This book examines the place of physical bodies, a major topic of natural philosophy that has occupied philosophers since antiquity. Aristotle’s conceptions of place (topos) and the void (kenon), as expounded in the Physics, were systematically repudiated by John Philoponus (ca. 485-570) in his philosophical commentary on that work. The primary philosophical concern of the present study is the in-depth investigation of the concept of place established by Philoponus, putting forward the clai...

Articles 56–59 of Henry of Ghent’s Summa is devoted to the trinitarian properties. Henry was the most important Christian theological thinker in the last quarter of the 13th century and his works were influential not only in his lifetime, but also in the following century and into the Renaissance.

Henry’s Quaestiones ordinariae (Summa), articles 56–59 deal with the trinitarian properties and relations, topics of Henry’s lectures at the university in Paris. In these articles, dated a...

A Text Worthy of Plotinus makes available for the first time information on the collaborative work that went into the completion of the first reliable edition of Plotinus’ Enneads: Plotini Opera, editio maior, three volumes (Brussels, Paris, and Leiden, 1951-1973), followed by the editio minor, three volumes (Oxford, 1964-1983). Pride of place is given to the correspondence of the editors, Paul Henry S.J. and Hans-Rudolf Schwyzer, with other prominent scholars of late antiquity, amongst who...

Speciale editie De Verlichting

De Verlichting: machtige stroming waarin de rede de toon zet

De moderne tijd begon met de Verlichting. Mensenrechten, democratie, scheiding van kerk en staat, de wetenschappelijke methode, vrouwenemancipatie: al deze mooie zaken zijn terug te voeren op denkbeelden die opbloeiden in de achttiende eeuw. Het debat over de betekenis van de doorbraak van de rede blijft doorgaan. Critici klagen over een doorgeschoten rationalisme en morele leegte.

De speciale editie D...