates how people wrote about error and how texts claimed to produce reliable and error-free modes of knowledge. The range of authors addressed-Leibniz, Adam Smith, Coleridge, Kant, and Goethe-demonstrates the diversity and heterogeneity underlying the textual production of the age.
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• Corrupting the fountains of knowledge
• Linguistic turns: Leibniz, Tooke, and Coleridge
• Kant and the error of subreption
• The madness of the middle
• "Inaccurate, as lady linguists often are": Herodotus and Kleist on the language of the Amazons
• Conclusion: a dirty word.

Eighteenth-century Europe, preoccupied with both the origins and the defense of reason, was naturally concerned with what might be the root of all error. A topic any systematic account of knowledge must grapple with, error became a frequent point of debate in new scientific, aesthetic, and philosophical investigations. Taking John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding as his point of departure, Sng examines a number of such debates, focusing on literary and philosophical accounts of the relationship between language and thought. Rather than approaching its topic conceptually or historically, he takes on canonical texts of the Enlightenment and Romanticism and engages with their rhetorical strategies. In so doing, Sng elucidates how people wrote about error and how texts claimed to produce reliable and error-free modes of knowledge. The range of authors addressed-Leibniz, Adam Smith, Coleridge, Kant, and Goethe-demonstrates the diversity and heterogeneity underlying the textual production of the age.
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• Part I. Introduction:
• 1. The West and the self-- Part II. Basics of Philosophical Psychology:
• 2. Heideggerian and Cartesian self--
• 3. Free will--
• 4. Cartesian, Lockean and Kantian self--
• 5. Extraordinariness and the two stages of rationality-- Part III. The Cartesian Self in History:
• 6. The cause and content of modernity--
• 7. The second-stage rationality in history--
• 8. Economic rationality--
• 9. The Cartesian self in the 20th century-- Part IV. Value Spheres:
• 10. A diagnosis and therapy for modernity--
• 11. Value spheres defined and the state--
• 12. The serving spheres--
• 13. Technology--
• 14. Utilitarian or Cartesian approach--
• 15. The media and other professions--
• 16. Science--
• 17. Art and religion--
• 18. Sport--
• 19. Latin and absolute love-- Part V. A Self-Understanding Not Only for the West:
• 20. Liberty and equality--
• 21. Harnessing extraordinariness--
• 22. Cartesian modernity--
• 23. The undivided universally developed individual--
• 24. The end of history?
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Ulrich Steinvorth offers a fresh analysis and critique of rationality as a defining element in Western thinking. Steinvorth argues that Descartes' understanding of the self offers a more plausible and realistic alternative to the prevailing understanding of the self formed by the Lockean conception and utilitarianism. When freed from Cartesian dualism, such a conceptualization enables us to distinguish between self and subject. Moreover, it enables us to understand why individualism - one of the hallmarks of modernity in the West - became a universal ideal to be granted to every member of society; how acceptance of this notion could peak in the seventeenth century; and why it is now in decline, though not irreversibly so. Most importantly, the Cartesian concept of the self presents a way of saving modernity from the dangers that it now encounters.
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• TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; FROM ENEMIES TO PEACEFUL NEIGHBORS; RESPONSIBILITY IN THE EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN TRADITION; RUSSIAN VALUES AND AMERICA; THE PERILS OF CROSS-CULTURAL INTERPRETATION; PART II; KAZIMIERZ AJDUKIEWICZ AS A FORERUNNER OF INTERNAL REALISM; A SPANIARD IN NEW ENGLAND; TOCQUEVILLE OR EMERSON; TRUTH IN PROGRESS; ERIC VOEGELIN AND AMERICAN CONSERVATISM; ROYCE'S PRAGMATIC AND IDEALISTIC AMERICAN BUSINESS ETHICS; WITTGENSTEIN, DEWEY, AND THE POSSIBILITY OF RELIGION; NIETZSCHE AND AMERICAN CULTURE; THE PRIMACY OF VALUE IN MAX SCHELER AND AMERICAN PRAGMATISM; PART III.

• NORMATIVE SCIENCESINTUITIONISTIC BACKGROUND OF EUROPEAN PRAGMATISM; GLOBALIZATION AND OUR VALUES; ECOLOGICAL VALUES AND LIBERAL DEMOCRACY; THE MODES OF DIALGOUE; DIMENSIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX.

American and European Values: Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives is a collection of essays by contemporary scholars considering key aspects of intersection and encounter between American and European values in the contemporary world. The truly international makeup of twenty-one contributors enlivens the book's theme in surprising, and frequently edifying ways. The authors consider, in places with revealing frankness, the cultural sensibilities unique to America and Europe, key historical philosophic figures, from John Dewey, Josiah Royce, and William James to Jean-Paul Sartre, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Mikhail Bakhtin. They also take up various philosophic trends and movements unique to the American and European traditions, including pragmatism, existentialism, phenomenology, and logical-linguistic analysis. Readers interested in deepening their understanding of the increasingly vital philosophical problems that continue to emerge with growing trends of globalization are invited into this rich conversation.
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Historians and cultural critics face special challenges when treating the non-human natural world in the medieval and early modern periods. Their most daunting problem is that in both the visual and written records of the time, nature seems to be both everywhere and nowhere. In the broadest sense, nature was everywhere, for it was vital to human survival. Agriculture, animal husbandry, medicine, and the patterns of human settlement all have their basis in natural settings. Humans also marked personal, community, and seasonal events by natural occurrences and built their cultural explanations around the workings of nature, which formed the unspoken backdrop for every historical event and document of the time.Yet in spite of the ubiquity of nature's continual presence in the physical surroundings and the artistic and literary cultures of these periods, overt discussion of nature is often hard to find. Until the sixteenth century, responses to nature were quite often recorded only in the course of investigating other subjects. In a very real sense, nature went without saying.As a result, modern scholars analyzing the concept of nature in the history of medieval and early modern Europe must often work in deeply interdisciplinary ways. This challenge is deftly handled by the contributors to "Engaging with Nature", whose essays provide insights into such topics as concepts of animal/human relationships; environmental and ecological history; medieval hunting; early modern collections of natural objects; the relationship of religion and nature; the rise of science; and the artistic representations of exotic plants and animals produced by Europeans encountering the New World.
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• Essences of glass, histories of humans
• A cock for Aesclepius : Plato, the Hippocratics, and Aristotle
• Excursus on will and passibility
• Cicero's person, passible minds, and real worlds
• Senecan surroundings
• How were slaves persons?
• How was personhood gendered?
• The public materiality of being human : Galen and medical traditions
• Two-timed ipseities and speaking their mind : Augustine
• Excursus on the middle ages
• Measuring tensions in the medieval microcosm
• Multum a me ipso differe compulsus sum
• Sparsa anime fragmenta recolligam
• Surrounded selves and public being : sixteenth-century strains
• Persons, passions, pictures : Loyola with Alberti
• Hélisenne's story : collective love, singular anger
• Public subject, personal passion : Montaigne
• Descartes, collective tradition, and personal agency
• Selfehood, political community, and a "Cartesian" future?

Through extensive readings in philosophical, legal, medical, and imaginative writing, this book explores notions and experiences of being a person from European antiquity to Descartes. It offers quite new interpretations of what it was to be a person - to experience who-ness - in other times and places, involving new understandings of knowing, willing, and acting, as well as of political and material life, the play of public and private, passions and emotions. The trajectory the author reveals reaches from the ancient sense of personhood as set in a totality of surroundings inseparable from the person, to an increasing sense of impermeability to the world, in which anger has replaced love in affirming a sense of self. The author develops his analysis through an impressive range of authors, languages, and texts: from Cicero, Seneca, and Galen; through Avicenna, Hildegard of Bingen, and Heloise and Abelard; to Petrarch, Montaigne, and Descartes.
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