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Cesare Cremonini – Scientist of the Day

Cesare Cremonini, an Italian natural philosopher, died July 19, 1631, at the age of 81. 

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I guess I ran out of time lol

can someone HELP ME-

sooo I'm gonna present an academic research on 21th of May out of town and the due date of sending the reports is 2nd of May

I barely passed the abstract

uhhhhhhh what do I do? It's approximately about Averroism and modern science idea

I'm about to scream

[hyperions-fate]

Dreaming of the utopia Europe could have been had Ibn Sina and Siger of Brabant won out over the Catholic Church.

[ancientidea34]

Ibn Rushd and Modern Western Thought.

Ibn Rushd and Modern Western Thought.

Ibn Rushd and Modern Western Thought XIII-XIV. XIV-XVI centuries in France. According to the newly found texts, Averroism, which was widespread in Italy in the XIV-XV centuries. It is seen that it is common in Northeastern Europe in the centuries. As a matter of fact, it is understood from the writings of Magister Thedoricus, who wrote a commentary on De Anima in the city of Erfurt, that he was…

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Today in Christian History

Today is Monday, December 10th, the 344th day of 2018. There are 21 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:

1270: The Bishop of Paris condemns Averroism through the efforts of Thomas Aquinas and other theologians. Averroism taught the eternality of the world, denied providence and free will, and set philosophy above faith and Scripture.

1520: German reformer Martin Luther publicly burns Pope Leo X’s bull Exsurge Domine, which demands that Luther recant his “heresies,” including justification by faith alone.

1524: Henry van Zutphen, an Augustinian monk who had become a Lutheran minister, is burned to death in Holstein by a drunken mob incited by religious and secular authorities.

1561: Death of Polish-German reformer Kaspar Schwenkfeld, who rejected infant baptism, said that conversion must produce a regenerated character to be real, and taught that Christ had two natures but became progressively more divine. He also held that true believers eat the spiritual body of Christ in Communion.

1569: Death in Wittenberg of Lutheran hymnwriter Paul Eber. Some of his hymns were written for his own children.

1593: Italian archaeologist Antonio Bosio makes his first descent into Christian burial chambers located under the streets of Rome and is almost unable to find his way back out, having forgotten the turns he had taken and used up his candles. Bosio will be dubbed the “Columbus of the Catacombs,” and his books will long remain the standard works on the underground tombs of the early Roman Church.

1679: Two hundred and fifty seven defeated Scottish Covenanters are shipwrecked in the Crown of London off the coast of Scotland, their captors having earlier battened the hatches to prevent their escape. After the ship breaks up, only a few survivors reach shore.

1854: Hector Berlioz’ L’Enfance du Christ receives its first public performance at the Salle Herz, Paris, with Berlioz conducting and soloists from the Opéra-Comique. Berlioz himself had written the words. It will remain a popular Christmas piece into the twenty-first century.

1860: Peru promulgates a constitution that makes Roman Catholicism the national religion and obligates the State to protect it, while denying the public exercise of any other religion.

1960: Marriage of Ruth Magongo to Enoch Litswele. The two will serve as Nazarene missionaries and educators in various African countries, learning several languages in order to communicate with the tribes among whom they work and translating hymns into local tongues.

1968: Death of the influential Swiss theologian, Karl Barth, best known for his commentary on Paul’s epistle to the Romans and for his stand with the Confessing Church against the Nazis.

Death of Thomas Merton in Bangkok, Thailand. The Trappist monk was famed for writings such as The Seven Storey Mountain and had been an outspoken critic of American involvement in the Vietnam War.

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Conversos and the Rise of Secularism

Conversos and the Rise of Secularism

The rise of a secular alternative to Jewish life was the product of a series of complicated events and trends brought about in part by the Renaissance, the Age of Reason, and various wide ranging political changes in Europe.  It was also brought about in part by changing views on Jewish religious texts. Jewish individuals like Azariah Dei Rossi of the 16th century opened the door for textual and…

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[exoergo]

Agamben

In Western thought, the problem of form-of-life has emerged as an ethical problem (ethos, the mode of life of an individual or group) or as an aesthetic problem (the style by which the author leaves his mark on the work). Only if we restore it to the ontological dimension will the problem of style and mode of life be able to find its just formulation. And this can happen only in the form of something like an “ontology of style” or a doctrine that is in a position to respond to the question: “What does it mean that multiple modes modify or express the one substance?”

In the history of philosophy, the place where this problem has been posed is Averroism, as a problem of the conjunction (copulatio) between the singular individual and the one intellect. According to Averroës, the mean term that allows this union is the imagination: the singular is joined to the possible or material intellect through the phantasms of its imagination. The conjunction can happen, however, only if the intellect strips the phantasms of their material elements, to the point of produc­ing, in the act of thought, a perfectly bare image, something like an ab­solute imago. This means that the phantasm is what the singular sensible body marks on the intellect to the same extent to which the inverse is true, namely, that it is what the one intellect works and marks in the singular. In the contemplated image, the singular sensible body and the one intellect coincide, which is to say, fall together. The questions “who contemplates the image?” and “what is united to what?” do not have a univocal response. (Averroistic poets, like Cavalcanti and Dante, made love the place of this experience, in which the phantasm contemplated is at once subject and object of love and the intellect knows and loves itself in the image.)

What we call form-of-life corresponds to this ontology of style; it names the mode in which a singularity bears witness to itself in being and being expresses itself in the singular body.