Sökning: "Medieval Logic"

Hittade 4 avhandlingar innehållade orden Medieval Logic.

  1. 1. Varieties of Necessity in John Buridan : Logic and Natural Philosophy in the Late Middle Ages

    Författare :Guido Alt; Henrik Lagerlund; Jack Zupko; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History of Philosophy; John Buridan; Medieval Philosophy; Medieval Logic; Natural Philosophy; Nominalism; Modality; Natural Necessity; History of Logic; Philosophy in the Fourteenth Century; Philosophy; filosofi;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation is a study of John Buridan's (c.1300-c.1361) conception of modalities. Modal concepts - concepts of necessity, possibility, impossibility, and contingency - describe the ways in which things could and could not be otherwise. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Anicii Manlii Severini Boethii De syllogismo categorico : critical edition with an introduction

    Författare :Christina Thomsen Thörnqvist; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Anicius Manlius Seuerinus Boethius; De syllogismo categorico; 6th century; history of logic; Late Antiquity; Aristotle; Analytica priora; Peri hermeneias; De interpretatione; syllogism; Medieval logic.;

    Sammanfattning : The Roman statesman and philosopher Anicius Manlius Seuerinus Boethius (c. 480 - c. 525) translated and wrote commentaries on most of Aristotle's logical works. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Total St Gall : Medieval Monastery as a Disciplinary Institution

    Författare :Wojtek Jezierski; Olle Ferm; Gabriela Bjarne Larsson; Hans Jacob Orning; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; ‘total institution’; Casus sancti Galli; St Gall; Ekkehard IV; Erving Goffman; Michel Foucault; power relations; stigma; subjectivity; Benedictine monasticism; early Middle Ages; Asylums; monastery; Church history; Kyrkohistoria; Sociology; Sociologi; historia; History;

    Sammanfattning : How much was a medieval monastery reminiscent of a modern prison? Or insane asylum? And if it was in the least - what can such a metaphor tell us about power relations structuring the life of medieval monks?The purpose of this compilation thesis (sammanläggningsavhandling) is to render explicit and analyze relations of power and modes of control comprising the social tissue of early medieval Benedictine monasteries. By bringing up the examples of tenth- and eleventh-century monasteries of St Gall, Fulda, and Bury St Edmunds, this thesis seeks to understand what power was in medieval monasteries, how and between whom it was exercised, what and how it affected in terms of collective and individual identity. LÄS MER

  5. 4. The voice of the people? : Supplications submitted to the Swedish Diet in the Age of Liberty, 1719–1772

    Författare :Martin Almbjär; Svante Norrhem; Peter Lindström; Nils Erik Villstrand; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Age of Liberty; audit; Diet of Estates; early modern state formation; eighteenth century; institutions; national debt; parliamentary committees; petitions; political participation; public office; supplications; taxes; trade privileges; Supreme Court; welfare; historia; History;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation is devoted to the study of who used the formal channels of interaction in the early modern era and why. It examines the full range of the political conversation in early modern Sweden, as seen in the supplications to the Diet in the Age of Liberty (1719–1772), and more specifically the supplications submitted to the parliamentary committee tasked with handling them, the Screening Deputation. LÄS MER