A history of balance, 1250-1375 : the emergence of a new model of equilibrium and its impact on thought /

The ideal of balance and its association with what is ordered, just, and healthful remained unchanged throughout the medieval period. The central place allotted to balance in the workings of nature and society also remained unchanged. What changed within the culture of scholasticism, between approxi...

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Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
Kaye, Joel
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Zusammenfassung:
The ideal of balance and its association with what is ordered, just, and healthful remained unchanged throughout the medieval period. The central place allotted to balance in the workings of nature and society also remained unchanged. What changed within the culture of scholasticism, between approximately 1280 and 1360, was the emergence of a greatly expanded sense of what balance is and can be. In this groundbreaking history of balance, Joel Kaye reveals that this new sense of balance and its potentialities became the basis of a new model of equilibrium, shaped and shared by the most acute and innovative thinkers of the period. Through a focus on four disciplines - scholastic economic thought, political thought, medical thought, and natural philosophy - Kaye's book reveals that this new model of equilibrium opened up striking new vistas of imaginative and speculative possibility, making possible a profound re-thinking of the world and its workings.
Umfang:
1 online resource (ix, 519 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Anmerkungen:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Anmerkungen:
English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781139894463
1139894463
9781139698917
1139698915
9781139861939
113986193X
9781139860840
1139860844
9781139236225
1139236229
9781139865128
1139865129
9781139870856
1139870858
9781139868709
1139868705
9781139863001
1139863002
Schlagworte:
Philosophy, Medieval.
Harmony (Philosophy)
Equilibrium.
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