Door alle eeuwen en culturen heen hebben mensen zich - op verschillende manieren - met de toekomst bezig gehouden. In onze tijd, waarin de toekomst van de aarde (en dus ook van de mensheid) meer dan ooit op het spel staat, is het dringend nodig om tussen illusie en wanhoop wegen te vinden naar een realistisch perspectief, dat hoop geeft op de toekomst - zelfs al is die uit de moed der wanhoop geboren.

Dit boek is een zoektocht naar deze middenweg tussen doemdenken en illusie.

This volume is the first complete critical edition of Peter of Auvergne’s Questiones super I-VII libros Politicorum. The Questiones was produced at the Faculty of Arts of Paris sometime between late 1291 and 1296 and is the earliest surviving commentary in question form on Aristotle’s Politics. As the introduction explains, the Questiones was philosophically innovative and became the most influential question-commentary on the Politics in the Middle Ages. The volume also includes a critic...

Long considered one of late scholasticism’s most important thinkers, Francisco Suárez has, paradoxically enough, often been treated only in relation to other medieval authors or as a transitional figure in the shift from medieval to Early Modern philosophy. As such, his thought has often been obscured and framed in terms of an alien paradigm. This book seeks to correct such approaches and examines Suárez's metaphysical thinking as it stands on its own. Suárez is shown to be much more in ...