Pekka Kärkkäinen

Travel guides

pakarkka@helsinki.fi — Wed, 02 May 2012 17:59:18 +0000

Evangelische Verlagsanstalt has started a series of travel guides focusing on the Protestant Reformation in German-speaking countries. Volumes on Wittenberg and Erfurt has just recently been added to the series, which is entitled “Orte der Reformation”.

Recent additions on pages

pakarkka@helsinki.fi — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:08:48 +0000

Several new items were added on psychology, ethics and polics -pages. See comments for details.

Goulart, Morum philosophia historica ; ex probatis scriptoribus collecta

pakarkka@helsinki.fi — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:17:59 +0000

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Agostino Nifo De intellectu | BRILL

pakarkka@helsinki.fi — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:15:15 +0000

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Commentaries on Sentences

pakarkka@helsinki.fi — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:02:41 +0000

I have set up a new wiki-based site on the commentaries of Peter Lombard’s Sentences. The site focuses on the texts, which are available in any electronic form on the internet, including digitized images of early printings and manuscripts, as well as modern editions in digital form. Note also the new website for Adam Wodeham Critical Edition Project.

“Medieval and Renaissance psychology” has moved

pakarkka@helsinki.fi — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:56:30 +0000

The page “Medieval and Renaissance Psychological Sources on the Internet” has moved under this blog (see the link in the sidebar). The page also includes several new titles. From now on, additions will be noted in the comments on the … Continue reading →

On Luther’s teachers in Erfurt

pakarkka@helsinki.fi — Tue, 19 May 2009 08:16:36 +0000

See this blog post for more information on my lecture on the Aristotelian psychology in late medieval Erfurt.

Jussi Varkemaa on Summenhart

pakarkka@helsinki.fi — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:27:56 +0000

Jussi Varkemaa, a theologian from Helsinki, has finished his doctoral thesis on late fourteenth century theologian Conrad Summenhart. The topic is Summenhart’s theory of individual rights and its medieval background. Summenhart, who was one of first professors theology in the University of Tübingen. Summenhart has been considered as an important figure in the development of modern theories of rights. Until now Summenhart’s views have been studied only superficially, but Varkemaa discusses them thoroughly and situates them appropriately in the context of late medieval discourse. For more information, see the abstract of the dissertation here (scroll down for an English version).

Updates in “Medieval and Renaissance psychology” -page

pakarkka@helsinki.fi — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:14:31 +0000

I have reorganised the page on medieval and Renaissance psychological sources putting the items in an alphabetical order. A link to Agostino Nifo’s De anima was also added.

Research seminar in Helsinki

pakarkka@helsinki.fi — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:27:31 +0000

From the website of the research group “Philosophical Psychology, Morality and Politics”:

Spring 2009

Friday, 30 January, 12-15 (Auditorium IX, Main Building, Unioninkatu 34, 3rd floor)

Imagination from Aquinas to Hobbes
Pekka Kärkkäinen
Juhana Lemetti

Friday, 27 February, 12-15 (Auditorium IX, Main Building, Unioninkatu 34, 3rd floor)

Madness and Morality
Vesa Hirvonen
Timo Kaitaro

Friday, 20 March, 12-15 (Lecture room 6, Aleksanterinkatu 7, 6th floor)
Christopher Shields (Oxford), Aquinas’s moral psychology

Thursday, 16 – Friday, 17 April

Sources and resources of political life in early-modern Europe
Quentin Skinner (keynote speaker), Ronald Asch, Martin van Gelderen, Mark Goldie, Catherine Larrère, John Robertson, Richard Serjeantson, Sari Kivistö, Virpi Mäkinen, Sami-Juhani Savonius-Wroth, Mikko Tolonen.

Friday,15 May, 12-15 (Auditorium XI, Main Building, Unioninkatu 34, 3rd floor)

Tobias Hoffmann (CUA), Free decision in Aquinas
Taina Holopainen

The seminar is open.