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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      June 2012
      April 1999
      ISBN:
      9781139164139
      9780521583503
      9780521586771
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139164139
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.59kg, 314 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.47kg, 316 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History, Philosophy Texts, Philosophy, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
      Series:
      Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
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    Subjects:
    History, Philosophy Texts, Philosophy, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
    Series:
    Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
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    Philip Melanchthon (1497–1560), humanist and colleague of Martin Luther, is best known for his educational reforms, for which he earned the title Praeceptor Germaniae (the Teacher of Germany). His most influential form of philosophical writing was the academic oration, and this volume, first published in 1999, presents a large and wide-ranging selection of his orations and textbook prefaces translated into English. They set out his views on the distinction between faith and reason, the role of philosophy in education, moral philosophy, natural philosophy, astronomy and astrology, and the importance of philosophy to a true Christian, as well as his views on Classical philosophical authorities such as Plato and Aristotle and on contemporaries such as Erasmus and Luther. Powerfully influential in their time, inspiring many Protestant students to study philosophy, mathematics and natural philosophy, they illuminate the relationship between Renaissance and Reformation thought.

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