In the paper a little known large 4-folio map of the territory of the later US states Virginia and Maryland is introduced. The map, which was surveyed and composed between 1660 and 1670, is exceptional from several po...In the paper a little known large 4-folio map of the territory of the later US states Virginia and Maryland is introduced. The map, which was surveyed and composed between 1660 and 1670, is exceptional from several points of view: the vast impenetrable territory covering a strip of land of about 700 × 400 km was mapped by one man, Augustin Herrman “Bohemian” (as he called himself) and by his crew during 10-year surveying and trigonometric measurements. It seems that this extraordinary map belongs among the first geodetically surveyed maps of the American territory. In 1960 altogether 5 copies of the map, complete in four parts, were known in British, French and American Libraries and map collections.展开更多
In this paper,we are looking at a philosophical approach on creation and evolution.We try to search for the possibility of an evolution in Augustine theological thought and Thomas Aquinas’works.St Augustine thinks th...In this paper,we are looking at a philosophical approach on creation and evolution.We try to search for the possibility of an evolution in Augustine theological thought and Thomas Aquinas’works.St Augustine thinks that Earth received from God a capacity to produce plants,Thomas Aquinas claims a progressive development of plants’species in their characteristics.Concerning animals,Augustine thinks that water received the capacity to produce fishes and marine animals.In his worldview,he takes account of spontaneous generation.During the modern period,the theologians no more understood perspectives about a progressive creation:God created each living species in a Linnaean sense.An Augustinian rereading removes the opposition between evolution and creation.展开更多
In Confessions,Augustine positively recollects three ascensions that he had experienced ten years earlier.Searching himself in memory,he makes self an object of rational study and thus manifests that he is still influ...In Confessions,Augustine positively recollects three ascensions that he had experienced ten years earlier.Searching himself in memory,he makes self an object of rational study and thus manifests that he is still influenced by neo-Platonism even after he had been in the Catholic church for a decade.The ascension of self is in the high part of the soul,which fittingly returns to the Intellect and in turn to the One for an ultimate reunion,since the soul descends from the Intellect which emanates from the One.Among the faculties of the soul,Augustine focuses on memory,which is an internal seeing and hearing.In Christianity,the salvation of a sinner comes from the indwelling Holy Spirit.In contrast to the Enneads by Plotinus,this paper analyzes unsolved problems of Augustine,such as saving faith and a distinction between the intelligible world and the spiritual world.展开更多
The analysis outlines John Deely’s commitment to Augustine’s implications for a valueladen semiotic understanding of postmodern inquiry.Deely’s value-laden project centers on semiotic signification and semiosis.His...The analysis outlines John Deely’s commitment to Augustine’s implications for a valueladen semiotic understanding of postmodern inquiry.Deely’s value-laden project centers on semiotic signification and semiosis.His work announces the inexorable link between semiotic theory and the search for understanding that matters.He uplifts the importance of engaging signs via context and relational association,uniting ethics and semiotics.Deely’s orientation shaped his inquiry on biosemiotics,semioethics,and ongoing discussions of Augustine.My inquiry centers on Deely’s explication of value-laden signs that illuminate Augustine’s understanding of existence,comprehended as God’s world.Thus,I explore Deely’s value-laden semiotic mission through an examination of Augustine’s God-filled background narrative assumption.展开更多
文摘In the paper a little known large 4-folio map of the territory of the later US states Virginia and Maryland is introduced. The map, which was surveyed and composed between 1660 and 1670, is exceptional from several points of view: the vast impenetrable territory covering a strip of land of about 700 × 400 km was mapped by one man, Augustin Herrman “Bohemian” (as he called himself) and by his crew during 10-year surveying and trigonometric measurements. It seems that this extraordinary map belongs among the first geodetically surveyed maps of the American territory. In 1960 altogether 5 copies of the map, complete in four parts, were known in British, French and American Libraries and map collections.
文摘In this paper,we are looking at a philosophical approach on creation and evolution.We try to search for the possibility of an evolution in Augustine theological thought and Thomas Aquinas’works.St Augustine thinks that Earth received from God a capacity to produce plants,Thomas Aquinas claims a progressive development of plants’species in their characteristics.Concerning animals,Augustine thinks that water received the capacity to produce fishes and marine animals.In his worldview,he takes account of spontaneous generation.During the modern period,the theologians no more understood perspectives about a progressive creation:God created each living species in a Linnaean sense.An Augustinian rereading removes the opposition between evolution and creation.
文摘In Confessions,Augustine positively recollects three ascensions that he had experienced ten years earlier.Searching himself in memory,he makes self an object of rational study and thus manifests that he is still influenced by neo-Platonism even after he had been in the Catholic church for a decade.The ascension of self is in the high part of the soul,which fittingly returns to the Intellect and in turn to the One for an ultimate reunion,since the soul descends from the Intellect which emanates from the One.Among the faculties of the soul,Augustine focuses on memory,which is an internal seeing and hearing.In Christianity,the salvation of a sinner comes from the indwelling Holy Spirit.In contrast to the Enneads by Plotinus,this paper analyzes unsolved problems of Augustine,such as saving faith and a distinction between the intelligible world and the spiritual world.
文摘The analysis outlines John Deely’s commitment to Augustine’s implications for a valueladen semiotic understanding of postmodern inquiry.Deely’s value-laden project centers on semiotic signification and semiosis.His work announces the inexorable link between semiotic theory and the search for understanding that matters.He uplifts the importance of engaging signs via context and relational association,uniting ethics and semiotics.Deely’s orientation shaped his inquiry on biosemiotics,semioethics,and ongoing discussions of Augustine.My inquiry centers on Deely’s explication of value-laden signs that illuminate Augustine’s understanding of existence,comprehended as God’s world.Thus,I explore Deely’s value-laden semiotic mission through an examination of Augustine’s God-filled background narrative assumption.
