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John Barclay Icon animorum or The mirror of minds
Original Latin text with English translation on facing pages. In this essay from 1614 the Neo-Latin poet, translator, and commentator John Barclay describes the manners and mores of his European contemporaries. He derives the sources of an individual's peculiarities of behavior and temperament from the 'genius' - the individual character created by each person's upbringing, time of life, and profession. Barclay likewise describes each nation's genius, its national character, and provides some of...
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Engels | Latijn | 380 pagina's (PDF, 1,7 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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John P. Doyle On the borders of being and knowing
some late scholastic thoughts on supertranscendental being
Sylvester Mauro, S.J. (1619-1687) noted that human intellects can grasp what is,what is not, what can be, and what cannot be. The first principle, 'it is not possible that the same thing simultaneously be and not be,' involves them all. The present volume begins with Greeks distinguishing 'being' from 'something' and proceeds to the late Scholastic doctrine of 'supertranscendental being,' which embraces both. On the way is Aristotle's distinction between 'being as being' and 'being as true' and his...
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Engels | 350 pagina's (PDF, 3,7 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
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Franco Trabattoni Essays on Plato’s epistemology
An Innovating approach to Plato's philosophy. Through a careful survey of several significant Platonic texts, mainly focussing on the nature of knowledge, Essays on Plato's Epistemology offers the reader a fresh and promising approach to Plato's philosophy as a whole. From the very earliest reception of Plato's philosophy, there has been a conflict between a dogmatic and a sceptical interpretation of his work and thought. Moreover, the two sides are often associated, respectively, with a metaphysical...
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Engels | 336 pagina's (PDF, 1,8 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Simon Verdegem Plutarch's Life of Alcibiades
story, text and moralism
At the beginning of the second century AD, Plutarch of Chaeronea wrote a series of pairs of biographies of Greek and Roman statesmen. Their purpose is moral: the reader is invited to reflect on important ethical issues and to use the example of these great men from the past to improve his or her own conduct. This book offers the first full-scale commentary on the Life of Alcibiades. It examines how Plutarch's biography of one of classical Athens' most controversial politicians functions within the...
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Engels | 499 pagina's (PDF, 5,5 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
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Geert Roskam A commentary on Plutarch's De latenter vivendo
Plutarch's De latenter vivendo is the only extant work from Antiquity in which Epicurus' famous ideal of an 'unnoticed life' (lathe biosas) is thematised as such. Moreover, the short rhetorical work provides a lot of interesting information about Plutarch's polemical strategies and about his own philosophical convictions in the domains of ethics, politics, metaphysics, and eschatology. In this book, Plutarch's anti-Epicurean polemic is understood against the background of the previous philosophical...
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Engels | 279 pagina's (PDF, 2,2 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, [Leuven] | 2017
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Geert Roskam Plutarch's Maxime cum principibus philosopho esse disserendum
an interpretation with commentary
The question of the political relevance of philosophy, and of the role which the philosopher should play in the government of his state, was often discussed in Antiquity. Plato's ideal of the philosopher-king is well-known, but was precisely his failure to realise his political ideal in Syracuse not the best argument against the philosopher's political engagement? Nevertheless, Plato's ideal remained attractive for later Greek thinkers. This is illustrated, for instance, by one of Plutarch's short...
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Engels | 252 pagina's (PDF, 3,9 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
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Andrea Alciati Andreae Alciati contra vitam monasticam epistula
Criticism of monastic life by one of Europe's major Renaissance figures. In his letter Against Monastic Life (1514-17) Andrea Alciato, an Italian jurist and writer famous for his Emblemata, urges his friend Bernardus Mattius to reconsider his choice of monastic life. Alciato makes his argument by criticizing religious superstition, the Church's hierarchy, and monastic practices, particularly the Franciscans' hypocrisy, wealth, and divisiveness. Instead, he defends a stoic, civic humanism. Due to...
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Latijn | Engels | 144 pagina's (PDF, 2 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
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Doing double Dutch
the international circulation of literature from the Low Countries
The importance of a minor language in the field of world literature. Dutch literature is increasingly understood as a network of texts and poetics connected to other languages and literatures through translations and adaptations. In this book, a team of international researchers explores how Dutch literary texts cross linguistic, historical, geophysical, political, religious, and disciplinary borders, and reflects on a wide range of methods for studying these myriad border crossings. As a result,...
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Engels | 336 pagina's (PDF, 6,1 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2018
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Marry de Gaay Fortman Don't drown a dead duck
the art of gentle effectiveness
Adviezen aan vrouwen die streven naar een topfunctie in het bedrijfsleven.
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Engels | 151 pagina's (ePub2, 2,2 MB) | Business Contact, Amsterdam | 2019
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Re:Thinking Europe
thoughts on Europe: past, present and future
What are the characteristics of European culture and identity? In which way can culture contribute to the current crisis of meaning within the EU and Europe? And should we return to the discourse of culture and historical experience in order to find a common ground for Europe? In the run-up to the Forum we will publish an anthology on these urgent questions. A host of prominent and influential thinkers such as political scientist Ivan Krastev and historians Philipp Blom and Adam Zamoyski have been...
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Engels | 318 pagina's (PDF, 1,9 MB) | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2016
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Peter Olsthoorn The price we pay for Google
The growth of Google as a gate to information and entertainment is as dizzying as it is fascinating. 'I can't imagine a life without Google', is an often heard saying. There is a blind trust at its ground, but are we aware of Google's selection processes and what it does with the information on our behavior on the internet? The search results are getting more and more personal and the so-called 'free' services are paid for by the information on our surf behavior. We have become both the producer...
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Engels | 71 pagina's (ePub2, 0,6 MB) | Eburon Elements, Delft | 2016
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Stichting Nederlandse Orgelmonografieën The profusion of Heaven
the organs of the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam
The two seventeenth-century organs of the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam are world-famous. They form an undisputed climax to organ building in the Netherlands in the Golden Age. This book is the first standard work on this earthly reflection of heavenly harmony. The organs are among the oldest in the Netherlands. The main organ was built in 1655 by the famous organ builder Hans Wolff Schonat. The monumental case was designed by Jacob van Campen, the celebrated architect of the Royal Palace on the Dam....
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Engels | 313 pagina's (ePub2, 22 MB) | Walburg Pers, Zutphen | 2016
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Vincent Vermeulen What we can learn from the butler
Waarom zijn butlers zo'n innemende, correcte personen die altijd klaar staan en nooit een steek laten vallen? Omdat dat hun beroep is, zegt u? Fout: in de allereerste plaats is het een levenswijze, een constant het-beste van jezelf vragen. Ze gebruiken daarvoor technieken die ieder van ons kan aanleren. Want zeg nu zelf, zijn we niet allemaal toe aan verbetering? In dit boek leert Vincent Vermeulen, ervaren butler en directeur van de 'School for Butlers & Hospitality', hoe kennis over etiquette,...
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Engels | 192 pagina's (ePub2, 0,8 MB) | Borgerhoff & Lamberigts, Ghent | 2016
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W.F. Denslagen Observations on urban aesthetics
London, Paris and New York
London, Paris and New York were each designated as 'capital of the world' in the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Besides their cultural importance, they were also admired for their beauty. How travellers described these cityscapes is the theme of this book. Why is it interesting to look at these cities through the eyes of travellers from the past who visited places, which have changed over time? Well, firstly, because if you always restrict your views on architecture by only looking...
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Engels | 156 pagina's (ePub2, 22 MB) | U2pi, Voorburg | 2016
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The concept of love in 17th and 18th century philosophy
"Love is joy with the accompanying idea of an external cause." Spinoza's definition of love (Ethics Book 3, Prop. LIX) manifests a major paradigm shift achieved by seventeenth century Europe in which the emotions, formerly seen as normative "forces of nature," were embraced by the new science of the mind. We are determined to volition by causes. This shift has often been seen as a transition from a philosophy laden with implicit values and assumptions to a more scientific and value-free way of understanding...
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Engels | Frans | Duits | 270 pagina's (PDF, 1,3 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
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Recognition and redistribution in multinational federations
World's leading theorists of multinational justice on sub-state national minority groups. Almost without exception, multinational states across the West are facing existential crises precipitated by the resurgence of sub-state national minority groups. This edited volume brings together many of the world's leading theorists of multinational justice in order to analyse two of the most frequent areas of debate and dispute in multinational federations: recognition and redistribution. The authors address...
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Engels | 246 pagina's (PDF, 2,3 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Origins and ends of the mind
philosophical essays on psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis claims that the individual human mind is structured by its childhood relationships with its parents. But the theory of attachment, evolutionary psychology and contemporary philosophy of mind have all recently re-introduced new dimensions of innateness into mental development and pathology. If attachment is an instinct, then what is the psychological status of the child's relation to the mother? If the mind is in part a product of evolution, then how far down do the inhibitory mechanisms...
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Engels | 218 pagina's (PDF, 1,3 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Science translated
Latin and vernacular translations of scientific treatises in medieval Europe
Medieval translators played an important role in the development and evolution of a scientific lexicon. At a time when most scholars deferred to authority, the translations of canonical texts assumed great importance. Moreover, translation occurred at two levels in the Middle Ages. First, Greek or Arabic texts were translated into the learned language, Latin. Second, Latin texts became source-texts themselves, to be translated into the vernaculars as their importance across Europe started to increase....
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Engels | Frans | 478 pagina's (PDF, 5,6 MB) | Leiven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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The return of the deficit
public finance in Belgium over 2000-2010
An in-depth analysis of Belgium's public finance in the recent past. Prior to the outbreak of the financial crisis in 2008 Belgium's fiscal balances and debt ratios seemed to be on a firm consolidation path. Today, however, Belgium is facing a major budgetary challenge, albeit to some extent lesser than that of other European countries. A proper understanding of the current situation and the design of the most appropriate policy response always benefit from an in-depth analysis of the recent past....
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Engels | 328 pagina's (PDF, 6,2 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Vladimir Safatle Grand hotel Abyss
desire, recognition and the restoration of the subject
Long-expected translation of the Portuguese academic bestseller Grande Hotel Abismo. In the last two decades recognition - arguably one of the most central notions of the dialectical tradition since Hegel - has once again become a crucial philosophical theme. Nevertheless, the new theories of recognition fail to provide room for reflection on transformation processes in politics and morality. This book aims to recover the disruptive nature of the dialectical tradition by means of a severe critique...
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Engels | 322 pagina's (PDF, 1,2 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
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