Can I read Pagans and Philosophers (The Problem of Paganism from Augustine to Leibniz) on EtoBox?

Pagans and Philosophers (The Problem of Paganism from Augustine to Leibniz) by Marenbon, John is a scholarly article available to read on EtoBox.

What is Pagans and Philosophers (The Problem of Paganism from Augustine to Leibniz) about?

An ambitious history of how medieval writers came to terms with paganism From the turn of the fifth century to the beginning of the eighteenth, Christian writers were fascinated and troubled by the "Problem of Paganism," which this book identifies and examines for the first time. How could the wisdom and virtue of the great thinkers of antiquity be reconciled with the fact that they were pagans and, many thought, damned? Related questions were raised by encounters with contemporary pagans in northern Europe, Mongolia, and, later, America and China. Pagans and Philosophers explores how writers—philosophers and theologians, but also poets such as Dante, Chaucer, and Langland, and travelers such as Las Casas and Ricci—tackled the Problem of Paganism. Augustine and Boethius set its terms, while Peter Abelard and John of Salisbury were important early advocates of pagan wisdom and virtue. University theologians such as Aquinas, Scotus, Ockham, and Bradwardine, and later thinkers such as Ficino, Valla, More, Bayle, and Leibniz, explored the difficulty in depth. Meanwhile, Albert the Great inspired Boethius of Dacia and others to create a relativist conception of scientific knowledge tha

Author

Marenbon, John

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400866359