Heinz Hoffmann

List of John Benjamins publications in which Heinz Hoffmann is involved.

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Hoffmann, Heinz 2006 Differenzen zwischen Augustin und Eckhart in der Beurteilung des epikureischen Lustbegriffs Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch für Antike und Mittelalter: Band 11. 2006, Mojsisch, Burkhard, Olaf Pluta und Rudolf Rehn (Hrsg.), pp. 59–72 | Article

Eckhart describes lust as a principle of life in his German Sermon 63. The examples he mentions indicate that he was inspired by his reading of Augustine’s De civitate dei. But while Augustine condemns the Epicurean concept of pleasure emphatically, Eckhart – by contrast – admits that pleasure has… read more