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Theories of the Universe in the Late Eighteenth Century
Together with D’Alembert we may take cosmology to mean “la science qui discourt sur le monde,” that is to say in the language of the enlightenment,...
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Valid Materialism: A Western Offering to Hocking’s “Civilization in the Singular”
“Today, we seem to stand on the threshold of a new thing,” Professor Hocking wrote a decade ago: “civilization in the singular.” 1 It is too early to...
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Introduction: A New University and the Challenge of the New Science
Despite the recent and continuing controversy concerning the proper role of the universities, it is still widely agreed that among their functions,...
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The Legacy of Valencia (1492–1509)
Juan Luis Vives was born in Valencia, Spain, the sixth of March, 1492, a year Spanish scholars refer to as the annus mirabilis. And indeed amazing...
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The Experience of Death
What is the meaning of death to the human being as a person? The question admits of no conclusion, for we are dealing with the very mystery of man,...
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From Bruges to Louvain (1512–1523)
It is difficult to say whether Vives himself was aware of the significant part which the Netherlands were to play in the cultural history of Europe...
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Select bibliography of translations of philosophical works by al-Kindī, al-Fārābī, Avicenna, Ibn-Bāğğa, and Averroes
This is a bibliography by a non-Arabist for non-Arabists. It does not include any of the medical works of any of these authors and it also omits...
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The Historical Writings
Soon after his inauguration Schiller started his regular lectures on world history. These lectures were not geared to a particular audience in front...
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The Student of Montaigu (1509–1512)
In the fall of 1509 Juan Luis Vives arrived in Paris. He was at that time seventeen years old, probably one or two years older than most of his...
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Vives on Education
The history of pedadogy and the history of thought are inseparably bound together. Educational reformers are thinkers in their own right, or at least...
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Tambaram Twenty-Five Years After
The title of my Tambaram essay, “Between Hocking and Kraemer,” is a kind of shorthand. It may reveal its meaning better if I compare it with the...
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Copernicus in Spain
The introduction of Copernican ideas into Spain, has, until now, been the subject of a brief article by Father Antonio Romañá Pujo S. J.1 (noted in...
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Christianity
In spite of the sometimes seemingly unrealistic problems within the present study, it is basically an inquiry into the realities close to earth; it...
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Scepticism and the Study of History
During the two centuries prior to the publication of David Hume’s History of England, the attitude of the sceptical thinkers regarding the study of...
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Godlessness
To an ancient man all things were holy: fields, creeks, sky, fire, and all realities around him. This was so because the ancient or mythical culture...
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In the Steps of Erasmus and Beyond
The second half of this book deals with the thought of Juan Luis Vives. Our task is not an easy one, partly because of the encyclopedic wealth of...
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The Life
The only previously published biographies of Simon Tyssot de Patot have appeared in articles by Lanson, van Slee, and Valkhoff.5 Lanson derived his...
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Three Averroistic Problems
In his Great Commentary to Aristotle’s De anima Averroes1 teaches that there are three intelligences — the productive (he says: agens), the material...