Tag: Moderns

Free Download Roger French, "Ancient and Moderns in the Medical Sciences "
English | ISBN: 0860788342 | 2000 | 300 pages | EPUB, PDF | 4 MB + 82 MB
The theme of this book is the growth of the European tradition of medical theory, from the early Middle Ages until its collapse in the seventeenth century. Central to this tradition were ancient texts and the respect accorded to the ancients themselves by the moderns, the teachers and practitioners of medicine of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The chapters examine how the ancient texts formed a resource for later medical men and how as a consequence they were sought out, translated and used. Three matters receive particular attention: the classroom culture by which the teachers perpetuated their pupil’s faith in the ancient texts; the use of learning and argumentation by which the university doctors secured their reputation; and medical astrology as a prognostic technique. The story ends when the faith that had been given to Aristotle and Galen, and which held the medical tradition together, was broken, partly by the new natural philosophy and partly by the discovery of the circulation of the blood.

Free Download Paul Michael Kurtz, "Moses Among the Moderns: German Constructions of Biblical Law, 1750-1930 "
English | ISBN: 9004691766 | 2024 | 276 pages | PDF | 13 MB
A historic lawgiver and founder of an ancient nation, Moses was powerful and pivotal in the imagination of modern Germany. The late eighteenth to early twentieth century was an intense period of religious controversy, especially on ‘the Jewish question’, with new models for understanding faith, science, and the past. This volume focuses on the identification of Jewish law, both Pentateuch and Talmud, with the figure of Moses to trace the fascinations and anxieties of the Bible in modern culture. Through diverse perspectives, it examines the representations and appropriations of Moses as a father of Judaism and framer of European civilization.

Free Download James H. Thrall, "Mystic Moderns: Agency and Enchantment in Evelyn Underhill, May Sinclair, and Mary Webb"
English | ISBN: 1498583776 | 2020 | 314 pages | EPUB, PDF | 7 MB + 5 MB
Mystic Moderns examines the responses of three British authors-Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941), May Sinclair (1863-1946), and Mary Webb (1881-1927)-to the emerging modernity of the long early twentieth-century moment encompassing the First World War. As they explored divergent but overlapping understandings of what mystical experience might be, these authors rejected claims that modernity’s celebration of the secular and rational left no place for the mystical; rather, they countered, sensitivity to a greater reality could both establish and validate personal agency, and was integral to their identities as modern women. Their preoccupations with the dynamism of human connection drew on prevailing ideas of "vital energy" or "life force" developed by Arthur Schopenhauer and Henri Bergson in ways that channeled modernity’s erotic energy of change. By using their fiction to describe new, self-authenticating forms of mysticism separate from either the prevailing orthodoxy of establishment Christianity or the extreme heterodoxy of their era’s enthusiasm for paranormal experimentation, they also contributed to the rise of a generic concept of "spirituality." Mystic Moderns thus offers historical perspective on contemporary claims for self-constructed, non-institutional spiritual experience associated with the claim "I’m spiritual, not religious."

Free Download Michael Chase, Stephen R. L. Clark, Michael McGhee, "Philosophy as a Way of Life: Ancients and Moderns – Essays in Honor of Pierre Hadot"
English | 2013 | pages: 344 | ISBN: 1405161612 | EPUB | 1,3 mb
Philosophy as a Way of Life

Free Download The Rabbi’s Brain: Mystics, Moderns, and the Science of Jewish Thinking by Andrew Newberg, David Halpern, John Lescault
English | 2018 | ISBN: B07JVGTV93 | MP3@64 kbps | 14 hrs 28 mins | 397 Mb
The topic of neurotheology has garnered increasing attention in the academic, religious, scientific, and popular worlds. But there have been no attempts to explore more specifically how Jewish religious thought and experience may intersect with neurotheology. The Rabbi’s Brain engages this groundbreaking area.
Topics included relate to a neurotheological approach to the foundational beliefs that arise from the Torah and associated scriptures, Jewish learning, an exploration of the different elements of Judaism (i.e., reform, conservative, and orthodox), an exploration of specifically Jewish practices (i.e., davening, Sabbath, kosher), and a review of Jewish mysticism. The Rabbi’s Brain engages these topics in an easy-to-understand style and integrates the scientific, religious, philosophical, and theological aspects of the emerging field of neurotheology.