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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458629603321

Autore

Edelheit Amos, Ph.D

Titolo

Scholastic Florence : moral psychology in the Quattrocento / / Amos Edelheit

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

90-04-26628-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (317 p.)

Collana

Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, , 0920-8607 ; ; Volume 230

Disciplina

195

Soggetti

Psychology and philosophy - Italy - Florence - History

Renaissance - Italy - Florence

Scholars - Italy - Florence - History

Humanists - Italy - Florence - History

Philosophers - Italy - Florence - History

Humanism - Italy - Florence - History

Ethics - Italy - Florence - History

Christian ethics - Italy - Florence - History

Philosophy, Renaissance

Electronic books.

Florence (Italy) Intellectual life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Scholasticism in a Florentine Setting? -- 1 A Portrait of a ‘Thomist’ in the Late-Fifteenth Century -- 2 A Renaissance Discourse on Evil -- 3 The Psychology of the Voluntary Act of Penitence -- 4 A Discussion of Conscience, Cognition and Will -- 5 A Debate Concerning the Intellect and the Will -- 6 A Theory of Will, Human Dignity, and Freedom -- 7 On the Importance of Self-Reflexivity -- 8 A Renaissance Discourse on Love -- Conclusion: A New Renaissance Anthropology? -- Bibliography -- Index Nominum et Rerum.

Sommario/riassunto

An unfamiliar portrait of Renaissance Florence is depicted in this volume where we find not only some celebrated humanist-oriented



thinkers but also their scholastic friends and rivals, discussing matters pertaining to moral psychology. The rationale here is to illuminate the shadowlands of Renaissance philosophy and the intellectual history of late 15th-century Italy by bringing into focus the important role played by scholastic thinkers in the Italian Renaissance. Questions and problems regarding e.g. the intellect and the will, evil and conscience, cognition and love are treated through detailed accounts of debates and texts which were rarely discussed previously.