englischThe question of the human being is central to pedagogy, as all pedagogical thoughts and actions are based on anthropological ideas. At present, anthropocentric understandings of the self and the world of the human being are generally influential. This work scrutinises these both within [...]
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englischWhereas early modern cathedral chapters have mostly been studied as electoral bodies of prince-bishops and noble corporations, this study examines the administrative and governmental practices of the Bamberg cathedral chapter from the perspective of the history of knowledge. Its active [...]
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englischThe question of the human being is central to pedagogy, as all pedagogical thoughts and actions are based on anthropological ideas. At present, anthropocentric understandings of the self and the world of the human being are generally influential. This work scrutinises these both within [...]
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englischThe book presents six very different source texts on time and progress (four in Ottoman Turkish and two in Arabic). The accompanying commentaries examine in different ways the transformation of concepts and semantics, ideology and rhetoric, which changed significantly in these regions during [...]
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englischWith "Erste Erde", Raoul Schrott has presented a text that attempts to grasp the entire body of knowledge about the world - and thus inscribed himself in the tradition of polymaths such as Alexander von Humboldt, who pursued a similar goal with his "Cosmos" in the 19th century. Schrott thus [...]
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englischThe book presents six very different source texts on time and progress (four in Ottoman Turkish and two in Arabic). The accompanying commentaries examine in different ways the transformation of concepts and semantics, ideology and rhetoric, which changed significantly in these regions during [...]
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englischWhereas early modern cathedral chapters have mostly been studied as electoral bodies of prince-bishops and noble corporations, this study examines the administrative and governmental practices of the Bamberg cathedral chapter from the perspective of the history of knowledge. Its active [...]
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englischBetween the age of confessionalization and the comprehensive edicts of tolerance of the late 18th century lies a period in which research emphasises the role of the confession in very different ways. The concept of tolerance existed in the intellectual history, but the regulations of the [...]
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englischThe book deals with the discourse of a spiritual medicine in Arabic-Islamic sources of the pre-modern period. The focus is on a 13th-century writing: "The Cheering of the Soul" (Mufarriḥ an-nafs) by the Damascene physician Ibn Qāḍī Baʿalbakk, a scholar in the tradition of Ibn Sinā. Based on [...]
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englischThis volume explores the concepts of paradise in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It reveals how they are portrayed as alternative and aesthetically significant realms compared to the current realities, what role they play in present-day culture and political ideals and how they can be [...]
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