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Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits
Luther's reformation and Shopenauer's doctrine are both metaphysical
Luther's reformation shows that in his century all the impulses to freedom of the spirit were still uncertain, lacking in vigor, and immature. Science could not yet rear her head. Indeed the whole Renaissance appears but as an early spring smothered in snow. But even in the…
Medieval Semiotics (meier-oeser, Stephan)
A turning point in the history of semiotics
Despite all the internal ruptures and inconsistencies, Augustine's doctrine of sign is based on a definition of the sign that, for the first time, intends to embrace both the natural indexical sign and the conventional linguistic sign as species of an all-embracing generic…
Boetius and augustine are the main sources of ideas for medieval scholars
The core set of ideas and doctrines from which medieval philosophers developed their semiotic theories was provided to them mainly by two late ancient authors. Besides Boethius (480–528), who transmitted Aristotelian semantics to the Latin Middle Ages, Augustine's (354–430)…